EVENT DATE
05 May 2023
EVENT TIME
13:00
LOCATION
Virtual

05 May 2023
13:00
Virtual
Jarred H. Martin is a Senior Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, where he manages the postgraduate programme in Clinical Psychology. His research and writing concentrates on critical studies of bodies, gender/s, and sex/uality/ies, with an increasing focus on kinkier forms of sexual practice, erotic subjectivity, and intimacy. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Sexuality and Gender Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA).
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She has written extensively in the areas of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, masculinities, memory and post-apartheid, gender and care, and social justice in higher education. She serves on several editorial boards, including the International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Feminist Encounters (formerly Dutch Journal of Gender Studies), NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, South African Journal of Psychology, Journal of AIDS and Behaviour, Associate Editor of the Journal of Gender, Work and Organisation, and Associate Editor on the Journal of Psychology in Africa. She is currently Principal Investigator on a 5-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation project New Imaginaries: A Critical Humanities Project on Gender and Sexual Justice.
Deevia Bhana is the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality, based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is known for the fields of study crossing the sociology of childhood and youth studies with particular focus on gender and sexuality. She has published over 146 scientific papers and book chapters. She has authored/edited 11 books, most recent of which is Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality (In press, Routledge). Her latest co-edited book is Sex and Sexualities, Sexual Health and Justice: Perspectives from Southern Africa (In press, Routledge). She is one of the Editors-in-Chief of Children & Society and an Associate Editor of Health Education Journal. She is currently co-Chair of RINGS (International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies).
Peace Kiguwa is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She works within the rubric of critical psychology, affective politics of gender and sexuality, racism and racialization and the nuances of teaching and learning. She has served as Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Division of the Psychology Society of South Africa (PsySSA) and is currently an Executive Member of the PsySSA. She is a recent recipient of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Rising Star Fellowship at Wits University and is the current lead researcher on the African Futures project as part of the Fellowship.
Floretta Boonzaier is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, and co-Director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. She is noted for her work in feminist, critical and postcolonial psychologies, research on subjectivity in relation to race, gender and sexuality, work on gendered and sexual violence, and decolonial research methodologies. She was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychology in Society (PINS) from 2018 to 2021. She is a past UCT Mandela Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is currently President of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA). In addition to several authored/edited books, her most recent publication is the co-authored book, Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times (Palgrave Macmillan, in press).