Professor Kopano Ratele will be a panellist in the 1st of the 2023 Webinar Series hosted by PsySSA (Psychological Society of South Africa). Exploring notions of meritocracy and its challenges for diversity in professional practice, considering the histories of resistance and activism in Africa and current practices of pathologizing that deploy psychological language to undermine women’s resistance in Africa against oppression, interrogating new directions of afro-centric psychology, and posing critical pedagogical questions of how we teach an African Psychology curriculum that grapples with our racial histories, the Psychology of/from/for Webinar seeks to move the current debates on African Psychology a step further by opening up even more urgent questions about how we do psychology, what it means to engage questions of interiority that are connected to our freedoms and imaginations of what it means to be African and to practice psychology of/from/for Africa.
The Webinar will be held on May 08, 2023, 6:00PM SAST.
You can register for the Webinar via this link.