Speaker: Rosalba Icaza is a decolonial feminist activist-scholar with over 15 years of research and teaching experience on feminisms, global politics, and research methodologies. Rosalba is a member of the Transnational Network Other Knowledges (RETOS) and collaborates with Suumil Mookt'aan in Sinanche, Yucatan, Mexico. In 2016 she was appointed to the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission, the first body of its kind in the Netherlands, that conducted research on the state of demographic and epistemic diversity in UvA's governance of teaching and learning. Rosalba is currently part of an international consortium financed by an Erasmus Plus Grant that explores diversity in Europe's Dance Higher Education. Rosalba is also part of the EU-funded Cost Action on Decolonising Development. She is a Full Professor of Global Politics, Feminisms, and Decoloniality at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR). Her latest publications include: A world in which many worlds can fit: On Knowledge Production and Multiplicity”, in Kohl. A journal on Body and Gender Research. Special Issue on Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries. Contesting the Present, vol. 9, no.1, winter 2023; “Undoing Coloniality? Polycentric Governing and Refugee Spaces”, in Polycentrism. How Governing Works Today, Edited by Frank Gadinger and Jan Aart Scholte. Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Tamirace Fakhoury, 2023; Our Bodies Breathe Resistance: Covid-19 Stories from/in the margins”. Guest editor with Zuleika Sheik, Globalizations, vol 20, issue 2, 2023.

Speaker: Dastan Kamanzi is a thinker, Pan-Africanist, and media expert. He is the Executive Director of the Tanzania Media Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization that promotes Media for the public good. He is also a mentor, coach, and media consultant. Kamanzi is passionate about the development of Africa and its people. He believes that the key to Africa's success is to nurture and grow its human capital. He has developed a philosophy called the Tija Human person philosophy and a Work-learn approach. The worklearn approach is a pre-colonial approach to education used by Africans to transform their environment before they came into contact with the colonizers. It is one of the approaches meant to decolonize the minds of the colonized (Africans). Kamanzi is a highly respected figure in the Tanzanian media community. He is known for his expertise in media development, media and democracy, and media ethics. He is also a strong advocate for freedom of expression, media pluralism, and viability. Kamanzi holds a Master's Degree in Mass Communication from St. Augustine of Tanzania and a BA (Hons) in Culture and Heritage (Archaeology major and minor in Philosophy) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Speaker: Alice Feldman is an activist-educator, art maker and researcher in the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. She has worked at the intersections of aesthetics, epistemology and pedagogy in the contexts of knowledge justice projects across university, civic and grassroots landscapes for over 20 years. More recently this work inspired the practice-led MA Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies she developed in 2016, which has at its heart her longstanding compulsions towards decolonial experiments with art-political practices and embodied knowledges, through method-il-logical inquiries and body-based learning. The unanticipated community of practice impelled by the MA gave rise to The Bureau of Decolonial Aesthesis, which continues this work beyond the spaces of the programme. After chairing the UCD Parity Studios/College of Social Sciences and Law Artist in Residence Programme for several years, she began a collaboration in 2019 with choreographer and movement artist Rajinder Singh as part of an ERAMUS+ Strategic Partnership project, Circus as Intercultural Encounter. The multi-modal, experiential practice they created during this time became the foundation for their recent year-long art/out/reach, Alien Embodiments, in response to The Otolith Group’s 2022 exhibition, Xenogenesis, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. 

Moderator: Sive Bresnihan is currently Training and Education Co-ordinator with Comhlámh. In addition to this role, she sits on the IDEA Code of Good Practice Panel, Children in Crossfire's Educating the Heart trainer panel and, since 2020, DVV Germany’s Expert Panel for the Cross-border Sustainability Alliances project. With a background in drama & theatre studies, and international development studies, Sive worked with Trocaire in Rwanda and later in Zimbabwe between 2003 and 2008 before transitioning into adult education in 2010. She is a novice practitioner of Gestalt Theatre in Education and combines this with an ever-strengthening commitment to decolonial pedagogies. Sive holds an MA in Development Studies from the Kimmage Development Studies Centre and an MEd in Adult Education from the University of Cape Town.