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• The Africa-America Institute: AAI 2023 "State of Education on Africa" Virtual Conference: "Africa, the Global Climate Crisis, and Reparations," January 20, 2023. (New York) Videorecording.
  --See also: Recommended readings
• African Association for Lexicography: AFRILEX 2023: 27th International Conference, September 26-29, 2023, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  --Call for Papers: June 30, 2023 is the deadline
• African Association for the Study of Religions: 9th AASR Conference in Africa--"Creativity, Innovation, and Imagination in African Religions," August 2-4, 2023, University of Nairobi, Kenya
• African Diaspora International Film Festival, November 24-December 10, 2023 (NYADIFF, New York)
  
• African Economic History Network: 17th Annual AEHN Meeting--"Changes and Continuities in African Economic History: Mobilities, Environment, and Development," September 26-27, 2024, Sapienza Universita di Roma, ItalyIn association with Sapienza University of Rome and Fondazione Sapienza.
• African Economic History Network: 16th Annual AEHN Conference--"Agency in African Economic History," October 5-6, 2023, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  
• New York African Film Festival--31st Edition, May 8-30, 2024 (New York)
  "Under the banner Convergence of Time, NYAFF31 will celebrate with a program of over 90 films from more than 30 countries, with screenings taking place at three collaborating venues: Film at Lincoln Center (May 8-14); Maysles Cinema in Harlem (May 17-19), and Brooklyn Academy of Music (May 24-May 30)."
• African Film Festival 2023: "Freeforms," May 10-June 1, 2023, New York (NYAFF, New York)
  The festival will take place at Lincoln Center (Walter Reade Theater, May 10-16); Maysles Cinema in Harlem (May 19-21), and Brooklyn Academy of Music (May 26-June 1).
  --See also: Archives--Films from past festivals
• African Heritage Studies Association (East Point, Georgia) 53rd Annual AHSA Conference--Online, "Afrofuturism: Building on Our Heritage for a Better Tomorrow," October 22, 2022
• African Language Teachers' Association (ALTA) (via Columbia University, New York)
  General information on the organization, its annual conferences, and its other activities.  
  --See especially: ALTA 2023 Conference--Online: "African Languages and Changing Social Realities", April 14-15, 2023. Co-sponsored by Columbia University, Boston University, Harvard University, Howard University, Indiana University...[et al.].
  
• African Literature Association: 49th Annual Meeting of the ALA: Filiations and Affiliations: Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures," University of Louisville, Kentucky, May 23-25, 2024. (via Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, New York)
  
• African Literature Association: 2023 Annual Conference "Crossings: Africans Moving In/Across Space and Time," May 24-27, 2023, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA
  --See also: Draft Final Program for 2023 Conference
• African Studies Association of Africa: 5th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, "Repatriating Africa: Old Challenges and Critical Insights," October 25-28, 2023, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
  
• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific: Sydney Symposium, May 24-25, 2023--"Locating African Studies in the Global South."
  
• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: 2024 Annual Conference of ASAUK--60th Anniversary: "Generation and Regeneration", 29 to 31 August 2024, Oxford Brookes University, UK
  
• African Studies Association of the United States: 66th Annual ASA Meeting, November 30--December 2, 2023, San Francisco, California (Piscataway, New Jersey)
  --Final 2023 "Program Book"
• African Theatre Association: 2024 Annual Conference--"Theatres, cultures and democracies in Africa = Théâtres, cultures and démocraties en Afrique," 3 – 6 July 2024, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. (London, UK)
  
• Association of Black Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (Arlington, Virginia): Call for Papers--"Anthropology and the Black Experience" Dakar, Senegal, May 15-18, 2024
  --See also: ABA home page
• Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Disapora: 11th Biennial ASWAD Conference, August 2-6, 2023, University of Ghana-Legon, Accra, Ghana
  
• Association of Contemporary African Linguistics: 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 54), June 12-14, 2023, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  
• Arts Council of the African Studies Association (USA): 19th Triennial ACASA Symposium of African Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 7-11, 2024
  
• Canadian Association of African Studies: CAAS Conference 2024: "Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Africa: Past, Present, And Future," June 12-16, 2024, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  
• Canadian Association of African Studies: 2023 Annual CAAS Conference, May 29--June 1, 2023, Toronto, Canada--Program
  
• Columbia University: 20th Annual Columbia Africa Conference--"Strengthening Our Ties," November 3-4, 2023, Manhattanville Campus, New York.  Organized by Students of the Columbia Business School, School of Engineering, and School of International & Public Affairs.
  
