Conferences & Other Events on Africa
Anticipated & Online Events
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association 18th Triennial Conference Online, June 2021
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies--AEGIS Thematic Conference Online: "Africa Knows!: It is Time to Decolonise Minds," December 2, 2020 -- February 28, 2021 (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University)
- African Film Festival of New York --Online, December 2-9, 2020 (New York)
The New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) was launched in 1993. Film Society of Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Maysles Cinema Institute have become principal hosts of the festival.
--See also:
Archives--Films from past festivals
- African Studies Association of the United States: 63rd Annual Meeting Online--"The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies." November 19-21, 2020. (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
--2020 ASA Preliminary Program
- African Studies Centre, Leiden University -- Events, Seminars, and Conferences (Leiden, The Netherlands)
--See especially: "Africa 2020" Conferences, Film Screenings, and Workshops
- African Union/Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: 1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa, May 12-14, 2021, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
--"Call for Papers": The deadline for paper abstracts is January 31, 2021.
- Afrolit Sans Frontières Literary Festival, March-August 2020 (via James Marua Literature Blog, Nairobi, Kenya)
- Season 1, March 23-30, 2020
- Season 2, April 20-27, 2020
- Season 3, May 25-June 1, 2020
- Season 4, June 29--July 6, 2020
- Season 5, July 27-August 3, 2020
- "Arabic Script Manuscripts in Africa," Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt ...Postponed until 2021!. Co-sponsored by Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the library’s Manuscript Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation.
- Brazil-Africa Forum Online--"Overcoming the Challenges of the Pandemic: What's Next?" November 3-4, 2020. (Brazil-Africa Institute, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil ; Accra, Ghana)
- Canadian Association of African Studies: Annual Conference "Achieving Ubuntu: Reframing Equity, Partnership, and Change." June 6-9, 2021, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
--The deadline for abstracts is December 1, 2020!
- Columbia University -- African -and- African Diaspora Studies Events (New York)
- "Comparing the Copperbelt: Social History and Knowledge Production in Central Africa," June 17-19, 2021, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
The "call for papers" deadline for proposals is October 15, 2020.
- Cornell University, Institute for African Development: IAD Seminar Series (Ithaca, 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.
- European Conference on African Studies: 9th Biennial ECAS Conference "African Futures" May 31--June 3, 2021, University of Cologne, Germany
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Igbo Studies Association: 18th Annual Conference--"Igbo World, Igbo Condition." June 17-19, 2021, Enugu, Nigeria
- Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University: "Drought, Floods, and Rainfall in the Indian Ocean World." ...Postponed until 2021! (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- ISOLA--International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa: 13th International Conference--"Transitions, Transformations, and Translocations in African Oral Traditions and (Re)Imagined Boundaries." Nairobi, Kenya ...Postponed until 2021!
- Mande Studies Association: 11th International MANSA Conference -- "Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle, and Social Change in West Africa," January 13-17, 2021, Uppsala, Sweden (via Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)
- Musée des Civilisations Noires : Premier Anniversaire du MCN--"Mutations", du 6 au 21 décembre 2019, Dakar, Sénégal
--Veuillez voir aussi: le site du MCN
- New York University, Africa House: Events (New York)
- The Royal African Society: Events (London, UK)
--See also: Film Africa 2020, October 30--November 8, 2020
- Rutgers University: Center for African Studies -- News & Events (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
--See also: "Translating Africa/Africa in Translation Intercollegiate Symposium, April 1-2, 2020. Organized by the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures
- SOAS--School of Oriental and African Studies: Centre of African Studies -- Events (University of London, London, UK)
- Society of Africanist Archaeologists: SAFA 2021 25th Biennial Meeting--"African Archaeology: A 20:20 Vision for the Future," September 2021, University of Oxford, UK
- Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations: SCECSAL XXIV Conference--"Inclusive Lbraries and Information Services Toward Achieving Prosperity for Sustainable Development in Africa," February 8-12, 2021, Windhoek, Namibia
- Stanford University -- Center for African Studies: Africa Table (Stanford, California)
- 2021 Toronto Black Film Festival, February 10-21, 2021 (Canada)
"...created in 2013 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, a not-for-profit, professional, artistic organization dedicated to promoting Cinema, Art and Culture in Canada and abroad."
--See also:
Festival International Black de Montréal
- 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)