gegradueer<\/a> en \u2019n verdere tien verwerf na verwagting eersdaags hulle kwalifikasies.<\/p>\n\u201cDie konferensie was die afsluiting van \u2018Indexing Transformation\u2019, \u2019n Mellon-gefinansierde projek wat die Departement Sosiologie en Sosiale Antropologie die afgelope sewe jaar bedryf het,\u201d s\u00ea prof Bernard Dubbeld, een van die skeppers van die program. \u201cFinansiering is aanvanklik vir vyf jaar toegeken, maar as gevolg van die pandemie kon ons die projek oor sewe jaar voltooi.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens prof Dubbeld is 20 navorsingsreferate by die konferensie aangebied. In teenstelling met wat gewoonlik by sulke konferensies gebeur, het elke referaat heelwat gesprek aan die gang gesit, wat dieper omgang met die navorsing bevorder het. Die interaksie tussen huidige studente en alumni van verskillende jare was veral inspirerend, en \u2019n weerspie\u00ebling van die eweknieleerdoelwitte van die program.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het vier van ons graduati ingebring, naamlik Angelique Michaels (PhD, Universiteit van Manchester), Esethu Monakali (PhD, Universiteit van Lund), Vanessa Mpatlanyane (PhD, Universiteit van Kaapstad) en Adriaan Steyn (PhD, Harvard-universiteit). Handri Walters, \u2019n US-dosent, was ook \u2019n kernrolspeler by die konferensie en het met onlangse magistergraduati en huidige beursstudente geskakel. Daarbenewens het die program drie sprekers van buite die Departement ingesluit, naamlik proff Peter Redfield, Karl von Holdt en Ronelle Carolissen,\" s\u00ea prof Dubbeld.<\/p>\n
Die temas wat konferensiegangers bespreek het, het \u2019n wye verskeidenheid sosiologiese en antropologiese terreine ingesluit, waaronder onderwyservarings, sosiale mobiliteit, stedelike marginaliteit, ontwikkeling en die beperkings daarvan, en gesprekke oor transformasie in verskeie sektore, wat kwessies soos ras en infrastruktuur aangeroer het.<\/p>\n
Vanessa Mpatlanyane het haar navorsing oor swart middelklasfamilies in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, voorgel\u00ea. Haar werk, wat deel uitmaak van haar doktorale navorsing, handel oor tussengenerasiedinamiek in families. Vir haar was dit bevredigend om \u2019n verband te kon l\u00ea tussen haar navorsing en die algemener temas van transformasie, veerkragtigheid en toekomsgerigte denke.<\/p>\n
Volgens Mpatlanyane was een van die hoogtepunte van \u201cIndexing Transformation\u201d die ondersteunende akademiese gemeenskap wat daardeur tot stand gekom het. \u201cDit was beslis \u2019n hoogtepunt om te sien hoeveel die projek studente gehelp het, nie net in hulle studie nie, maar ook deur \u2019n gemeenskap te bou en nadenkende akademieskap te bevorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Die konferensie het nie net akademiese prestasies gevier nie, maar ook kritiese denke en groei aangemoedig. Mpatlanyane s\u00ea: \"Die panele het op verskillende maniere nagedink oor die vereiste van transformasie sowel binne as buite die Universiteit. Dit het ons almal intellektueel gestimuleer en uitgedaag, en diep onder die indruk gebring van nougesette akademieskap. Dit is beslis iets wat gevier moet word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angelique Michaels expressed how it marked a significant milestone in her academic journey. Attending the conference proved to be a momentous occasion for Michaels, offering a chance to reflect on her academic path and connect with the broader context of social and institutional transformation.<\/p>\n
“The ‘Indexing Transformation’s’ closing conference has been the highlight of my academic career to date,” said Michaels, emphasising the depth of the impact the event had on her. She highlighted the unique opportunity the conference provided to not only reflect on individual academic trajectories but also to discover common threads within the research of former and current students, as well as professors from diverse disciplines who all shared a common interest in societal transformation.<\/p>\n
A significant theme that emerged from the conference was the importance of representation, particularly the inclusion of historically marginalised perspectives within curricula, institutional climates, bureaucratic processes, and systems of evaluation, said Michaels. Prof Ronelle Carolissen, from SU\u2019s Department of Psychology, emphasised the violence inherent in the absence of self-reflection within the institutions individuals affiliate with, and this perspective resonated throughout the discussions at the conference.<\/p>\n
Michaels noted, “The conference was a reminder that a commitment to the kind of change and redress that the ‘Indexing Transformation’ initiative advocates, calls for an awareness of this relationship between the institution and the students it cultivates and primes.”<\/p>\n
Michaels underlined the significance of the conference as a platform for introspection and change within academia. She praised the University’s receptivity to transformation, suggesting that for meaningful change to occur, institutions themselves must undergo the same process of transformation that they advocate for. The conference’s impact left attendees invigorated and inspired to contribute to societal change. “The experience foregrounded the pivotal role that critical engagement and intergenerational conversations play in attempts at redress, and in sustaining and working towards a legacy we can be proud of”, she said.<\/p>\n
Namate \u201cIndexing Transformation\u201d einde se kant toe staan, is dit duidelik dat die program \u2019n blywende impak op die US se Departement Sosiologie en Sosiale Antropologie gehad het: Dit het \u2019n nuwe geslag navorsers toegerus om die samelewing deur hulle navorsing en insigte te transformeer, en het kritiese en nadenkende akademieskap aangemoedig.<\/p>\n
Die program loop later vanjaar ten einde.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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