Online Seminar with Prof Vivek Venkatesh

Social Pedagogy for Building Sustainable Resilience with Dispossessed Communities

Wednesday 27 May 2026

15:00 - 16:00 South Africa

9:00 - 10:00 Canada (Eastern)

10:00 - 11:00 Brazil (São Paulo)

14:00 - 15:00 United Kingdom

Dr. Vivek Venkatesh is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Since 2017, Vivek has held the UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism. Vivek is a filmmaker, musician, curator and applied learning scientist whose research and research-creation programs focus on community resilience and pluralism through a resolutely public pedagogical approach. In his career, Vivek has secured more than $20 million (CAD) as principal or co-principal investigator on large-scale research, infrastructure and capacity-building projects in Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, the Middle East and South-East Asia. Vivek is co-editor, alongside Nelson Varas-Diaz, of the book series titled Extremity in Society and Culture, published by Bloomsbury UK; the latest co-edited collection from 2026 in this series is titled "The Ethics of Extremity: On Hearing, Seeing and Feeling Each Other".

Zoom link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/98617319282?pwd=FMEmOWevs9qNmTjsBJT9QhCTK93WOb.1

Meeting ID: 986 1731 9282
Passcode: 256768

O seminário contará com tradução simultânea para o português, por meio de legendas.