Conferences & Other Events on Africa
Anticipated & Online Events
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association 18th Triennial Conference, June 17-21, 2020, Chicago, Illinois.
The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2019.
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
- General announcement and contact information. All nominations have been received, a short list drawn up by a jury, and the 100 titles were announced on February 18, 2002.
See a copy of the list of 100.
- H-Africa Discussion List on "Africa's 100 Best Books", 2000-2002 (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University: Web Dossier on "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century" (2002) (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- African Economic History Network: 14th Annual Meeting of the AEH Network, October 18-19, 2019, University of Barcelona, Spain
--See AEHN Home Page (via Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
- African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific: "Africa: Diversity and Development," November 26-27, 2019, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Annual Conference of ASAUK, September 8-10, 2020, Cardiff University, UK
The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2019.
- 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)
- ASWAD--Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora -- 10th Biennial Conference, November 5-9, 2019, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (via New York University, New York)
- Columbia University -- African -and- African Diaspora Studies Events (New York)
- DAK'ART 2020: La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, du 28 mai au 28 juin 2020, Dakar, Sénégal
14ème édition -- 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.
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- 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": The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2019.
- 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)
- 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)