Conference presentations

2026

Paris Conference on Education, Sorbonne University, France | 18 June

From orientation to transformation: Reconfiguring immersive excursions in initial teacher education in South Africa

University of the Western Cape: Assessment in the Age of AI: Do’s, Don’ts and Don’t Knows for current practices symposium | 1 April

Assessment in the age of AI: Reframing practice through a critical AI-study buddy model

The Education Association of South Africa annual conference, UWC | 12 January

Excursions as enabling learning environments: Fostering belonging, care and reflexivity in Initial Teacher Education

Pressing forward with critical literacies: An AI Study Buddy Model for transformative higher education

2025

Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Conference, UWC | 1 December 2025

Transformative learning through immersive excursions: Reimagining teacher education at University of the Western Cape

Canadian association for the advancement of Netherlandic studies, George Brown College, Toronto | 1 June 2025

A disconcerting togetherness: Pro-patriarchal identity constructions in contemporary Afrikaans self-help books (hybrid)

2024

Regional conference on AI, Stellenbosch University | 9 October

Enhancing Critical Literacies: The Role of AI in the Modern Classroom

UWC Academic week: Crafting blended learning masterpieces | 30 August

Watch, Listen, Engage: A dynamic blended learning experience

ALA Language Awareness, Education & Power conference, Karlsruhe, Germany | 7-11 July

Construction of Afrikaans masculinity in the South African media: Power and status

USAN Conference for young scholars, Stellenbosch University | 25-27 January

Die ondersoek van genderkonstruksies in Afrikaanse tydskrifte: ’n Multidissiplinêre metodologie

2023

CIECT Conference UWC | 31 August

The good, the bad and the ugly of using Ikamva

Afrikaans literature society (ALV) Conference, Nelson Mandela University | 23-26 August

Present a paper: Die konstruksie van Afrikaanse manlikheid in tydskrifte: ’n Fokus op seksualiteit.

2022

Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns Simposium | 9-10 November

Present a paper: The construction of Afrikaans masculinity in magazines (2005 to 2015): A discourse analytical study

2017-2018

View of the Open Sky Conference, Stellenbosch University | 2 November 2018

Present a paper: The representation of women in Huisgenoot in 1963 and 2013: A multimodal discourse analysis.

Linguistics Summer School, University of the Witwatersrand | 4-8 December 2017

Present a paper: The construction of Afrikaans masculinity in magazines (2005 to 2015): A discourse analytical study

2014, 2016

Afrikaans literature society (ALV) Conference, North-West University | August 2016

Present a paper: The representation of women in Huisgenoot in 1963 and 2013: A multimodal discourse analysis.

USAN Conference for young scholars, Stellenbosch University | January 2016

Present a paper: The representation of women in Huisgenoot in 1963 and 2013: A multimodal discourse analysis.

USAN Conference for young scholars, Stellenbosch University | January 2014

Present a paper: Changes in the health discourse in reference to the women’s magazine Sarie (1983-2013).