By Juliana Olajide
The Gender Studies Association of Nigeria (GSAN) has endorsed the hosting rights of her 8th International Conference to the University of Jos.
This is the first time the conference will hold in the Northern part of the country between the 17th to 20th April 2024.
The conference theme SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: INCLUSITY, OPPORTUNITIES AND HARVESTS shall be discussed from the lens of intergender including the boychild education.
A world renowned scholar in science education and gender, Prof. Ben Akpan FSTAN, the Executive Director of Science Teachers Association of Nigeria is to deliver the key note paper at this conference.
The Gender friendly Vice Chancellor of University of Jos, Prof Tanko Ishaya, FBCS, FNCS, the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Barr. Caleb M Mutfwang and the Dean of the Faculty of Education Prof. Joseph Maina Musa PEAN shall be the Chief Host, Special Guest of Honour and the Host of the conference respectively.
In an interview with the chairman of the Local Organizing Committee Prof. Emeka D Ozoji Fgsan, our correspondent was assured that early arrangements for a bumper conference has since started as the conference is expected to be the biggest and most well attended ever in the history of GSAN conferences and that his committee will take profound measures to ensure its set goals are fully achieved.
The highlights of the opening ceremony shall include the induction of GSAN Fellows, and the inauguration of the Plateau State Chapter of GSAN, and her Students Wing (REALISTICSCOPE),
Prof. Ozoji extends special invitation to STAN members to attend the conference to identify with their Executive Director, the academia to present well researched papers, Gender activists to send good will messages to GSAN and the public to welcome the National Exco, Chapters and participants are expected from all over the country and beyond.
He promised scholars that a Book of Abstracts will be published in addition to peer reviewed papers in GSAN indexed journals.
The erudite Professor Ozoji, the 2023 GSAN Festschrift awardee further hinted that the conference will “provide a forum for academics, professionals, curriculum and Gender studies experts as well researchers, teachers, students and other stakeholders to share and cross-fertilize ideas on global gender issues.
Finally, the LOC chairman emphasized that the highpoint of the conference shall be a transformative workshop on academic writing specifically for Postgraduate students and emerging scholars.
The workshop promises to be a profound watershed in their academic careers, Prof. Ozoji concluded.
