Conferences & Other Events on Africa
Anticipated & Online Events
- "Africa's Many Divides and Africa's Future" -- 2nd Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference, September 21-24, 2012, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
(via Kwantlen Polytechnical University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada)The deadline for proposals is March 30, 2012!
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
- General announcement, call for nominations, the final list of 100, and contact information. The 100 titles were announced on February 18, 2002.
- See a copy of the list of 100.
- H-Africa Discussion Forum, March 2002 (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- Africa Book Centre--Catalogue of 100 Best Book Award Winners (Brighton, UK)
- African Diaspora International Film Festival, 2011-2012, New York (ADIFF, New York)
-- See also: Best Docs of 2011, January 13-15, 2012
- 19th New York African Film Festival -- "21st Century The Homecoming": April 5-May 25, 2012 Co-sponsored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center (AFF, Inc., New York)
- African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: 2012 ASAUK Biennial Conference, 6-8 September 2012, Leeds University -- "Call for Papers" (Royal African Society, London, UK)
The deadline for paper proposals is April 27, 2012!
- African Studies Association of the United States: 2012 ASA Annual Meeting "Research Frontiers in the Study of Africa" November 29-December 1, 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (via Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
"Call for Papers": The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2012.
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences
(Leiden, The Netherlands)
- International Conference on "Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora," June 20-23, 2012, Dakar, Senegal (Co-sponsored by CODESRIA--Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, African Studies Centre--Leiden University, and the University of California African Studies Multicampus Research Group)
The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2011!
- Canadian Association of African Studies: CAAS Conference 2012--"Africa in Transformation, Africa of Individuals, Africa of Generations," May 2-4, 2012 (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
- Columbia University -- African Studies Events (New York)
- DAK'ART 2012: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, du 11 mai au 10 juin 2012, Dakar, Sénégal
Le 20ème anniversaire! L'exposition internationale d'Art Africain Contemporain de la Biennale de Dakar présentera le travaux de beaucoup d'artistes venus de plus que 20 pays d'Afrique et une Exposition Diaspora ...comprend un large éventail de stratégies d'expression allant de la peinture à l'installation, en passant par la performance, la sculpture, l'art vidéo et les média interactifs.
- New York University, Africa House: Events (New York)
- Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
- University of Pennsylvania: African Studies Center -- Events (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- West African Research Association & WARC Conferences: Summer Institutes & International Symposia (via African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
- Yale University: Council on African Studies -- Events (New Haven, Connecticut)
- York University, Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migration of African Peoples: Upcoming Events (Toronto, Canada)
