Full Programme

Wednesday 7th August 2024

Any changes to the published programme are listed for ease of reference here.

08:30 – 09:30Registration  
Venue: Law & Psychology Building Foyer (See Map: #12)
09:30 – 10:30Opening Ceremony & Welcome  
Venue: LP Lecture Theatre

Formal welcome to Edge Hill University from Dr John Cater, Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University

Sharon Todd, INPE President, Maynooth University  
Amanda Fulford, Conference Organizer, Edge Hill University  
Nuraan Davids, Programme Chair, Stellenbosch University    
10:30 – 11:00Tea & coffee  
11:00 – 12:30Keynote Address 1
Chair: Renato Huarte Cuéllar 
Venue: LP Lecture Theatre

Dr Rowena Azada-Palacios
Can we teach philosophically about unspeakable human suffering?
 

Respondent: Amanda Fulford 
12:30 – 13:30Lunch  
13:30 – 15:00  Parallel sessions 1:  

1. Concurrent Papers
Chair: David Locke
Venue: LP 0.09

Jinxi Xu, Cambridge University
The normalisation power of Commensuration: How Did University Ranking and Rating Programmes Manipulate Universities?  

Sharon Todd, Maynooth University
Black Swan Pedagogy: Remnant Ecologies and Navigating the Difficulties of Disruption and Loss Beyond Modernity/Coloniality  


A. Working Papers
Chair: Stefan Ramaekers
Venue: LP 0.30

Elizabeth Meade, Maynooth University
Reawakening our Ethical Freedom; Forging a sense of Belonging through Community of Philosophical Inquiry  

Nele Kuhlmann, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Learning to Talk to the “Other” – Postfoundational Perspectives on Emotions in Argumentation Trainings against Right-Wing Populism  
15:00 – 16:30Parallel sessions 2:  

2. Concurrent Papers
Chair: Sharon Todd 
Venue: LP 0.09

Ruth Heilbronn, UCL Institute of Education
What does it mean to decolonise the curriculum: is it possible?  

Halil Ibrahim Arpa , University of Bayreuth
Reconsidering education with postcolonial stories: A subversion of historical narratives  


B. Working Papers
Chair: Elizabeth Meade
Venue: LP 0.30

Saulat Pervez ,International Institute of Islamic Thought
Importance of Language in Centering Aims of Education in a Postcolonial World  

Nopparat Ruankool, University College London
Shatter Zone of the Mind: Education Beyond the Epistemic Boundary of Thainess  
 2. Symposium/Round table
Chair:  Carl Anders Säfström  
Venue: LP 0.10

Sarah Stitzlein,University of Cincinnati; Amy Shuffelton, Loyola University Chicago
It Feels True to Us: Belief Formation, Political Polarization, and Controversy
16:45 – onwardsWelcome Reception  Sponsored by Ethics and Education
18:00 – 19:30Film Screening of ‘Monsieur Lazhar’ (optional)  

Thursday 8th August 2024

09:00 – 10:30Parallel sessions 3  

3. Concurrent Papers
Chair: Thushari Welikala
Venue: LP 0.09

Lynda Stone, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
African American Borrowings for Democracy, Within Histories and Politics of Racism, Colonialism, and White Supremacy  

Noemi Bartolucci
The Place of Memory: race, belonging and Bildung in the North American African diaspora  


C. Working Papers
Chair:  David Lewin
Venue: LP 0.30

Hirotaka Sugita, Hiroshima University
Beyond Person-Centric Education: Towards Postcolonial Reflections on the Dispositif of the Person from Japanese Indigenous Insights  

Maria Casas Banares, University of Madrid
Being above to be. Education and cultural identity  


D. Working Papers
Chair:  Renato Huarte Cuéllar
Venue: LP 0.29

Joff P. N. Bradley, Teikyo University
On the pedagogy of anarchism: ignorance, indecision, and the inexplicable  

Judith Terblanche, Milpark Education
Transformative learning journeys: The be-in(g) of the teacher-self as a catalyst for belonging  
 3. Symposium/Round Table
Chair:  Kai Horsthemke
Venue: LP 0.10

Janet Orchard, University of Bristol; Nuraan Davids, Stellenbosch University
Beyond Epistemic Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Global perspectives on philosophy in teacher education  
10:30 – 11:00Tea & coffee  
11:00 – 12:30Keynote Address 2: The Terence H. McLaughlin lecture
Chair: Nuraan Davids
Venue: LP Lecture Theatre

