PsySSA Webinar: A life-long journey towards justice, inspired by violence

PsySSA Webinar: A life-long journey towards justice, inspired by violence

Meet our Presenter

Ms Leonie Voster

Leonie Vorster is a researcher, writer, and award-winning strategist who is living in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is on a mission to promote the effective and just use of decisive, ethically sourced, accessible, and personally, socially, and commercially valuable information and insights.

Leonie is the author of Five Seats, a magical realism novel, and has written and presented more than seventy articles, papers, and talks since 1993. She focuses on finding the best ways to access information, drawing on evidence-based insights to write about things that matter. She has a talent for working with unusual concepts and ideas, to assess meanings, relationships, and possibilities, to systematically making logical connections, and to present information in a memorable way.

In the last thirty or so years, Leonie has completed more than four hundred research and research-based consulting assignments, in various industries, for South African and international government, semi-government, private, and not-for-profit clients.

 

She obtained her qualifications in Communication Science and Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela University, and is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a Research Psychologist.

The (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF A DECOLONIAL PROJECT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PRAXIS OF ENTANGLEMENTS & RADICAL HOPE

The (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF A DECOLONIAL PROJECT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PRAXIS OF ENTANGLEMENTS & RADICAL HOPE

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices. – Audre Lorde

When I think of myself as a theorist of resistance that is not because I think of resistance as the end or goal of political struggle, but rather its beginning, its possibility. I am interested in the relational subjective/intersubjective spring of liberation, as both adaptive and creatively oppositional. – Maria Lugones 

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe. ― Frantz Fanon

16th Annual Peace, Safety and Human Rights Memorial Lecture: Solidarities, Global Social Justice and Radical Humanism

16th Annual Peace, Safety and Human Rights Memorial Lecture: Solidarities, Global Social Justice and Radical Humanism

14th August 2021
15:00 – 17:00 (SAST)

Earn 1 Ethics & 1 General CEU!

Professor Thenjiwe MeyiwaUNISA Vice-Principal: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation, Professor Kgomotso MasemolaExecutive Dean of the College of Human Sciences and its Institute for Social and Health Sciences in collaboration with the Psychological Society of South Africa and the Pan-African Psychology Union cordially invite you to the, 16th Annual Peace, Safety and Human Rights Memorial Lecture: Solidarities, Global Social Justice and Radical Humanism

The Lecture Series seeks to highlight the new frontiers and challenges facing the culture of democracy, peace, safety and human rights in South Africa and globally.