You can submit your abstract through the online abstract submission system below.
Abstracts should focus on, and indicate one of the Conference topics:
• Igbo entrepreneurship and transnational business
• Military rule and the ‘brain drain’
• The ‘been-to’ figure in literature & film
• Diaspora writing, music & film
• Igbo music in the local and global market
• Igbo language and cultural presences in digital spaces
• Traversing national borders: issues of migration
• Hometown associations
• Xenophobia and Igbo communities abroad
• Igbo mobilities within Nigeria
• Nollywood films & their global circulation: iROKOtv, DStv & Netflix
• The river Niger & movement across West Africa
• Medicine and Health Matters
• Refugees & the Nigeria-Biafra war
• Igbo cultural production & the global market
• Igbo spirituality in the Americas
• Igbo language: differences in dialect & language in motion
• Igbo knowledge production & knowledge exchange
• The literature of Igbo writers in translation
• Trade and the development of Igbo towns & cities: Onitsha, Aba & Abiriba
• The Nsukka school of art & international gallery spaces
• Igbo Business incubation systems and Apprenticeship
The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday January 31, 2020 Sunday 15th March, 2020 . Abstracts received after that date will not be evaluated.
General rules:
- Abstract text is limited to 250 words.
- Abstracts should be written in English.
- Abstracts should be prepared in Microsoft Word (Font style: Calibri; Type size: 10 pt; Single spaced).
- The Abstract title, names of Authors with respective degree(s), affiliation and email addresses must be stated exactly as you wish them to appear in the program. Indicate with an asterisk (*) who will be presenting.
- The name and the email address of the Submitting author should be provided. Note that only the email address of the submitting author will be used for all communications regarding the abstract submission.
- Abstracts should contain three Keywords.
- Figures, tables and illustrations may not be included in the abstract.
- Submitters are responsible for all typing errors on the abstract.
We have a committee of international academics who review the large number of abstracts we usually receive, and so we ask that you keep to the guidelines above, to enable the abstract team do their job effectively.
You will be required to register for the online abstract submission system below, if you haven’t already done so.
