Conference announcement: Council of the Historical Society of Nigeria

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
We wish to inform you that the Council of the Historical
Society of Nigeria has fixed the 3rd week of October 2005
(i.e. 16-21 October 2005) for the Golden Jubilee Congress of
our Society at the University of Ibadan.

OPENING CEREMONY PROGRAMME:

MONDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2005
VENUE: CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
TIME: 10:00 A.M.
CHIEF HOST: PROF. OLUFEMI BAMIRO
ACTING VICE-CHANCELLOR
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROF. J. F. ADE AJAYO, FHSN, NNOM, FNAL
(EMERITUS PROGRESSOR OF HISTORY)
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

ROYAL FATHER OF THE DAY: HIS ROYAL MAJESTY
OBA LAMIDI OLAYIWOLA ADEYEMI III, J.P. CFP, LLD
SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR: SENATOR RASHIDI ADEWOLU LADOJA, FNSE
EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE

The theme for the Golden Jubilee Congress is “HISTORICAL
SOCIETY OF NIGERIA AT 50: REFLECTIONS ON THE DISCIPLINE OF
HISTORY”
The Sub-Themes are as follows:

1. The State of Historical Discipline in Nigeria
2. New Frontiers in Nigerian History
3. Nigerian Historians and Nigerian History
4. Reinvigorating the Historical Society of Nigeria
5. Reawakening Historical Awareness and Scholarship in
Nigeria
6. History, Historians and the crisis of relevance in Nigeria
7. History teaching in Nigeria Schools and Colleges
8. Historical Scholarship in Nigerian tertiary institution;
Challenges and Prospects
9. Promotion of Nigerian History outside Nigeria
10. History and National Development
11. History and Social Change in Nigeria
12. History and the Social Sciences
13. History Departments: What name, What nomenclature?

Interested participants at this conference are required to
submit abstracts of not more than 200 words on any of the
sub-themes.Abstracts/Papers may be submitted by e-mail to
either the Chairman or Secretary of the Local Organizing
Committee.

All members of the society and your Departments are invited
to attend the congress, which promises to be a carnival. We
hope you would in addition do everything possible to promote
the continued survival and development of the discipline. WE
rely on you to contribute meaningfully to the Golden Jubilee
Anniversary Conference.

The content of this circular should be brought to the
attention of all members of your Department as well as
historians in sister tertiary institutions in your locality.
For all enquiries about the congress, please address your
correspondence to either the Chairman or Secretary of the
Local Organizing Committee.

Dr.C.B.N Ogbodo
Chairman,
Local Organizing Committee
Dept of History,
University of Ibadan
Phone: 234-802 303 0901
Email: [email protected]

Dr.V.O.Edo
Secretary
LOC,
University of Ibadan
Phone: 234-805 522 1209
Email: [email protected]

SOME HIGHLIGHTS
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING/ELECTION OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
INVESTITURE OF FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY
ANNIVERSARY DINNER/AWARD NIGHT
EXCURSION! EXCURSION!! EXCURSION!!!
CULTURAL DISPLAY

Dear Sir/Madam,

GOLDEN JUBILEE CONGRESS OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NIGERIA:
APPEAL FOR SUPPORT.

The Historical Society of Nigeria, the umbrella body of
professional Historians in Nigeria, will be marking its fifty
years of existence this year (1955-2005). To mark this rare
feat, a Golden Jubilee Anniversary Conference has been slated
for the third week of October 2005, with the theme:
“Historical Society of Nigeria at 50: Reflections on the
Discipline of History”. It is hoped that the occasion will
reinvigorate historical consciousness and scholarship in
Nigeria.

The Society is remarkable in very many respects. Its founding
fathers at the then University College Ibadan, started and
nurtured the study of African History as a respectable and
worthy field of academic study in institutions of learning
all over the world . Also Historians have contributed
immensely to the challenge of nation building that Nigeria
was confronted with at Independence. They dotted the
administrative cadre in our Universities as Vice-Chancellors,
in our ministries as distinguished administrators and
technocrats, and even the banks and other sectors of the
Nigerian economy.

It is our belief that the present gloom in our affairs as a
country is partly attributable to the jettisoning of History
in our institutions of learning, with the consequence of a
withering of our sense of history as a people? To reverse
this trend, the 50th Anniversary Conference is focused
towards bringing about a resorgimento in the fortunes of
History as a discipline and its resuscitation in the psyche
of Nigerians.

Expectedly, the conference will attract scholars for within
and outside the country, especially as the Historical Society
of Nigeria played pioneering roles in the induction and
dispersal of African History as an intellectual discipline.
It is to this worthy course of assisting in the resurgence of
impacting a sense of History in our people that we are asking
that you be part of a noble task indeed.

We count very much on you and your organization in terms of
publicity and any other assistance you might be able to
render.

The Historical Society of Nigeria holds your Centre in very
high esteem and hopes that you will partner with it to host a
befitting and successful Golden Jubilee Anniversary
Conference.For further details contact.

R. S. V. P.
Dr. C.B.N. Ogbogbo Dr. V. O. Edo Dr. S. Ademola Ajayi
Chairman, LOC Secretary LOC Head, Dept. of History
Dept. of History Dept. of History University of Ibadan
University of Ibadan University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria