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Bridge the Divide Converge Conference in USA

October 9, 2017
Conferences
Bridge the Divide Converge Conference conference for high school and college students, Converge will bring students together across party lines for a day of political discourse, guest speakers, and intriguing w... Read More...

Language and Democracy Conference 2017, Finland

August 7, 2017
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We are pleased to announce an international conference on Language and Democracy organized by the Modern Language Society, to be held at the University of Tampere on 24-26 August 2017. To celebrate the 130th... Read More...

CFP: 15th Intl Conference of Teaching English Language & Literature Society of Iran

August 3, 2017
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English Language Teaching Department of the Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch is proud to announce 15th International TELLSI Conference to be held on November 22-24, 2017. The conference aims to delve int... Read More...

12th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, 2018

July 29, 2017
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The Conference will address topics from the fields of "English Literature" "British and Cultural Comparative Studies" "Translation Studies" "Linguistics and ELT" The Conference will be jointly ho... Read More...

CFP: Precarity, Populism and Post-Truth Politics

July 29, 2017
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This three-day event—a two-day conference followed by a workshop on the third day— aims to interrogate the multiple and overlapping global processes underlying three emergent relational fields or modes of enqui... Read More...

CFP: VIII Annual LANGSA Conference: “Shaping the Future”

July 28, 2017
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SHAPING THE FUTURE is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Languages Graduate Student Association of the University of Connecticut. The conference will take place at the University of Connecticut, Stor... Read More...

CFP: ICT for Language Learning – 10th Edition

July 26, 2017
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The 10th edition of the ICT for Language Learning International Conference will take place in Florence, Italy, on 9 - 10 November 2017. The objective of the ICT for Language Learning Conference is to promote t... Read More...

4th International Conference on Social Sciences (ICOSS 2017)

July 24, 2017
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The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Sri Lanka takes pride in inviting you to send in your abstract for the 4th International Conference on Social Sciences (ICOSS 2017). Conference Date 21st –... Read More...

57th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association 2017 – African Business: Penetrating through Institution Building

July 19, 2017
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The 57th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) scheduled to hold in Lagos, Nigeria, from 18 – 24 August 2017, (under the distinguished leadership of the NBA President A.B. Mahmoud OON,... Read More...

SPSP 11th Annual International Conference and General Assembly 2017 – Collaborating For Sustainable Peace in Nigeria

July 19, 2017
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The 11th International Conference of SPSP will hold at Babcock University, Lagos-Benin expressway, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, July 23-25, 2017. In addition to affording members the usual opportunity of presentin... Read More...

ICOPH 2017: 3rd International Conference on Public Health 2017

July 18, 2017
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The 3rd International Conference on Public Health (ICOPH 2017) will be held from 27th , 28th & 29th July 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia under the theme “Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure towar... Read More...

CMCS Perth 2017 – Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism

July 16, 2017
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CALL FOR PAPERS Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia December 8-10, 2017 With the rise of Web 2.0, people brand t... Read More...
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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.

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