Conference theme: "Beyond the Apartheid University? Interrogating the transformation of the South African Higher Education landscape"

The University of Fort Hare is extending an open invitation to all interested parties to attend and to read academic papers at a conference to be held at the University from 22 to 24 November 2011.

The following is a short overview of the conference theme and sub-themes. Sub-themes below are to be considered as the focus of papers, but participants should feel free to be innovative:

1. Research and the production of knowledge for a Post-Apartheid South Africa? Who is producing what and for whom?
2. The teaching and learning university vs. the research intensive university: historically disadvantaged universities (HDIs) as rural-based institutions and the “Ivy League”
3. Curricula for the millennium “born free” generations: has any progress been made towards an African identity?
4. Universities and their roles in the promotion of citizenship and the public good: what good is respect when it cannot feed an empty stomach?
5. University governance and the decline of collegiality in the face of corporatism
6. The Science System and the perpetuation of privileged positions?
7. Intellectual activism and the re-imagining of Post-Apartheid scholarship
8. Freedom of speech as a form of resistance to intellectualism
9. The professor as public intellectual and the over-simplification of complexity: a marketing ploy?
10. Re-imagining the Humanities in Post-Apartheid / Post-Colonial Higher Education

Please find attached the advertisement and registration form
For more information please contact: Prof Gideon de Wet at [email protected]  or
Mr William Awusi at [email protected].