Monday 31 March 2014

FWD: The Chinua Achebe Colloquium 2014


THE CHINUA ACHEBE COLLOQUIUM 2014
African Literature as Restoration: Chinua Achebe as Teacher
Thursday May 1, 2014 – Sunday May 4, 2014
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Mistress of Ceremony: Professor Abena P. A. Busia
                                                                 abenapabusia@gmail.com



Thursday evening May 1, 2014

5:30pm – 6:00 pm

Opening Address: TBA


6:30 -8:30pm

Nigeria at 100: Hopes and Impediments

A perspective of past Heads of State of Nigeria: TBA

Moderator Consular General of Nigeria to the USA Honourable Habib Baba Habu, OON


8:30pm - 10:30pm

   There Was A Country: Nigeria, Biafra, and the Unfulfilled Promise

Chair: Professor Obiora Udechukwu, Dana Professor of the Arts, St Lawrence University, New York

Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil, hekweekwe@hotmail.com

Professor Apollos Nwauwa, Bowling Green University, nwauwa@bgsu.edu

Professor E.C. Ejiogu, University of the Free State, South Africa, e.c.ejiogu@gmail.com

Professor Chukwuemeka Callistus Akanno, cakanno@gmail.com,

Mohammed Haruna, eminent Nigerian journalist and public commentator ndajika@yahoo.com
           
Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Writer, literary critic and commentator Maryland, USAxokigbo@yahoo.com


Friday May 2, 2014

9          9: 30 a.m.

Wel      Welcome, President Christina Hull Paxson

9           9:35 a.m. –9:50 a.m.
Op        Openining Conference Address:  Nelson Mandela on Achebe (video tape- available)

10:      10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
K          Keynote Speaker: Professor Lynn Innes

10:      10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Th       Things Fall Apart: The Writer “Who Brought Africa to the World”—Achebe’s Impact on the World of Letters

Chair: Dr. Thomas J. Lynn, Pennsylvania State University, Berks TJL7@psu.edu 

Professor Ipshita Chanda, Georgetown University, Washington, pixybee@gmail.com,

Dr. Nair Anaya Ferreira, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, manausmex@yahoo.com

Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley, Haverford College, Pennsylvania jshipley@haverford.edu

Professor Maduabuchi Samuel Onuigbo, PhD, Professor of English and Literary Studies, Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Enugu State Nigeria Email: onuigbosamlizzy@yahoo.com

Professor Inocência Mata  Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade LISBOA, Portugal


12       12:00p.m. -1:00 p.m.
             LUNCH

Po       Power Poetry: Ikeogu Oke with instrumentalist Osuji Ngozi Michael, ikeogu.oke@gmail.com

1:1       1:100 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Th       Novelist as Teacher: Achebe and the Re-education of the African and Western Psyche

Chair: Professor Annie Gagiano, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, ahg@sun.ac.za

Professor Ato Quayson,University of Toronto, Canada, a.quayson@utoronto.ca 

Professor Itala Vivan, Italy. Itala.vivan@unimi.it

Professor Raoul Grangvist, Umea University, Sweden, raoul.granqvist@gmail.com

Professor Chimalum Nwankwo, Abuja, Nigeria, ndimuo@hotmail.com,

Professor Don Burness, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH,burness.don@gmail.com


2:       2:35p.m.–3:05 p.m.
Ke        Keynote Speaker: Molefi Kete Asante

3:1     3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
No      No Longer at Ease: The Uneasy Relationship Between the Poet and Emperor

Chair: Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Writers House, Rutgers University Email:  darrelholnes@gmail.com, 

Professor Obioma Nnaemeka University of Indianapolis, nnaemeka@iupui.edu

Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson, Wits University, South Africa, Bhekizizwe.Peterson@wits.ac.za,

Professor Raisa Simola University of Eastern Finland, Raisa.Simola@uef.fi

Professor T. Vijay Kumar Osmania University, India, tvk2k4@gmail.com

Professor Mercedes Bengoechea Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, Mercedes.bengoechea@uah.es



4:       4:35 p.m.–5:55 p.m.
Th      The Direction of African Writing and Publishing Since the African Writers Series

Moderator: Brown University Professor TBD

Mr. Kassahun Checole, Publisher, African World Press and Red Sea Press

Mr. James Currey, Publisher, James Currey Press

Ms. Dee Mortensen, Senior Sponsoring Editor, Indiana University Press

Ms. Gillian Berchowitz, Director, Ohio University Press

Mr. Gabe Dotto, Director, Michigan State University Press
            dotto@msu.edu

8         8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
K         Keynote Dramatic Performance: Professor Tess Onwueme,  tess.onwueme@gmail.com or

En      Entertainment: TBA

8:        8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.



