Deliberations (with educators) on that made fragile: Academic commemoration of #Fallists’ calls for decolonisation a decade on

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In what ways may, and do, academic educators commemorate the radical calls of #Fallist movement a decade on? In the concept note for the University of the Witwatersrand’s academic development conference, it is posited that there is virtue in remembrance through educational practice.

This invited keynote reflects, firstly, on such possibilities of recollection for historical consciousness and praxes within the ‘post’-colonial academy. Secondly, it connects with transnational scholarship on why the decolonisation of ‘knowledge’ (single) within the university matters, to discuss what this means for knowledges (plural) made fragile. As a deliberation for and with educators, it recognises the intellectual authority of educators in academia, and affirms their individual and collective political agency to engender counter-hegemonic and reclamatory transformations through their professional freedoms, public intellectualism and social engagement.

The talk draws primarily from “Why decolonising “knowledge” matters: Deliberations for educators on that made fragile”, a book chapter in ‘Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures’ edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin (2023, Open Book Publishers, https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0363.05).

Period	09 Sept 2025
Event title	Echoes of Protest, Visions of Praxis: Shaping Equitable Futures Through Learning and Teaching
Event type	Conference
Location	Johannesburg, South AfricaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International