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    NEWS & EVENTS

    Presidential Address by Dr. Mrs. Ada Uzoamaka AzodoAt the 2018 16th Annual Conference and Meeting of the Igbo Studies Association (USA), Dominican University River Forest, Illinois, USA

    Title of Keynote: Retrospectives and Projections: lgbo Cosmogony and Sustaining Epistemologies for the Future”

    Professor Chimalum Nwankwo, Professor of African Literature, African-American Literature, American literature and World Literature studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Texas A & M University, USA. His teaching stable includes Post-Colonial Literature, African and African American Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, and Dramatic Literature. Professor Nwankwo was right there in Philadelphia in 2009, when the decision was made by Igbo professors gathered at the African Literature Association conference to begin an Igbo Studies Association. In his teaching, Nwankwọ’s recurrent contention is that no literature operates in a political vacuum, adding that everything is in a flux, because without fail no cultural or ideological fixation ever endures.

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    2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PANELS

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    Jun
    OPENING CEREMONY, PLENARY SESSION, AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
    Date: 17 June 2021, 10:00
    This includes the official opening ceremony, a plenary discussion, and the keynote address.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 1: Home, Family, and Naming
    Date: 17 June 2021, 11:00
    This panel focuses on home, family and naming trends in Igbo culture.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 2: Medicine, Nursing, and Health
    Date: 17 June 2021, 11:00
    This session focuses on medicine, nursing, and health care.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 3: Human, Women’s Rights
    Date: 17 June 2021, 11:00
    This panel focuses on human rights and women's rights.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 4: Religions, Beliefs, and Numerology
    Date: 17 June 2021, 13:00
    This panel focuses on religions, beliefs, and numerology.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 5: Folklore, History, and Literature
    Date: 17 June 2021, 13:00
    This panel focuses on folklore, history, and literature.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 6: Investment
    Date: 17 June 2021, 13:00
    This panel focuses on investment.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 9: Migration, Emigration, Marginalization, Restructuring
    Date: 17 June 2021, 15:00
    This panel focuses on migration, emigration, marginalization, and restructuring.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 7: Women, War/Conflict Resolution
    Date: 17 June 2021, 15:00
    This panel focuses on women, war and conflict resolution.
    17
    Jun
    Panel 8: Feminism and Female Empowerment (1)
    Date: 17 June 2021, 15:00
    This session focuses on feminism and female empowerment.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 10: Feminism and Female Empowerment (2)
    Date: 18 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel will focus on feminism and female empowerment.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 11: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
    Date: 18 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel focuses on climate change and environmental degradation.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 12: Language and Social Development
    Date: 18 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel focuses on infrastructure and social development.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 13: Infrastructure and Social Development
    Date: 18 June 2021, 12:00
    This panel focuses on infrastructure and social development.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 14: Insecurity, Crime and Punishment
    Date: 18 June 2021, 12:00
    This panel focuses on insecurity, crime and punishment.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 15: Ideology, and Development
    Date: 18 June 2021, 12:00
    This panel focuses on ideology and development.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 16: Ideology, and Development
    Date: 18 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on ideology and development.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 17: Morality in Igboland
    Date: 18 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on morality in Igboland.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 18: Igbo Masquerades
    Date: 18 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo masquerades.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 19: Community Rituals
    Date: 18 June 2021, 16:00
    This panel focuses on community rituals.
    18
    Jun
    Panel 20: Community Rituals
    Date: 18 June 2021, 16:00
    This panel focuses on community rituals.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 21: Igbo Language, Acquisition, and Pedagogy (1)
    Date: 19 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo language, acquisition, and pedagogy.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 22: Music, Visual Arts, Film, Social Media, Cyber Crime
    Date: 19 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo language, acquisition, and pedagogy.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 23: Nollywood, and Igbo Culture and Values
    Date: 19 June 2021, 10:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo language, acquisition, and pedagogy.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 24: Igbo Language, Acquisition, and Pedagogy (2)
    Date: 19 June 2021, 12:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo language, acquisition, and pedagogy.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 25: Leadership, Militarism, Politics, and Governance
    Date: 19 June 2021, 12:00
    This panel focuses on leadership, militarism, politics, and governance.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 26: Igbo Language, Endangerment and Preservation
    Date: 19 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on ideology and development.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 27: Social Justice, Militarism, and Criminal Justice
    Date: 19 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on social justice, militarism, and criminal justice.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 28: Corruption and Fraudulent Practices
    Date: 19 June 2021, 14:00
    This panel focuses on corruption and fraudulent practices.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 29: Igbo Language, Translation and Teaching
    Date: 19 June 2021, 16:00
    This panel focuses on Igbo language, translation and teaching.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 30: Symbolism
    Date: 19 June 2021, 16:00
    This panel focuses on symbolism.
    19
    Jun
    Panel 31: Entrepreneurship, and Wealth Creation and Repatriation
    Date: 19 June 2021, 16:00
    This panel focuses on entrepreneurship, and wealth creation and repatriation.
    19
    Jun
    BUSINESS MEETING AND CLOSING CEREMONY
    Date: 19 June 2021, 18:00
    Closing ceremony.

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