OPPORTUNITIES

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships (for low and middle income countries)

February 4, 2018

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for candidates from low and middle income Commonwealth countries, for full-time doctoral study at a UK university. Funded by the UK Department for International Development ... Read More...

AussieWritings Essay Writing Contest 2018

January 3, 2018

Essay Competition

You like writing, but your talent stays unrecognized? You want to pursue a writing career, you like to express own thoughts or simply want to get money by means of your intelligence? Then this is a great opport... Read More...

BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition 2018

December 30, 2017

Competition

Now in its fifth year, BigPicture encourages photographers from around the world to contribute their work to this competition that will both celebrate and illustrate the rich diversity of life on Earth, and ins... Read More...

2018 Crossing the Boundaries Graduate Student Conference

December 30, 2017

Conferences

Binghamton University's Art History Graduate Student Union seeks Dreamreaders (as in Haruki Murakami's dystopian novel Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World) and others, from multiple discipli... Read More...

3rd INTH Network Conference

December 30, 2017

Conferences

The International Network for Theory of History (INTH) is happy to announce that its third network conference will take place in Stockholm from August 20th-22nd, 2018, at Södertörn University. The goal ... Read More...

Future News Worldwide 2018

December 30, 2017

Training

Are you the future of journalism? APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR FUTURE NEWS WORLDWIDE 2018 Future News Worldwide is a partnership programme between the British Council and some of the world's leading media or... Read More...

Global Minds PhD Scholarship Program at KU Leuven in Belgium, 2018

December 30, 2017

Scholarship

KU Leuven is inviting applications for Global Minds PhD Scholarship Program. These scholarships are available for developing countries students to obtain their PhD from the largest university of Belgium. The ... Read More...

The 6th Annual English Graduate Student Association’s Literary Conference

December 30, 2017

Conferences

The 6th Annual English Graduate Student Association’s Literary Conference at The University of Texas at Arlington, April 5-6, 2018 "It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who l... Read More...

UN SDG Action Challenge Awards 2018 in Germany

December 27, 2017

Awards

The UN SDG Action Challenge Awards recognize outstanding achievement and innovative efforts to promote action on the sustainable development goals. In order to achieve Agenda 2030, The UN will need to learn ... Read More...

The 2nd International Conference on Postcolonial Theory and Practice in the 21st century

December 27, 2017

Call for papers

Re-Imagining the Limits of the Human University of Rzeszów, Poland, April 12-13, 2018 Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2018 Keynote speakers: Julia Fiedorczuk (University of Warsaw), Dorota Kołodziejczy... Read More...

39th APEAA Meeting, University of Évora, Portugal: 26-28 April 2018

December 27, 2017

Call for papers

The University of Évora, through its Department of Linguistics and Literatures (DLL), is pleased to announce the 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place i... Read More...

12th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 12) Budapest, Hungary, 25-26 May 2018

December 27, 2017

Call for papers

Understanding America in a Time of Change: 12th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 12) Budapest, Hungary, 25-26 May 2018 Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2018 Fac... Read More...

Aptly described by the Independent newspaper as “a man of many parts”, Dr Mahfouz A. Adedimeji is a Fulbright scholar, interdisciplinary researcher, university don, public affairs analyst, language specialist, communication consultant, peace advocate, interfaith worker and public intellectual. He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, where he is an Associate Professor of English (Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics). He started his academic career in 2000 at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, shortly after which he joined the services of his alma mater, the University of Ilorin.
A man of eclectic academic background, Dr Adedimeji was educated in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Markaz Shabaabil Islam, Iwo, Osun State and Markaz Ta’aleemil Araby, Agege, Lagos. He obtained advanced training in Education, Political Science, Communication and Media, Research and Peace Studies at the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) Virtual Institute for Higher Education Pedagogy (VIHEP); the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa (VIHEAF); Governors State University, University Park, Illinois, USA; University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana; and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
Apart from serving as a cultural ambassador to the US under the auspices of the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York, Dr Adedimeji has won or co-won the research and conference awards/grants of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) of the National Research Council, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). He has written extensively for a wide range of newspapers and periodicals including “Unilorin Bulletin”, “Unilorin Watch”, “DeLight”, “National Pilot”, “Daily Independent”, “Newswatch Times” and “New Telegraph”, among others.
A versatile academic, Associate Professor Adedimeji has attended academic conferences and undertaken research in several universities across Nigeria as well as in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Australia, France and United States of America, among others. His hundreds of academic, Islamic and general/opinion articles have been published across outlets in Nigeria and beyond. He has also facilitated and participated in seminars and workshops both nationally and internationally.
A former Deputy Director/ Head of the Directorate of Corporate Affairs of the University of Ilorin, Dr Adedimeji is the immediate past Director of the Centre for Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin. Apart from serving as Rappouteur-General to the Presidential Committee that organised the 2017 Federal Executive Council’s Retreat on Education in Nigeria, he has consulted for the Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC), the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence and Corps (NSCDC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). For years, he had been a Coordinator of the Executive Management Course of the Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAEC) and Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Peace, Security and Development”, University of Ilorin.
He is a recipient of several awards and honours including those of the American Biographical Institute, National Congress of Nigerian Students (NACONS), Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin, the Nigerian Army Education Corps, Postgraduate Students Association, UNILORIN, Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), UNILORIN, Students’ Union, UNILORIN, and National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS), just to mention a few.
A Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Administration, Nigeria, and Member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), Dr Adedimeji is a Member of the Executive Councils of both the University of Ilorin Alumni Association and English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN). He is also a Fellow of both the Society for Peace Studies and Practice and World Institute for Peace and he is a member of the Fulbright Alumni Association of Nigeria and the Association of Nigerian Authors, among others. He has written, co-written, edited and co-edited about a dozen books.