Monday, June 12. , 2006
Opening Ceremony
Venue: Oduduwa Hall
10.10 – 11.10 a.m. Faculty Annual Lecture - Professor B.O. Oloruntimehin
Rethinking the Humanities in Africa
2.30 – 3.30 p.m. Conference Keynote Address
Speaker: Professor Toyin Falola,
University of Texas, Austin.
Title: Rethinking the Humanities in Africa
Tuesday, June 13., 2006
9.00 – 12.30 p.m. Plenary Session
Venue: Auditorium I
Chairperson: Nuhu Yaqub
Rapporteur: Oyeniyi Okunoye
Sam Aluko, Akure: Economics in a Feudal Society
Munzali Jibril, Bayero University, Kano: “New Directions in African Linguistic Thought”
Eghosa Osaghae, Igbinedion University, Okada: “Globalization and the Crisis of African Political Thought”
Philip Sandick, New York: “Re-cognizing the Humanities: Towards a Complex-Adaptive Discipline”
Eskor Toyo, University of Calabar, Calabar: “Bourgeois-Colonial Blindness in a Quandry: A Comment on Political Study and African Client Scholarship”
12.30 – 1.30 p.m. Lunch break
1.30 – 4.00 p.m. 1st Parallel Session
Session 1A: Knowledge Production and
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H. B. II, Room 402
Chairperson: Sola Akinrinade
Rapporteur: W. O. Idowu
Michael Carklin, University of Glamorgan, U.K.: “African Cinema and the Humanities”
Wole Ogundele, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Mothers’ Breast Milk versus Feeding Bottle Milk: Rethinking Modes of Knowledge Production in Africa”
Usman Ladan, A.B.U, Zaria: “Politics and the Study of Nigerian History: The Dialectics of Scholarship and Political Activism”
L.O. Adewole, O.A.U., Ife: “Issues in the Current Studies in African Languages”
S. Folaranmi, Segun Ajiboye and Tayo Ijisakin, OAU, Ife: “The Value of Art in the Study and Publication of Literary Works”
Session 1B: Pedagogical Challenges an Case Studies
Venue: English Department Library – H. B. III, Room 302
Chairperson: M.E.M. Kolawole
Rapporteur: Chijioke Uwasomba
Jane Bryce, University of the West Indies, Barbados: “Africa Through West Indian Eyes: Teaching African Film at the University of the West Indies”
S.R. Ogunduyile, FUTA, Akure: “Challenges of Curriculum Development and Implementation in Industrial Design in Africa”
Wumi Raji, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Drama, Theatre and the Challenges of a Curriculum in a Postcolonial University”
Emmanuel Adejoh, Kogi State University, Ayangba: “The Methodological Debate in the Humanities: A Case Study of History”
Adeola Faleye, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “An Assessment of the Content, Structure and Teaching of Yoruba Oral Literature”
4.15 – 6.45 p.m. 2nd Parallel Session
Session 2A: Orthodoxy an Novelty in Contemporary Humanities Scholarship
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H.B.II Room 402
Chairperson: O. Omosini
Rapporteur: Taiwo Soneye
Tunde Lawuyi, University of Ibadan, Ibadan: “Sociology in Africa: Response and Responsibility”
A.A. Olowu, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Giving Psychology in Africa a Shot in the Arm”
Kunle Filani, F.C.E. Abeokuta: „New Directions in Fine Arts Scholarship in Africa”
Anika Thiem, University of California: “The Human and Humanity as Challenges for and by the Humanities”
Olatunji Vidal, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “A Century of Research and Scholarship in Nigerian Music”
Session 2B: THE HUMANITIES AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
Venue: Department of English Library, H.B.III Room 302
Chairperson: Adebayo Lamikanra
Rapporteur: D.O Ogungbile
Omotoye Olorode, O.A.U., Ife: “Life Sciences and the Humanities”
Mike Faborode, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Technology and the Humanities”
Adesegun Fatusi, O.A.U., Ile- Ife: “The Beauty and the Beast: Transforming the Relationship between Medicine and the Humanities in the Nigerian Environment”
Ife Adewumi, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “The Humanities and Other Disciplines: Civil Engineering Practice As An Artistic Science”
Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Initiatives, Ibadan: “Humanities, Science and Technology: Linear Continuum or Multi-dimensional Space?”
Tunde Omobowale, University of Ibadan, Ibadan: “Literature and Medicine”
7.00 – 8.00 p.m. Performance
Venue: Pit Theatre, African Studies Building
Wednesday, June 14., 2006
9.00 – 11.30 a.m. 3rd Parallel Session
Session 3A: Disciplinary Challenges I
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H.B. II Room 402
Chairperson: Flora Veit-Wild
Rapporteur: Wumi Raji
D.S. Izevbaye, Bowen University, Iwo: “Critical tasks for Literary Theory”
Ademola Popoola, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Advancing the Frontiers of Legal Research in Nigeria : Issues, Problems and Challenges”
E. Alemika, University of Jos, Jos: “Sociology in Africa: Visions from the Past to the Present and the Future”
Ayodeji Olukoju, University of Lagos, Lagos: “Rethinking Historical Scholarship in Nigeria”
Sola Akinrinade, O.A.U., Ife: “Does History need an Appendage to Function?”
Session 3B: Decolonizing the Humanities
Venue: Dept. of English Library, H.B. III Room 302
Chairperson: Tunde Lawuyi
Rapporteur: Kehinde Ayoola
Harry Garuba, University of Cape Town, South Africa: “Is there a Text in African Literature (in English)?: Rethinking African Literary Studies in the 21st Century”
C.U. Manus, O.A.U, Ile-Ife: “Decolonising the Humanities: The Case of New Testament Criticism in Religious Studies in Nigeria”
Folasade Hunsu, O.A.U., Ife: “How Afrocentric is Literary Studies in African Universities?”
