Postponement of the ISA 2020 Enugu Annual International Conference and Business Meeting, due to COVID-19

Chidi Igwe Published: April 30, 2020, 5:14 p.m. Updated: Dec. 21, 2024, 5:14 p.m. 42 0 0 0

To All ISA Members:

I hope this memorandum finds you safe, strong, and healthy. Life’s complications abound at home and at work. Today, as parents cum teachers, we are remotely doing our best to help students take their classes virtually, a drastic shift in orientation that has placed enormous demands of time, effort and new technology on teachers and students alike.

As a result, we need to go beyond the interim measures we had envisaged would see us through Enugu 2020, when I wrote to you on March 14, 2020. Today, I write to announce some necessary and immediate changes in the ISA calendar year 2020-2021, due to the continuing ravages worldwide of COVID-19, the contagious, infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. I recognize that this will be very disappointing news to all of us, but our focus on the welfare, safety and health of our community of academics, scholars and students makes it impossible to hold our annual conference and meeting this year as scheduled.

The Igbo Studies Association (USA) must postpone its upcoming Annual Conference and Business Meeting scheduled to hold in Enugu, Nigeria, June 18-20, 2020, and reschedule it for June 17-19, 2021.

You will be receiving more communications from the program director as necessary.

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Thank you!

Dr. Mrs. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
President, Igbo Studies Association (USA)