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Jeremy Rappleye is Professor of Comparative Education and Director of the Comparative Education Research Center at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly at Kyoto University for 15 years, and prior to that at other leading universities across East Asia including Tokyo University, National Taiwan University, and East China Normal. He has collaborated with a range of leading scholars across the region, including philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, environmental scientists, and Buddhist monks. These dialogues are afforded by academic fluency in both Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin). He has written extensively on theory in comparative education within the field’s leading journals and in collaboration with thinkers inside and out. Recent works include: Between Faith and Science: World Culture Theory and Comparative Education (2012, with Stephen Carney and Iveta Silova), Beyond the Western Horizon: Rethinking Education, Values, and Policy Transfer (2020, with Iveta Silova and Euan Auld), Comparative Education as Cultural Critique (2021) and Unlearning Cartesian Consciousness: On the Source of Anglo-American Prejudice towards East Asian education (Forthcoming 2026, with Nishihira Tadashi and Keita Takayama). This body of work, taken as a whole, seeks to reconnect the field of comparative education to the ‘place’ (topos, basho) of onto-hermeneutical encounter, self-awareness, and mutual learning.

Sharon Todd is Professor of Education and member of the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland. She has published widely in the areas of relationality, social justice and ethics and is currently engaged in making connections between the climate emergency, art practice, and political aesthetics in education. She is author of The Touch of the Present: Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses (SUNY Press, 2023), Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism (Paradigm, 2009), and Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis and Ethical Possibilities in Education (SUNY, 2003). Publications also include the co-edited volumes Re-imagining Educational Relationships: Ethics, Politics, Practices with M. Griffiths, M. Honerød and C. Winter (Wiley, 2014) and Philosophy East/West: Exploring the Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices with O. Ergas (Wiley, 2015). She is past President of the International Network of Philosophers of Education as well as being a Zen Buddhist and abstract painter.

Arathi Sriprakash is a sociologist of education. Her current research examines reparative justice in educational systems and practices. How might collective recognition of past and present injustices help us imagine ‘reparative futures’ of education? What does reparation in education look like? See the Reparative Futures of Education project www.repair-ed.uk
This line of inquiry has emerged from Arathi’s scholarship over a number of years which has illuminated the structural injustices of schooling systems. She has examined the politics of educational inequality in the Indian, Australian and UK contexts as well as the global governance of childhood and the family. Underlying much of this research has been an abiding interest in the racial politics of education. Her scholarship has explored the active erasures of racism and coloniality in the field of education and the ways in which racial capitalism sustains educational injustices. Major collaborative works in these areas include: Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State (Pluto, 2022); Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education (Chicago, 2023); and Learning With the Past: Racism, Education and Reparative Futures (Unesco, 2020). Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Arathi taught at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Sydney. She is a co-convenor of the Race, Empire and Education Research Collective.

Jakob Egholm Feldt is a professor of history at Roskilde University. He focuses on the transactions between experiences, concepts, and values from a historical perspective, particularly concerning antisemitism, Jewish history, and public/civil sphere controversies regarding historical and social justice. In a broader context, his research analyzes the role of historical experience and temporality in shaping community and solidarity through narratives of suffering, justice/injustice, memories of “events”, and socially produced notions of direction and purpose in history (synchronization and teleology). He also publishes on the philosophy and theory of higher education. From 2018 to 2025, he served as co-director of Roskilde University’s research center for problem-oriented project learning.

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Commemorating Professor Bob Cowen at the General Assembly of CESE.

Thank you all for attending the XXIX Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe, held at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; it has been a pleasure welcoming you. We hope you had a great CESE Conference experience!

We would also like to thank our local organising committee and the students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for their support and the very efficient help during the conference.

See you all at the next CESE Conference! 😃📚