2ND CONFERENCE OF THE NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURE ASSOCIATION [NOLA]]

[Ademola Omobewaji]

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE TO INTERESTED COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS THE 2ND CONFERENCE OF NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURE ASSOCIATION [NOLA]. FIND THE DETAILS BELOW:

 

2nd CONFERENCE

OF THE NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURE ASSOCIATION [NOLA]

DATE:  7 – 9, AUGUST, 2013

VENUE:  CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA

THEME:  DOCUMENTATION & SAFEGUARDING OF NIGERIAN ORAL LITERATURES & TRADITIONS

                              

SUB-THEMES:

1.      Theories and Discourses on Orality, Orature, Oral Literature, Performance Arts, Oral Traditions, Media and Communications, Cultural Reproduction, Transmissions

2.      Fieldwork, Documentation, Safeguarding, Translation, Transcription, Taxonomy/Classification.

3.      Myths and Legends, Oral Histories, Migration Narratives; Remembrances,

4.      Oral Narrative Genres; Oral Epics; The Folktale; Story-telling Events/Performances  

5.      Other Worlds/Wonderlands, Utopias, Post-Mortem Heavens, Science Fiction; Travel Literature/Travelogue; Magical Realism/Fantasies

6.      Oral Poetic Genres; Song-Poetry and Dance-songs Traditions; Musical Genres and Traditions/Musical Equipment; Popular Music; Work Songs and Lores; Leisure/Recreation Events/Games

7.      Oratory; Oral Rhetoric; Proverbial Lore and Idioms, Riddles; Jokes; Tongue Twisters; Oral Delivery and Multi-media Performance

8.      Festivals; Carnivals; Durbars; Regattas; Tournaments, Exhibitions; Memorial Festival Drama/Theatre;  Puppet Theatre, Itinerant Theatre, Comedians/Entertainments

9.      Gender Discourses and Women in Oral Literature; Female Voices and Spaces; Children’s Literature, Children’s Games and Theatres; Rites of Passage, Socialisation and Acculturation Processes

10.  Creative Arts and Design; Digital Narration/Stories; and Computer/Cyber Games and  Animation; Cartoon Stories, Art and Illustrations

11.   Documentation and Safeguarding of Oral Literature/Folklore; Oral Arts and Biographical Studies; UNESCO  and Government Cultural Policies and Programmes; Training of Oral Artist

12.   Interface of Oral and Written Traditions; Translation/Transliteration of Nigerian Oral Literatures; Orality, Technology and Communication, Radio, Television and Social Media;  Urbanisation, Social Movements, Environment and Biodiversity; The Oral Heritage, Human Rights, Democracy  and Social Change;

13.   Nigerian Oral Traditions, Oral Literature, Globalisation and the African Diaspora

 

Abstracts of not more than 250 words are invited from prospective participants not later than July 7, 2013, should be sent to:

 

(i)  Conference Convener, Prof. G.G. Darah, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. E-mail: <ggd...@gmail.com>; mobile phone: +234(0)8036088913

 

(ii) Chairman Organising Committee- Prof. Ademola Dasylva, Redeemer's University, Mowe. a.da...@mail.ui.edu.ng; dasy...@yahoo.com; Mobile phone: +234 (0)8070710050)

 

DIRECT ALL ENQUIRIES TO:

The Conference Administrator, Dr. Mark Ighile, Redeemer's University, Mowe, Ogun State. E-mail: <mig...@gmail.com; Mobile phone: +234 (0) 8034959317

 

Conference Registration Fee: N8, 000.00 only (for participants from within Nigeria); $100 only (for participants from outside Nigeria), to cover conference materials and customized bag, and  tea/coffee  break.

 

Ademola Omobewaji DASYLVA,PhD
Professor of African Literature & Oral Literature

Visiting Professor of African Literature,
Department of English
Redeemer's University,
Mowe, Km. 46, Lagos/Ibadan Express Way.
Mobile: +234 (0)802 350 4755
+234 (0)706 226 4090

Web: arts.ui.edu.ng/aodasylva
E-mail: a.da...@ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org
a.da...@mail.ui.edu.ng
dasy...@yahoo.com