Oratie Caroline Suransky
On 12 November 2025 at 3.30 P.M., Prof. Caroline Suransky, Professor of Education and Social Change at the University of Humanistic Studies, will deliver her inaugural lecture ‘Education at a crossroads: diversity, equity and inclusion in the Anthropocene’. The chair focuses on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in higher education and is the first chair at the UvH with an educational profile.
In her inaugural address Carolina Suransky argues that education cannot be neutral in times of ecological crises, inequality and polarization. She weaves together two main threads: pluralism and justice. Pluralism, she maintains, is at once a pedagogical practice that embraces dialogue and discomfort, an analytical lens to resist binaries, an epistemological stance that honors diverse traditions of knowledge and a political horizon where knowledge and politics meet. Justice, the second thread, is inseparable from ecological and social concerns. To ground these ideas, she interweaves personal stories that show how lived experience and theory speak to one another. Drawing on thinkers such as Appadurai, Mbembe and Latour, Suransky calls for humanistic education that opens spaces for many voices, confronts colonial legacies and helps us imagine more just and sustainable futures.
- Date: November 12 – 2025
- Time: 3.30 pm
- Location: De Leeuwenbergh, Servaasbolwerk 1A, Utrecht
- Livestream available
Caroline Suransky was voor haar benoeming tot hoogleraar per 1 mei 2025, universitair hoofddocent in de leerstoelgroep Educatie aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek. Daarnaast is zij als bijzonder hoogleraar verbonden aan Stellenbosch University in Zuid-Afrika. In samenwerking met het Franse collectief S-Composition ontwikkelt ze educatieve interventies, geïnspireerd op het gedachtegoed van Bruno Latour.