THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIMI WARIBOKO: CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
PANEL 1: A Critical Analysis of Religion and Economics
4:00am – 5:30am CT
Chair: Serges Kamga (University of South Africa)
Participants:
1. Monte Lee Rice (Asia Pacific Theological Seminary)
- Topic: Pentecostalism and a critical analysis of Nimi Wariboko's The Split God
2. Abebe Ano (Osmania University)
- Topic: The history of Shinasha and economic life in northwestern Ethiopia
3. Hadje Sadje (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
- Topic: Critical theories in Pentecostalism and Filipino Pentecostal beliefs
4. Bourouayah Mohamed (Former Teacher and Vice-Rector of Emir Abdelkader University)
- Topic: The impact of religion on finances and monastic transactions through an examination of Nimi Wariboko's Religion and the Morality of the Market
5. Chammah J. Kaunda (The College of Theology at Yonsei University)
- Topic: An interrogation of Nimi Wariboko's notion of "the split"
PANEL 2: Exploring Meaning, Truth, and Spirituality
5:30am – 7:00am CT
Chair: Sabelo J. Ndlovu Gatsheni (Beyrouth University)
Participants:
1. Adeshina Afolayan (University of Ibadan)
- Topic: Understanding Pentecostalism through Nimi Wariboko's The Pentecostal Hypothesis
2. Aleke Matthew (Kogi State University Ayigba)
- Topic: The challenges for Christianity in Africa
3. Mosigbodi Baimdele Amuda (University of Ibadan)
- Topic: The Yoruba's understanding of truth
4. Martina Iyabo Oguntoyinbo-Atere
- Topic: African traditional religions and the diaspora
5. Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju (Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems)
- Topic: An examination of Nimi Wariboko's Acknowledgment Pages
PANEL 3: Where Africa's Traditions and Evolutions Meet
7:00am – 8:30am CT
Chair: Samuel Zalanga (Bethel University)
Participants:
1. Chukwugoziam Onianwah (Mbonny Technical Services Limited)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's greatness and mark on the world
2. Olubayo Olubenga Obijole (University of Ibadan)
- Topic: An examination of Nimi Wariboko's views on female leadership in African Pentecostalism
3. Sarwuan Daniel Shishima (Benue State University)
- Topic: African Traditional Medicine and Religion
4. Andrew Phillips Adega (Benue State University)
- Topic: Witches, wizards, and sorcerers according to traditional African beliefs
5. Annalisa Butticci (Georgetown University)
- Topic: The ethics of "immanence" in Nigerian Pentecostalism and African traditional religions
6. Patrick Kofi Amissah (University of South Wales, Cardiff Campus)
- Topic: Philosophical and religious understandings of social justice in Africa
WELCOME & KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9:00am – 10:30am CT
MC: Sam Oloruntoba, University of Carleton
Chair: Ruth Marshall (Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Welcome:
1. Elizabeth Mary Moore (Dean, School of Theology, Boston University)
2. Tim Longman (Director, CURA and African Studies Center, Boston University)
Book Presentation: Toyin Falola (The University of Texas at Austin)
Keynote Speaker: Mark Lewis Taylor (Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary at Princeton University)
PANEL 4: Understanding Religious Africa
11:00am – 12:00pm CT
Chair: Akin Ogundiran (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Participants:
1. Benson Ohihon Igboin (Adekunle Ajasin University) and Abimbola Adelakun (University of Texas at Austin)
- Topic: Accountability in Nigeria's Pentecostal Church
2. Benson Ohihon Igboin (Adekunle Ajasin University)
- Topic: Connecting with African ancestors in the present
3. Anita Aba Ansah (University of Oslo)
- Topic: African Pentecostalism's roots in traditional African religion
4. George Kotei Neequaye (Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra)
- Topic: African work before and after colonialism, focusing on the Kalabari
5. Creighton Dugan Coleman (University of Virginia)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's use of discernment in The Pentecostal Principle, Nigerian Pentecostalism, and The Split God
6. Marcus Harvey (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
- Topic: The epistemology of African traditional religions
PANEL 5: Resistance and Restoration
1:00pm – 2:30pm CT
Chair: Fallou Ngom (Boston University)
Participants:
1. Tony Baugh (Recent Graduate from the Boston University School of Theology)
- Topic: Blackness as a site of resistance to oppression
2. Gerald Ellis (University of Massachusetts at Boston)
- Topic: Neoliberalism and student debt – how Christological models can help
3. Michael Austin Kamenicky (Lee University)
- Topic: The aesthetics of Pentecostalism, from the perspective of three scholars
4. Taylor Thomas (Boston University)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's Tillichian understanding of money, in the context of Appalachian poverty
5. Nick Rodriguez (Boston University School of Theology)
- Topic: The United States should enact some sort of universal basic income in order to address the Covid-19 crisis
6. Siphiwe Dube (Wits University)
PANEL 6: Narratives of Religion
3:00pm – 4:30pm CT
Chair: Andrew Barnes (Arizona State University)
Participants:
1. David Olali (Comparative Heritage Project)
- Topic: Prosperity theologies in Africa
2. Devaka Premawardhana (Emory University)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's important contributions to understanding Pentecostalism
3. Segun Ogungbemi (Adekunle Ajasin University)
- Topic: African narratives of death, burial, and afterlife
4. Scott Paeth (DePaul University)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's approach to ecology, economics, and justice
5. Anna Droll (Fuller Theological Seminary)
- Topic: Dreams and visions in Pentecostalism
6. Andrew Court (Moore Theological College and Life Anglican Church)
- Topic: Prosperity theologies and African traditional religions
7. Erica Ramirez (Auburn Seminary)
- Topic: Nimi Wariboko's reading of the Lacanian splits
CLOSING PLENARIES
5:00pm – 6:30pm CT
Chair: Nimi Wariboko (Boston University)
1. Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto)
2. Femi Vaughn (Amherst College)
3. Ebenezer Obadare (The University of Kansas)
FINAL REFLECTIONS
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Chair: Boladei Igali (University of Port Harcourt)
Toyin Falola, The University of Texas at Austin
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