Prof Michalinos Zembylas
Recovering Anticolonialism as an Intellectual and Political Project in Philosophy
of Education  

Respondent: Sharon Todd 
12:30 – 13:30Lunch  
1400 – 19:30  Cultural event  

Friday 9th August 2024

09:00 – 10:30Parallel sessions 4  

4. Concurrent Papers
Chair: Ivan Zamotkin
Venue: LP 0.09

Naoko Saito, Kyoto University
Human bonds reconsidered: Acknowledgement beyond care and social justice

Lynn de Jonghe, Cobb Institute
Truth under attack: Talking past each other in a polarized society  


E. Working Papers
Chair: Bianca Thoilliez Ruano
Venue: LP 0.30

Amanda Fulford & Naomi Hodgson, Edge Hill University
Supporting research development between north and south  

Samuel Mendonça, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Ethics, philosophical popular education for the sustainable  development  
 4. Symposium/Round Table
Chair:  Sean Henry
Venue: LP 0.10

SunInn Yun, Incheon National University; Hiromi Ozaki Toyo Eiwa University; Rowena A. Azada Palacios, Ateneo de Manila University
‘Why Fish Don’t Exist’: Postcolonial Quests for Education from Asia  
10:30 – 11:00Tea & coffee  
11.00 – 12.30    Parallel Sessions 5  

5. Concurrent Papers
Chair:  Nuraan Davids
Venue: LP 0.09

Kai Horsthemke
Epistemic reparations and postcolonial pedagogy  

Ivan Zamotkin, University of Oulu
Democratic Education as a Matter of Civility: Retrieving Arendt’s Institutionalism via Balibar”  


F. Working Papers
Chair:  Naomi Hodgson
Venue: LP 0.30

Oliver Mutanga
Navigating academic ‘migration’ in Zimbabwe: Integrating Ubuntu philosophy  

Renato Huarte Cuéllar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Is there a Philosophy of Education in Latin America?  
12:30 – 14:00Lunch & Networking  
14:00 – 15:30INPE Business Meeting  
Venue: LP 0.11
15:30 – 16:00Tea & coffee  

Ethics and Education Board Meeting (For Board Members) from 4pm
19:00 – 21:00Conference Dinner  

Saturday 10th August 2024

09:00 – 10:30Parallel Sessions 6  

6. Concurrent Papers
Chair:  Amy Shuffelton
Venue: LP 0.09

David Lewin, Strathclyde University Scotland
Does Bildung offer a singular purpose for Religion/Worldviews Education?  

Annie Schultz, Flagler College
Vestiges of Sublime Visuality: Colonial Pasts and Presence in Nature-Based Edutainment  


G. Working Papers
Chair:  Abigail Branford
Venue: LP 0.30

David Locke, Edge Hill University
Gabriel Marcel, Availability, and ‘Belonging’ in Higher Education

Thushari Welikala, St George’s University of London
A Decolonial Approach to Facilitating Cultural Connections within the University 
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & coffee  
11:00 – 12:30Parallel Sessions 7  

7. Concurrent Papers
Chair:  Samuel Mendonça
Venue: LP 0.09

Carl Anders Säfström, Maynooth University
When the Plants talk back! Teaching in response to a call from elsewhere  

Kai Wortmann & Anne Lill, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Can the Educational Actors speak – and are We able to listen? The issue of inequality between researchers and the researched  

Abigail Branford, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Empire’s Balance Sheet as Discursive Formation:  Learning about the British Empire in English Secondary Schools


H. Working Papers
Chair: Annie Schultz
Venue: LP 0.30

Fabiola Santana, Liverpool Hope University
Care as a decolonising tool in performance making practice through Cranio-sacral Therapy applications  

Naomi Hodgson, Edge Hill University; Stefan Ramaekers, KU Leuven
Insta-parenting and the promise of an inclusive community  

Bianca Thoilliez Ruano, Autonomous University of Madrid
Education as a decolonial experience? An exploratory literary investigation  
12:30 – 13:00Closing ceremony
Venue: LP Lecture Theatre

Sharon Todd, INPE President, Maynooth University  
Amanda Fulford, Conference Organizer, Edge Hill University  
Nuraan Davids, Programme Chair, Stellenbosch University
13:00 – 13:30  Lunch  
13:30 – 14:00Board to meet new President  
Venue: LP 0.11