Meet our Facilitator and Panelists
Facilitator - Prof Garth Stevens
Garth Stevens is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology, in the School of Human and Community Development, at the University of the Witwatersrand and is the immediate Past President of PsySSA. He currently also serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. His abiding research interests have primarily been in the area of critical psychology – with an emphasis on race, racism and related social asymmetries; violence; and historical/collective trauma and memory. He has published widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally, and is also the co-lead researcher on the Apartheid Archive Project. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), and holds a B-rating from the NRF.
Prof Darrin Hodgetts
Darrin Hodgetts is a societally and community orientated social psychologist with interests in addressing issue of Human [In]security through the provision of indecent work and reductions in urban poverty, homelessness, food insecurity. Darrin co-facilitates the Ending Poverty and Inequality Research Cluster (EPIC) at Massey University. His scholar activism links to SDG1 No Poverty, SDG 2 Zero Hunger, SDG 3 Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 10 Reduced Inequality, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities, and SDG 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. Key international project hubs launched by EPIC include Project SAFE (Security Assessment for Everyone and Project GLOW (Global Living Organisational Wage. Recent SDG relevant book length co-publications include Social Psychology and Everyday Life (2020, 2nd Ed Palgrave); Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology (2019); Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Inter-cultural Psychology (2018, Routledge); Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities (2017).
Dr Nick Malherbe
Nick Malherbe is a researcher at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa and South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Masculinity and Health Research Unit. His research interests include violence, community-building, and visual methods.
Prof Hlonipha Mokoena
Hlonipha Mokoena received her Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town in 2005. She is currently an associate professor and researcher at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her articles have been published in: Journal of Natal and Zulu History; Journal of Religion in Africa; Journal of Southern African Studies; Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Image & Text and Critical Arts.
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkia
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkia, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on liberation psychosocial intervention, critical trauma studies, state crimes and criminology, securitized surveillance, gender violence, law and society and genocide studies. She is the author of numerous academic articles and books among them “Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study” published in 2010; “Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear”, published in 2015; “Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding”, published in 2019; all by Cambridge University Press. She also co-edited two books, the latest entitled: “When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism”, CUP 2021, and is completing an edited volume with Lila Abu-Lughod and Rema Hammami entitled: The Cunning of Gender Based Violence”, to be published with Duke University Press in 2023.