The Centre for Igbo Studies, primarily established as a research and learning resource center with a major focus on Igbo Studies, will be planning and executing an international conference in partnership with UNESCO, CISA, and IWA.
Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze (Onowu Abagana), the 2023 PDP Presidential Aspirant, Chairman of the CISA Board of Presidents, USA, and CEO of Victorian Care Medical Group Inc., Los Angeles, California, will chair the International Conference on Igbo Studies.
The conference will initiate the Igbo Village Project, an online Igbo teaching and learning program, kickstart the center’s in-house journals, and launch a number of other packages.
Central theme of the conference, “Reimagining Igbo Studies in 21st Century Nigeria,” and related sub-themes, seeks to leverage multidisciplinary dialectics in interrogating the strands that make up the enriching tapestry of the Igbo lived experiences.
The hybrid international conference will be held on Thursday, 18 August 2023 at Princess Alexandria Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Pre-Conference activities, which hold on Wednesday, 16 August 2023 will feature Charity Walk for Igbo, Ịwa Ji Ndigbo (New Yam Festival), Cultural Carnival (mmanwụ festival, wrestling & performing/creative arts competitions) at the Freedom Square of Nsukka Campus.
The Vice Chancellor UNN, Prof Charles Arinzechukwu Igwe will be the Chief Host of the occasion while Chief Nnia Nwodo (former President-General, Ohaneze Ndigbo) will be the keynote speaker.
The lead papers include High Chief Dr. Emma Obiesie (Professor & Dean, School of Business, Okan International University, Davie Florida USA & Turkey), Peter A. Akah (former Vice Chancellor, IMSU Owerri and professor of pharmacology & toxicology, UNN; Cecilia Eme (Professor of Linguistics, Unizik Awka), Prof James Ogbonna (Vice Chancellor, SUMAS, Igbo-Eno Enugu State), Dr. Tobechukwu Omemma (Professor of Political Science, UNN & Berlin University of Technology, Berlin Germany, Dr Ogbonna Onuoha (Professor of Linguistics & DVC, Abia State University, Uturu.
Also billed for the conference are Prof Douglas Chambers (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi, USA), Dr Kevin J. Hales (Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia), Dr Sydney Louis Davis (Director, Igbo Landing Project and Afrimerican Culture Initiative, Boston Massachusetts), Hon Chudi Asidianya (CISA President Emeritus & CEO CA-MPR Inc. Ontario Canada), and Emmanuel Ugwu (Researcher, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia).
Scholars, researchers, and students are being invited to submit abstracts and panel proposals on any aspect of Igbo studies that may be relevant to the overarching tenor of the Conference.
The dignitaries who will be in attendance include political leaders, business icons from homeland Igbo and in diaspora, as well as traditional rulers from various communities and kingdoms in Igbo land, along with the Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist Bishops of Nsukka, as spiritual fathers of the day.
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