Keynote Speaker

PROF. MARC DEPAEPE

EMERITUS PROFESSOR, KU LEUVEN, CAMPUS KULAK & LEADING RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA

Speech title: “Can something be learnt for the future of education from the educational past?”

Marc Depaepe (1953) was deputy chancellor at the KU Leuven (2013-2017). Since 2005 co- editor-in-chief of Paedagogica Historica. Former president of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (1991-1994) and member of the International Academy of Education (2012-). In 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Latvia. Since 2018 Emeritus Professor of the KU Leuven and since 2019 Leading Researcher at the University of Latvia. Published abundantly on various aspects of international educational historiography and the history of education in Belgium and Congo.

Scientific Committee 

  • Prof. Dr. Genutė Gedvilienė, VMU, Lithuania
  • Assoc. Prof. Doc. dr. sc. Andreja Sršen, University of Zagreb,Croatia
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslı Erciyes, Kadir Has University, Turkey
  • Prof. Husam Bakr Khalil, British University in Egypt, Egypt
  • Dr. Ahmad Okasha (Ph.D), Canadian University Dubai, UAE
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Cuneyt Yenigun, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
  • Prof..Jaime Ferri, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  • Prof. Bashar H. Malkawi, University of Sharjah, KSA
  • Prof. Sevil Sargin, Marmara University, Turkey
  • Prof. Adem Kilicman, Universiti Putra Malaysia | UPM, Malaysia
  • Lect. Joseph Bawa Yaro, Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
  • Asst. Prof. Dr Anas Hidayat, Islamic University of Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Dr. Muafi S.E., M.Si, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Dr. Kiddinapillai Sanmuganathan, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
  • Dr. Hinneh Kusi, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
  • Prof. Heba Mansour, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
  • Prof. Dr. Habil. Ioan-Gheorghe Rotaru, Timotheus’ Brethren Theological Institute of Bucharest, Romania
  • Dr. Ramzi Bendebka, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Dr. Praveen Hoogar, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India
  • Dr. Saman Abdulqadir Hussein Dizayi, Erbil Polytechnic University, Iraq
  • Dr. Merle Talvik, Tallinn Health Care Collega, Estonia
  • Dr. Ronel De Villiers, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
  • Professor Bashar H. Malkawi, College of Law, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates