Education

Professor Oladosu Set to Deliver UI Inaugural Lecture Today

By Web News 1161

Today is the D-Day for the much publicized University of Ibadan’s inaugural lecture by an Islamic scholar,  a cultural critic and a public affairs analyst, Professor Afiz Oladosu. 

Professor Oladosu will be speaking on the topic ” Arab-Islamism, Afrabism and Contrapuntal Criticism ” at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan commencing from 5 o’clock in the evening.

According to Professor Oladosu, the lecture will focus on his research works  both in Nigeria and overseas which border on Arab-Islamism, Arab Muslim Modernities as well as Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Professor Oladosu who is the Dean, Faculty of Arts of the university explained that the inaugural lecture will touch some insights on his contributions to the field of Arabic and Islamic studies, contributions to the field of African Studies and a contrapuntal reading of his work as well as its deployment as a tool of analyses of urgent issues of national importance.

Expected at the lecture under the chairmanship of the Acting Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Professor Adebola Ekanola are academics, policy makers, religious leaders, cultural icons,  traditional and community leaders as well as students both undergraduates and postgraduates.

The don, who is from the Department  of Arabic and Islamic Studies, is the fourth Professor in the over 60 year old department to deliver such inaugural lecture, the four hundred and eighty-ninth (489th) edition of University of Ibadan.

The lecture can be joined live through zoom platform: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83225888822?pwd=OHhsek4vWVB0SXZDL0VTdEtOWTRkdz09

Meeting ID: 832 2588 8822

Passcode: 928817

Ridwan Fasasi 

Education

Oladosu Delivers 489th UI Inaugural Lecture April 15

By Web News 1261

All is set for the 489th in the series of the University of Ibadan inaugural lecture to be delivered by Afis Ayinde Oladosu, a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan. 

The lecture will be held on Thursday April 15, 2021 under the chairmanship of the Acting Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Professor Adebola Ekanola, at the Trenchard Hall of the university.

A cultural critic, Professor Oladosu scholarly horizon and expertise covers Arab-Islamism, Arab-Muslim Modernities and Middle-Eastern and North African Studies. 

He will be speaking on the topic: “Arab-Islamism, Afrabism and Contrapuntal Criticism”.

 Professor Oladosu, a member of the Governing Board, National University Commission (NUC), has also participated in and presented papers in local and international conferences and seminars on Arab-Islamic culture, terrorism, peace-building, gender in Arab societies, law and religion and on globalization.

 He has served and still serves as external examiner for under- graduate programmes and as assessor for professorial promotions for universities in and outside Nigeria including the International Islamic University, Malaysia (IIUM) and University of The Gambia, Banjul. 

Before his promotion to the rank of Professor at the University of Ibadan in 2011, Oladosu had competed for and won the following international fellowships and scholarships: 2006 Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Southern Maine and Southern Maine Community College (SMCC), United States; 2007 Bill Gates Scholarship and Fellowship of African Scholar Program among others. 

He is also a member of many learned societies including American Studies Association (ASA), United States, Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Nigerian Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS), Association of Professional Translators of English-Arabic in Universities (APETAU) and so on.

 According to the erudite scholar, Nigeria will realise its destiny and achieve its potentials only when concerted efforts are made by Ministries, Directorates and Agencies (MDAs) of government to remove all policies and regulations that constitute infractions of the nation’s constitution. 

He added that the promotion of peaceful relationships among the various ethnic and religious identities and communities in Nigeria by government agencies is a sine- qua-non for development and advancement. 

According to Professor Oladosu, one of his philosophies in life is to always be committed to the production of human capital without which  no nation can develop.

Ridwan Fasasi