I.C. Ikoroh and E.O. Okwechime, B.I.U. & Uniben: “Decolonising Literary Studies in Nigerian Universities”
A.O. Nkwoka, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Decolonizing Christian Religious Studies and Biblical Scholarship”
11.30 – 2.00 p.m. 4th Parallel Session
Session 4A: The Humanities an National Development
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H.B. II Room 402
Chairperson: Sylvester Osagie
Rapporteur: Tunde Oduntan
Israel Sule Dantata, A.B.U., Zaria: “The Relevance of the Social Sciences in National Development”
Osimiri Peter, Covenant University, Ota: “Philosophy and the Imperatives of African Development”
Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “The Humanities, Visual Arts and National Development”
Ademola Adejumo, O.A.U., Ife: “The Relevance of Fine Arts in National Development”
Ifeanyichukwu Onwuzuruigbo, University of Ibadan: “Ethnic Conflicts in Nigeria: The Missing Link”
Segun Oyewo, O.A.U., Ife: “Rethinking Theatre Arts for National Development in Nigeria”
Session 4B: The Humanities and the Sociology of Knowledge
Venue: English Department Library, H.B.III Room 302
Chairperson: Richard Olaniyan
Rapporteur: Dipo Babalola
Kalu Uka, University of Uyo, Uyo: “The Dialectics of Ideology in the Globalization of African Performance Arts”
Walter Bisang, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz: „Languages and Cultures in Contact : Convergences and Divergences”
Laide Sheba, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Reconsidering Gender in Yoruba Proverbs”
Regina Ode, Benue State University, Makurdi: “Gender Mainstreaming in the Humanities: An Assessment of the Contents of Humanistic Disciplines in Benue State University”
Peter F. Omonzele, Univ. of Central Lancashire, England: “Concepts of Vulnerability and Susceptibility: Research Ethics Amongst Vulnerable Populations”
2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Lunch break
3.00 – 5.30 p.m. 5th Parallel Session
Session 5A: Challenges of Relevance in Context
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H.B.II Room 402
Chairperson: Walter Bisang
Rapporteur: Abidemi Fabunmi
Sola Ehindero, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Redefining Education in the 21st Century”
Tundonu Amosu, Lagos State University, Lagos: “Foreign Languages and the New World Order”
Remi Sonaiya, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Rethinking Language-in-Education Policies in Africa”
Moses Duruji, Covenant University, Ota: “Post-Modern Perspectives in the Humanities: A Critical Appraisal”
J. O. Famakinwa, O.A.U., Ife: “Redefining the Relevance of Philosophy in the 21st Century“
Phebe Jatau, Federal College of Education, Zaria: “Rethinking the Marxian Alternative for Solving Nigeria’s Socio-Political Economic Crisis Using Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, Wole Soyinka’s Season of Anomy and Festus Iyayi’s Violence”
Session 5B: Disciplinary Challenges II
Venue: English Department Library, H.B.III Room 302
Chairperson: Dan Izevbaye
Rapporteur: Ezekiel Olagunju
L.K. Jeje, O.A.U., Ile –Ife: “Geography and Recent Trends in Nigeria”
Aduke Adebayo, University of Ibadan, Ibadan: “Global Best Practices for Foreign Languages for Nigerian Universities”
James Osuo Ewah, University of Calabar, Calabar: “Historical Practice and Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century”
Chijioke Uwasomba, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Retooling the Methodologies in the Humanities in an Age of Boundary Crossing: The Case of Literature”
Foluke Ogunleye, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Meeting up with the Challenges in the Twenty-First Century: Designing Drama Courses for Non-Humanities Majors”
5.30 – 8.00 p.m. 6th Parallel Session
Session 6A: Retrospect an Prospects I
Venue: Faculty of Arts Committee Room, H.B.II Room 402
Chairperson: Jane Bryce
Rapporteur: Y.K. Salami
Nuhu Yaqub, Univ. of Abuja: “New Directions in African Linguistic Thought”
Flora Veit-Wild, Humboldt University of Berlin: “Orpheus Black and White: Janheinz Jahn’s Contribution to the Humanities in Africa”
Adigun Agbaje & Adewale Adebanwi, U.I. & Cambridge: “New Directions in Socio-Political Thought in Africa”
Oyeniyi Okunoye, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “On the Challenges of Relevant Critical Intervention from an African Base”
Abubakar Momoh, Lagos State University, Lagos: “Does African Political Thought have a Future?”
Session 6B: Retrospect and Prospect II
Venue: English Department Library, H.B. III Room 302
Chairperson: L.O. Adewole
Rapporteur: J.A. Afolabi
Akin Makinde, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Redefining African Philosophy in the Twentieth Century”
S.J. Timothy-Asobele, University of Lagos, Lagos: “Research in the Humanities and the Arts: Definitions, Prospects, Problems and Projections”
O.M.A. Daramola, O.A.U., Ile- Ife: “Rethinking Music Performance and Scholarship in the Humanities”
Femi Adedeji & Myke Olatunji, O.A.U., Ile-Ife: “Reassessing the Significance of the Performing Arts in our Contemporary World”
Dan Kahyana, Makerere University, Uganda: “The Humanities for a Social Purpose: Reflections on the Potential Role of African Literature in Fighting HIV/AIDS”