Conferences & Other Events on Africa
Anticipated & Online Events
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
- African Studies Association of the United States: 62nd Annual Meeting of the ASA--"Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa," November 21-23, 2019, Boston, Massachusetts (Piscataway, New Jersey)
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences
(Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Columbia University -- African -and- African Diaspora Studies Events (New York)
- Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery--Exhibition: "After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art," June 15--October 13, 2019
"...presents a selection of works engaging with the history of African socialisms. It features artists looking at countries including Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The exhibition is the first in North America to explore aesthetic responses to African socialisms and their aftermath."
- Institute of African Studies -- Events (All)
- Institute for Research in African American Studies--Events (All)
- School of the Arts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery: "20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619." Exhibition, August 30-September 30, 2019.
--See also: "An Exhibition Celebrates the Legacy of Jamestown: '20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619' at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Dodge Hall. Columbia News, August 21, 2019. (New York)
- 17th Annual Ghana International Book Fair, August 29-September 1, 2019, Accra, Ghana
The theme is “Reaching the World Market Through Effective Book Distribution Networks."
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Center for African Studies--Events & News
- Harvard University Divinity School, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program: "Africa, Globalization, and the Muslim Worlds," September 19-21, 2019, Harvard Divinity School -- "Call for Papers"
- "The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World," November 15, 2019, Harvard University --via H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
--"Call for Papers": the deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2019.
- Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University: "Drought, Floods, and Rainfall in the Indian Ocean World, May 7-8, 2020 Call for Papers (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- Lagos Studies Association: 5th Annual LSA Conference--"Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinunities," June 25-27, 2020, Lagos, Nigeria. (Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA; Lagos, Nigeria)
"Call for Papers"--The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2019.
- Mande Studies Association: 11th International MANSA Conference -- "Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle, and Social Change in West Africa," June 10-14, 2020, Uppsala, Sweden (via Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida) "Call for Papers"
- New York University, Africa House: Events (New York)
- Royal African Society: Events (London, UK)
- Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- News & Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: 2019 Lapidus Center Conference--"Enduring Slavery: Resistance, Public Memory, and Transatlantic Archives," October 10-12, 2019, New York
(The New York Public Library) Registration required.
- 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)
- TOFAC 2019: 9th Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora--"Religion, The State, and Global Politics," July 1-3, 2019, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria
--See Book of Abstracts 436 pages in PDF format
- 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)