Dina Belluigi (2019) Introducing 'At the Margins of the University'
Channel: Dina Belluigi
Date: 2019-09-30

This audio recording, with selected stills of the event and powerpoint, documents the introduction by Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi of the seminar 'At the Margins of the University: Scholarship and practice of higher education transformation and disruption in contexts of post/ conflict, inequality and oppression' on 20 September Lanyon Building North 0G/074 at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland. 

At this event, as part of School of Social Science, Education and Social Work's research focus on Peace in Societies, reflections on three intentional interventions (a roundtable; a cross-institutional academic development programme; a network) were presented by those concerned with social justice in and of the academy:
1. Building solidarity through comparative experiences of post/conflict academia: Reflections on two days of dialogue - Tom Parkinson (University of Kent) 
2. A capacity development model for women in higher education institutions in East Africa - Naomi Lumutenga (HERS-EA) 
3. Reflecting on ‘Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing Critical University Studies’ Event - Jenny Boźena du Preez (Nelson Mandela University), Dina Belluigi (QUB), and Tony Gallagher (QUB) 

Biography:
Dina Zoe Belluigi is an academic in Higher Education Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland), prior to which, she was a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University in South Africa. Her scholarship and practitioner work has circulated around how those with responsibility for representation, at first artists and then academics, bear witness to the problematics and im-possibility of such representation and such responsibility, and moreover how such agents are constructed, enabled and/or ‘schooled’ as agents of social change and critical consciousness. Dina organised this seminar, and is honoured to bring these speakers to Belfast. (Twitter: @DZBelluigi)

Funding for the event was provided by SSESW (Queen's University Belfast) and the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF).