Higher education institutions across the world are facing renewed calls to rethink their identities, responsibilities and social purposes.

This conference invites academics, practitioners, students, community partners and policymakers who are keen
to move community engagement from the margins to the centre, to explore how universities,
particularly in the South African and broader Global South contexts, can contribute to humane, just and reparative futures.

The conference also provides the space for us to shape our commitments to actionable outcomes for more humane societies.

We invite scholarly papers, practicebased reflections, community-led presentations and creative contributions
that engage with the themes outlined below:

What is the purpose of higher education institutions, and the knowledge communities they nurture, in the twenty-first century?
How can we understand community engagement through a reparative lens?
How can higher education community engagement promote the cultivation of humanity?