Sat     Saturday May 3, 2014

9:        9:05 a.m.
We      Welcome, President Christina Hull Paxson


9:1       9:10 a.m.–9:20 a.m.
Ac        Achebe and the Founding of Modern African Literature
N          Nadine Gordimer (taped video)

9:          9:25 a.m.–9:55 a.m.
Ke        Keynote Speaker: Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton University

10:        10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
A          Another Africa: Achebe and the Image of Africa

  Chair: Professor Olakunle George, Brown University Olakunle_George@Brown.EDU

  Dr. Kabir Ahmed, National Institute for Legislative Studies, Abuja, Nigeria


David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, palumbo-liu@stanford.edu

Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, New York, gcspiv@gmail.com

Tsitsi Dangaremba, Writer; Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA), Harare, Zimbabwe, tsitsi@nyeraifilms.com

Professor Michael Thelwell, Umass Amherst, emthelwell@gmail.com, thelwell@afroam.umass.edu 

Professor Paget Henry, Head of Africana Studies, Brown University


11        11:30 a.m.-12 noon
Ke       Keynote Poetry Performance:  South Africa’s National Poet Laureate and Special Advisor to the Minister of Arts & Culture, Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile

12       12 noon–1 p.m.
LU      LUNCH

1:1      1:10 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
Chi     Chinua Achebe and the Hip Hop Generation

Moderator: De Juana Thompson, Founder and managing partner of Promoting Excellence, LLC

            The Roots
Wale
Obi Asika Chairman of OutSource Media, Founder of Dragon Africa, West Africa Partner and Co-Founder of AMPN West Africa. Email: china.asika@gmail.com,
Marcus Glover, Founder of Gluagency and TEdxHarlem Email:marcus@gluagency.com;
Rob Marriot Writer, Editor, Dj, former editor at Vibe, XXL Magazines
Email: rkmarriott@gmail.com
Efe Omoregbe, producer, writer, manager
Email: nowmuzik@yahoo.com



2:       2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Ke        Keynote Speaker: Bernth Lindfors, bernthlindfors@yahoo.com

3:       3:20 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
A          Man of the People: Achebe and the Crusade for Social Justice

Chair: Dr Terri Ochiagha, University of Sussex, England, T.Ochiagha@sussex.ac.uk
Dr. Paula García Ramírez, Departamento de Filología Inglesa/ Dept. of English Studies; Universidad de Jaén/University of Jaén, España/Spain Email:pagarcia@ujaen.es
Professor Ayo A. Coly, Dartmouth College, Ayo.Coly@Dartmouth.edu

Dr. Ide Corley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland.

Dr Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jnr, University of London, ko9@soas.ac.uk

Mr. Morakabe Raks Seakhoa, wRite associates, South Africa, raks@writeassociates.co.za

Professor Donna V. Jones, University of California, Berkeley, dvjones@berkeley.edu



4:        4:45p.m. - 6:05 p.m.

Ar       Arrow of God: New Insights into Achebe’s Magnum Opus

Chair: Professor Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan, Flint, eernest@umflint.edu

Dr. Mark Mathuray, University College, London, Mark.Mathuray@rhul.ac.uk

Dr. Jon Millington, Institute of English Studies, London, Jon.Millington@sas.ac.uk,

Dr. Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, R.Primorac@soton.ac.uk

Dr. Wale Okediran, Association of Nigerian Authors, waleokediran@yahoo.co.uk,







6:          6:05p.m - 6:35 p.m

CL        CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

  His Excellency, Alhaji Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso,
  Executive Governor of Kano State, NIGERIA




8:          8:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.

E            ENTERTAINMENT TBD

          
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