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Watjcentre Lecture Series

The WATJCentre Lecture Series was initiated as a means of bridging the gap between scholars and practitioners in the field of transitional justice and creates a platform for renowned experts to share their wealth of experience on transitional justice initiatives across different parts of the globe

The Residuum of Memory: The Holocaust in African Atrocity Literatures and Cultures

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WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Associate Professor of English, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Moderator: Stephanie O. Adams Douglas, Senior Programme Manager, HumAngle Foundation, Nigeria Date: July 30, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/OY5Ky_drSvOrBMUEBqOVNQ

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Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

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Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He has scholarly interests in African and African/Black Diaspora literatures. His scholarship primarily focuses on the cultural representations of genocides and mass atrocities within African and African diasporic contexts. Anyaduba is the author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel:

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Decoloniality and Development in African Literary Tradition

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WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Dr Adaobi Nkeokelonye, Visiting Lecturer, African University of Science and Technology; Research Fellow, WATJCentre, Nigeria Moderator: Dr Ndidi Njoku, Research and Policy Manager, Nextier, Nigeria Date: April 16, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/A5_TSyMdS4qITZqnkvY25A

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Movement as Method: Bridging Scholarship, Community and Activism

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WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Krystal Strong,Associate Professor of Black Studies in Education, Rutgers University, USA Moderator: Dr Monica E. Akokuwebe, Senior Researcher, SAMRC, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Date: January 15, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/Hhh3IS42RLuoW9ubjhseqA?fbclid=IwY2xjawPjGD5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyYzBsMGpvYjNkYlE0Znhpc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHp0WCARUocwIdxNrB7QpdNQedsVOWUNyqbiE15p0UjQemc3at9Y1SqAX7BhF_aem_J-3OQulXco_JlWjS1JnPUw#/registration

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Dr Krystal Strong

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Dr. Krystal Strong is an associate professor of Black Studies in Education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An anthropologist by training, her research and teaching use ethnographic, participatory, and multimodal methods to investigate youth and community activism, global Black social movements, and the role of education as a site of struggle in Africa and the African

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Our Future is NOT Their Future: Sola Olorunyomi on African Futurity

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  WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Prof Sola Olorunyomi, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Moderator: Dr Anthony Agbegbedia, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria Date: October 2, 2025 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/XsTOxkpIRLmB8dvMLnLXVQ

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Professor Mfon Umoren Ekpootu

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Professor Mfon Umoren Ekpootu is a distinguished Professor of Gender and Socioeconomic History in the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her career reflects a deep and enduring commitment to academic excellence, intellectual rigor, and gender-focused historical inquiry. A widely travelled scholar, Professor Ekpootu’s work transcends traditional disciplinary

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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women and Political Followership in South South Nigeria

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  WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Prof Mfon Ekpootu, Professor of Gender and Socioeconomic History, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Moderator: Dr Abimbola Stephen-Adesina, Ag. HoD, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan; Research Fellow, WATJCentre, Nigeria Date: July 24, 2025 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/OM-BkxALSx-Jy649Ykozdw

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