PROF. SHARON TODD

PRESIDENT

Professor and Head of Department of Education at Maynooth University in Ireland (2014-2020). She is author of Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis and Ethical Possibilities in Education (SUNY, 2003) and Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism (Paradigm, 2009). Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Re-imagining Educational Relationships: Ethics, Politics, Practices  with M. Griffiths, M. Honerod and C. Winter (Wiley, 2014) and Philosophy East/West: Exploring the Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices with O. Ergas (Wiley, 2015). She is currently engaged in the areas of aesthetics, sensibility and art practices and their connection to educational and political transformation. Her latest book, The Touch of the Present (SUNY, 2023), engages with the role of contact and connectedness in education by understanding education as encounters, as embodied, sensory experiences.

Prof. Nuraan Davids

PROGRAMME CHAIR 2024

Nuraan Davids is a professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She is an NRF-rated researcher, whose research interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic philosophy of education and philosophy of higher education. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2020–2021). She is a co-editor of the Routledge series World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education, a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, an associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education and an editorial board member of Ethics and Education. She is a recipient of the NRF Research Excellence Award for Female Emerging Researcher (2015), an SU Distinguished Teacher Award (2017), the CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Commendation (2017), an SU Research Excellence Award (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), an SU Media Thought Leader Award (2018, 2019) and an SU Chancellor’s Award: Research (2020). Recent books (with Prof. Y. Waghid) include Academic activism in higher education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021); Teaching, friendship & humanity (Springer, 2020); and Teachers matter: Educational philosophy and authentic learning (Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Series, 2020).

Prof. Amanda Fulford

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2024

Amanda Fulford is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Associate Dean for Research and Impact at Edge Hill University in the UK. Her research interests are in philosophy of education, philosophy of higher education and public and community philosophy. Her publications include “Philosophy and Theory in Educational Research: Writing in the Margin” with Naomi Hodgson (Routledge, 2016) and “Philosophy, Education and Community: Theories Practices and Possibilities” (edited with Grace Lockrobin and Richard Smith, Bloomsbury 2020). She has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) and on the Governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Dr. Lovisa Bergdahl

PROGRAMME CHAIR 2022

I am an Associate Professor in philosophy of education at Södertörn University, and my research can be placed at the intersection of philosophy of education and general pedagogy. More particularly, I am interested in the conditions for the formative role of teachers and schools in late modern societies and the pedagogical and ethical questions this situation gives rise to in the classroom. This research area involves an interest in issues like cosmopolitan and deliberative models of education, the role of the school in creating commonality, the role of the body and the senses in educational formation, the linguistic coding of teaching. I publish in philosophy of education drawing inspiration from pedagogical theory, religious studies/theology, and feminist philosophy.

Dr. Oliver Kauffmann

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2022

Associate Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Dr. Kjetil Horn Hogstad

SECRETARY TREASURER

Lecturer, Institutt for Pedagogikk, University of Oslo

Dr. Helena Pedersen

I am Associate Professor in Education at the Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies at University of Gothenburg. I work in the Continental philosophy tradition, especially with Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis and its implications for educational thought and practice. My research focuses on critical animal studies and critical animal pedagogies, environmental and sustainability education, critical theory, and posthumanist theory and methods. My most recent book is Schizoanalysis and Animal Science Education (Bloomsbury, 2019) and I recently co-edited a Special issue, ‘Education for sustainable development in the “Capitalocene”’ for Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Dr. SeÁn Henry

Dr Seán Henry is a Lecturer in Education at Edge Hill University. His research engages with philosophy of education to reflect on the capacity of education to affect social change in the context of pluralist societies. His published and ongoing work has brought this commitment to bear on the themes of religion, theology, and education; queer theory and education; humour and the emotionality of social justice teaching; and the nature of academic work in higher education. He is currently finalising a monograph entitled Queer Thriving in Religious Schools, to be published by Routledge in 2023.

Dr. Victoria Jamieson

Having completed my doctorate in philosophy of education, I am an early career researcher within the department of Early Years Education at Edge Hill University in the UK. I am committed to furthering philosophy of education, and to supporting scholars and emerging fields of scholarship. To demonstrate this commitment, I am the Co-founder of the Philosophy of Education reading Network, which provides regular opportunities for scholars from around the world to meet together and to read and discuss key philosophical texts. This initiative strongly supports those who might otherwise not have access to thinking philosophically together. I am also co-lead for the Education for Social Justice Network at Edge Hill University. This interdisciplinary network works to provide opportunities for scholars with a broad interest in social justice as it pertains to education. It works to strengthen the research community and to develop socially just ways of doing research together.

Dr. RENATO HUARTE

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2020

Renato Huarte Cuéllar holds a BA in Philosophy and Pedagogy, an MA in Philosophy of Science, and a PhD in Philosophy from Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). He has been professor in the area of Theory, Philosophy and History of Education and Pedagogy since 2005. He is responsible of the Research Group in Philosophy of Education at the School of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM. Together with several colleagues in 2010 he founded the Latin American Association of Philosophy of Education (ALFE). He has been a Board Member of ALFE since 2010 and its President since 2015.

DR. KAI HORSTHEMKE

PROGRAMMME CHAIR 2020

Prof. Dr. Kai Horsthemke is a visiting professor in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of three monographs, The Moral Status and Rights of Animals (Porcupine Press, 2010), Animals and African Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Animal Rights Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and, together with Peggy Siyakwazi, Elizabeth Walton and Charl Wolhuter, the co-editor of the first two editions of Education Studies (Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 2013 and 2016, respectively). His new book, Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Considerations, will be published by Lexington Books in early 2021.

Dr. Veli-Mikko Kauppi

Dr. Kauppi received his PhD on John Dewey’s theory of intelligence. He is currently writing on the aesthetics and corporeality of intelligence; on imitation, education, and society on the basis of Dewey and Gabriel Tarde; on critical thinking; and on Dewey’s social philosophy. Dr. Kauppi is a member of the current executive organising committee of the annual conference of the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA), the largest national educational conference in Finland.

Juliette Clara Bertoldo

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Juliette's background is located in the arts: after obtaining a BA in Dance at the University for the Arts Codarts (Holland) in 2011, she studied filmmaking and worked as a videographer for over ten years. In parallel to her artistic practice, she graduated with an MSc in Educational Studies at the University of Glasgow (with Distinction), and in 2019, was awarded a Graduate Teaching Studentship at Maynooth University, where she began her doctoral studies. Her academic interests are interdisciplinary in nature and currently orbit around Philosophy of Education, Death Studies, Posthuman theory, and Environmental Humanities.