Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education

Maia Chankseliani
Professor Maia Chankseliani

The Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education address themes of major interest to academics, practitioners, and policy-makers working in the field of education globally.

These seminars aim to illuminate the role of education in societal development, with a focus on understanding changes in education policy, discourse, and practice, and how these changes influence individual opportunities and shape the development of educational institutions around the world. Seminars will zoom into the local and zoom out into the national and supranational spaces, flows, and influences on education.

The series was established in Trinity term 2021 as a joint initiative by the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and St Edmund Hall, and are chaired by Professor Maia Chankseliani, Fellow by Special Election in Comparative and International Education.

Seminar Programme & Registration

Wed 19 October 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speakers: Professors Robin Shields & Julia Paulson, University of Bristol, UK

Talk title (with the registration link): Toppling Statues? Complicity, Whiteness and Reckoning in Comparative and International Education

Wed 16 November 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speaker: Professor Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Department of International Education, the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Hong Kong

Talk title (with the registration link): Re-imagining Intellectual Leadership in Post-Soviet Higher Education

Wed 7 December 2022 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speaker: Professor Catherine Montgomery, Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Durham University, UK

Talk title (with the registration link): Rurality in Globalised Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives from International Doctoral Research Theses

Wed 18 January 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speaker: Professor Ricardo Sabates Aysa, University of Cambridge, UK

Talk title (with the registration link): Understanding Dynamic Influences of Educational Reform in Ethiopia

Wed 15 February 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speaker: Professor Dina Kiwan, University of Birmingham, UK

Talk title (with the registration link): Disability Under Siege: Decolonising Disability in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine

Wed 8 March 2023 at 3pm – 4pm (UK time)

Speaker: Professor Tejendra Pherali, UCL, UK

Talk title: From Perpetrator to Peacebuilder: Rethinking Education in Conflict-Affected Societies

Past Seminars

The recordings of past Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education can be accessed by following these links: