The University of Limpopo’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof. Mahlo Mokgalong, will host another instalment of ‘The Executive Dialogue’, which promises to be an engaging and insightful event. During this session, Prof. Mokgalong will be in conversation with Prof. Saleem Badat, focusing on the theme: “The Significance of Institutional Heritage and Relevance in a Contemporary Society.”
About the Guest
Saleem Badat is a Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of the Free State. His academic career includes serving as the director of the Education Policy Unit at UWC, as the first CEO of the CHE, as vice-chancellor of Rhodes University, and as the first Program Director of International Higher Education & Strategic Projects at the Mellon Foundation in New York. Combining critical theory, scholarship, and activism, Saleem’s concerns are structure and agency, reproduction and transformation, equity, redress, and social justice in and through universities, and the decolonization and transformation of universities. His books include Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice (2023), The Forgotten People: Political Banishment under Apartheid (2012), Black Man, You Are on Your Own (2009) and Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid (2000). He is the author of some 65 book chapters, journal articles, and research reports, and over 40 magazine and media opinion pieces. He heads the Research Project on the Histories of Universities in South Africa (RPHUSA) and is working on a book on the history of universities in South Africa.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Time: 10h00
Venue: Accountancy White House
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