Conferences & Other Events on Africa
Anticipated & Online Events
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
- African Diaspora International Film Festival (New York)
- NYADIFF 2022 Festival, November 25--December 11, 2022
- NYADIFF Virtual Festival "Transcultural Dialogues," April 22-25, 2022
- ADIFF 2021: African Diaspora International Film Festival -- November 26-December 21, 2021, New York
Events held throughout the year in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In New York, the screenings and other events are held in various venues, including Columbia University Teachers College & Symphony Space Theater (in Manhattan)
- African Language Teachers' Association (ALTA) (via Columbia University, New York)
General information on the organization, its annual conferences, and its other activities.
- African Studies Association of Africa: "ASAA 2022: Africa and the Human: Old Questions, New Imaginaries," April 11-16, 2022---Online and at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
- African Studies Association of the United States (Piscataway, New Jersey)
65th Annual Meeting of the ASA--"African Urbanities: Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges," November 17-19, 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
--Final Program for 2022 Annual Meeting
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Association of Contemporary African Linguistics: 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 53) Online, April 7-9, 2022. (University of California, San Diego)
Abstract deadline: November 30, 2021
- Associazione per gli studi Africani in Italia: Call for Papers -- VI Biennial Conference, "Third Millennium, Africas in the Global World. Challenges, Reconfigurations and Opportunities," June 29-July 1, 2022 at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. (Bologna, Italy)
--The deadline for proposals is March 3, 2022. See also: ASAI Home Page
- Canadian African Studies Association: CAAS Conference 2022 -- "African Societies and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization: Practices, Challenges, Perspectives," May 16-19, 2022 -- Zoom Conference
- Columbia University -- African -and- African Diaspora Studies Events (New York)
- Cornell University, Institute for African Development: IAD Events (Ithaca, New York)
- DAK'ART 2022: La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, du 19 mai au 21 juin 2022, Dakar, Sénégal
- French Colonial Historical Society: 46th Annual Meeting--"Transatlantic Diasporas", 12-14 May 2022, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
--Proposals are accepted between September 30 and November 15, 2021.
- Ghana Studies Association: The 4th Triennial Conference 'Ghana at Crossroads', July 18-20, 2022, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
--Proposals are due by December 20, 2021.
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- The Royal African Society: Events (London, UK)
- Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- News & Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
- Festival Saint-Louis Jazz 2022 (Saint-Louis, Sénégal)
30ème Édition du Festival Saint-Louis Jazz 2022, du 2 au 6 juin 2022
- SOAS--School of Oriental and African Studies: Centre of African Studies -- Events (University of London, London, UK)
- Stanford University -- Center for African Studies: Africa Table (Stanford, California)
- "Technology and Material Culture in African History: Challenges and Potentials for Research and Teaching," January 4 – 8, 2023, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania---"Call for Papers" (via HNet--Humanities and Social Sciences Online, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
Organized by the History Department at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the ERC-funded research project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands.
--The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2022.
- United Nations "International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024" (UN Dept. of Public Information, New York)
- 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: "Les contributions de l'Afrique et ses diasporas à la civilisation du monde" = "Africa and its Diasporas’ Contributions to World Civilization." Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal, du 26 au 29 juin 2023. En collaboration avec l’Institut supérieur des arts et des cultures, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal. (Toronto, Canada)
--Date limite pour recevoir les résumés : 15 décembre, 2022.