November 02, 2001 (Venue: Rockaway River Country Club, Denville, NJ. 1.5 miles from Hampton Inn )

3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.: Delegates check in at Hampton Inn

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Dinner Meeting: Editorial & Management Committee and Specially Invited Guests

8:00 p.m.: Cocktail Reception and Introduction of Guests

November 03, 2001 (Venue: Rockaway River Country Club)

Opening Session: 8:30 - 12:30

7:00 a.m. Breakfast. & Registration

8:30 a.m.: Opening Prayers

9:00 a.m. Special Guest of Honour's Address: His Excellency, Chief James O. Ibori, Governor,  Delta State, Nigeria.
Chair: Senator David O. Dafinone, President, Union of Niger Delta and Urhobo National Assembly(To Be Confirmed)

 10:00 a.m.: Keynote Address

Address By Professor Bruce Onobrakpeya, Independent Artist, Lagos, Nigeria
Chair: His Excellency,  Chief James O. Ibori, Governor,  Delta State, Nigeria.

10:50 a.m. Break
 

First Plenary Session: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30
 

 Themes:
 Origins of the Urhobo
 Urhobo and Her Neighbours.

 Chair: Professor Isaac James Mowoe, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

 Panelists:
Professor Adeline Apena-Obodo, Russel Sage College, Albany, USA: "Connections and Disconnections in Isoko-Urhobo Relations. Identity and Development in Nigeria's Western Delta"

Rachel Ejiro Akpotu, "Let Us Build Urhobo Financial Infracstructure"

(Open)

            Luncheon Address By Chief Johnson Ukueku, Vice-President, Urhobo National Assembly
 

Second Plenary Session: 3:00 - 6:00  p.m.

 Theme:
 Environment & Sustainable Development in the Niger Delta.

 Chair: Professor Jackson Omene

Panelists:
Professor Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor, Michigan State University, East Lansing (Title To Be Provided in Another Announcement)

(Open)

(Open)
 

November 4, 2001 (Venue: Rockaway River Country Club)

 7:00 a.m. Breakfast

Third Plenary Session: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

 Themes:
 Continuity and Change in Urhobo Traditional Rulership
 Urhobo Women
 Arts and Cultural Heritage

 Chair: (Open)

 Panelists:

Professor Perkins Foss, Plymouth State College of the University of New Hampshire: "Elders, Mothers and Brides: Images of Women in Urhobo Art."

Professor Peter Ekeh, State University of New York at Buffalo: "Does Urhobo Need Twenty-Two Kingdoms?"

(Open)

Communiqué

Registration Fees

1.      $50.00 (Family rate, including children under 18 years old)
2.      $10.00 Students (18 years and above)

Call for Papers

You are invited to present papers on any of the topics indicated above. If you would like to present a paper, but cannot attend, you can designate someone who is attending to present your paper for you. It would be greatly appreciated if you could advise me of your availability to attend the Meeting & Conference as soon as possible, but later than August 15, 2001.

Furthermore, if you intend to present a paper, please send me a two-page abstract of your proposed paper not later than August 15, 2001.

Thank you for your service to Urhoboland.

O. Igho Natufe
Deputy Chair, UHS
Chair, Conference Committee
July 15, 2001

Conference Committee:
Dr. Igho Natufe, Chair, inatufe@NRCan.gc.ca
Mr. Larry Arhagba, lawval2@yahoo.com
Professor Peter P. Ekeh, peterekeh@adelphia.net
Professor Isaac James Mowoe, mowoe.2@osu.edu
Dr. Aruegodore Oyiborhoro, oyiboa@juno.com