University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wole Soyinka Society to host 4-day international conference to celebrate Professor Wole Soyinka’s 80th Birthday
The University of Lagos in collaboration with Wole Soyinka Society will host a four-day international conference to celebrate the 80th birthday anniversary of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka from July 10 to 14, 2014.
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Below are details of the conference which aims to promote the perpetuation of the cultural and artistic legacy of Professor Soyinka:
- Title: The ‘Soyinka Impulse’
- Theme: ‘Art, Humanity, Transitions and Permanence: Calibrating Soyinka @ 80’.
- Opening Ceremony: July 11, 2014 Time: 9.00 a.m. Venue: Afe Babalola Hall, UNILAG
- Co-Conveners: Professor Duro Oni and Dr. Bisi Adigun
- Programme of events:
- Conference Keynote Lecture entitled: “WS and the Nigerian/African Left: Clarifications and Reflections on that ‘Jacobin’ Moment” by Prof. Biodun Jeyifo of Harvard University.
- Five plenary sessions of conference paper presentations, each of which will be preceded by a keynote address by the following distinguished scholars: Professor Niyi Osundare (Nigeria); Professor Isidore Diala (Nigeria); Professor Motsa Zodwa (South Africa); Professor Anjali Gera Roy (India) and Dr James Gibbs (Britain).
- The staging of Haba Pastor Jero, an adaptation of Soyinka’s Trials of Brother Jero, at the main auditorium at UNILAG;
- Presentations of a few sketches from Soyinka’s Blackout, Blowout and Beyond – Satirical Sketches;
- A visit to Abeokuta, where a site-specific performance of excerpts from Soyinka’s very first Yoruba tragedy, A Dance of the Forests, will be presented.
For further information, please visit: www.wolesoyinkasociety.org/conference or contact: Professor Duro Oni, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Management Services), University of Lagos. [email protected]; OR Dr. Bisi Adigun, Lecturer of Visual & Performing Arts, Kwara State University. [email protected]