• European Conference on African Studies: "African Futures" 31 May--3 June 2023, University of Cologne, France
  --Final program
  
• 21st Annual Ghana International Book Fair, August 8-11, 2024, Accra, Ghana
  The theme is “Books and Culture in the Era of Artificial Intelligence."
• Groupe d’Intérêt Scientifique Études africaines en France: 8e Rencontres des Études africaines en France--Appel à communication, 1er - 4 juillet 2024, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
  
• Harvard University: Africa Health Conference, February 18-19, 2023, Harvard T.C. Chang School of Public Health (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Colloque International « Hommage et reconnaissance au Professeur Ibrahima Thioub » 13, 14, et 15 juillet 2023, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
  -- Veuillez voir: Le Livret du colloque
  
• Igbo Studies Association: 21st Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association--"Igbo Values and Leadership in Perspective," 8-11 May 2024, Enugu, Nigeria (via Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois USA)
  
• International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies = Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente: Conference NeMEES 1 – "From Aksum to Lalibäla: The myth of the 'dark age' of Eritrean and Ethiopian history (7th-13th cent.). A multidisciplinary approach" – Naples, 1-3 March 2023
  
• Lagos Studies Association (Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA; University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria)
  "Established in 2017, the Lagos Studies Association is an international, interdisciplinary organization of academic and non-academic practitioners whose interest focus on Lagos and its peoples."
  --The 8th Annual International Conference of the Lagos Studies Association--"African Identities: Peoples, Cultures, and Institutions in Motion," In-person/Online, June 25-29, 2024, University of Lagos, Nigeria
• Liberian Studies Association: 54th Annual LSA Conference--"The Evolution of the Liberian State: Transitions and Transformation for the Future," April 18-20, 2024, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)
  
• MANSA: Mande Studies Association: 12th Internatonal Conference on Mande Studies--"Towards a Decolonization of Knowledges in West Africa: History, Actors, and Productions," June 25-30, 2024, Bamako, Mali (via Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida)
  
• Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society: 2023 SALALS Conference, July 3-6, 2023, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha Campus, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  
• Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa: SCOLMA 2023 Conference--Online, "Africa and the Environment: Archives and Data in the Climate Emergency," June 23, 2023, London (SCOLMA, London, UK)
  --Abstracts
• "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.
• West African Linguistic Society: WALC 2023: 33rd West African Languages Congress, October 23-26, 2023, Legon, Accra, Ghana (Benin City, Nigeria)
  
• 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)  Program and abstracts
  

• ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association 18th Triennial Conference Online, June 15-20, 2021
  --See: ACASA Home Page
• 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)
  
• African Film Festival New York 2022: "Visions of Freedom," May 12-June 2, 2022 (NYAFF, New York)
  "The festival will be presented with Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) from Thursday, May 12 — Tuesday, May 17. From FLC, the festival will continue at Maysles Cinema in Harlem from Thursday, May 19 — Sunday, May 22, and will conclude at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Rose Cinemas from Friday, May 27 — Thursday, June 2 in conjunction with the annual DanceAfrica celebration."
• African Heritage Studies Association (East Point, Georgia, USA)
  "[Founded in 1969] As an organization, AHSA is creating a unique African centered leadership development process for youth, community organizers and scholar-activists committed to the liberation of African people everywhere."
  --"Call for Papers": 52nd Annual Meeting & 2nd Virtual Conference, July 23--August 2, 2021 Cape Coast, Ghana & in Virtual Space
• 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
  --See also: 64th Annual Meeting--Online: "Re-centering Africa--Resistance and Renewal in a World Beyond COVID-19," November 16-20, 2021
• African Union/Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: 1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa, May 12-14, 2021, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ***Postponed!
  
• "Arabic Script Manuscripts in Africa," 12-16 September 2021, Remotely over Zoom, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (Co-sponsored by The Islamic Manuscripts Association, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation)
  This site --available in Arabic, English, and French-- includes the full programme -and- video recordings, with English interpretation, of all the presentations!
• 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)
  --See also: ASAI Home Page
• Cambridge University, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities: "18th Century Africa", Online Conference, June 10-11 and June 17-18, 2021. (Cambridge, UK)  Registration required
  
• Canadian African Studies Association: CAAS Conference 2022 -- "African Societies and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization: Practices, Challenges, Perspectives," May 16-19, 2022 -- Zoom Conference
  --See also: "Achieving Ubuntu: Reframing Equity, Partnership, and Change." June 6-9, 2021, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
• "Comparing the Copperbelt: Social History and Knowledge Production in Central Africa," June 17-19, 2021, Oxford University, UK
  
• DAK'ART 2022: La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, du 19  mai au 21 juin 2022, 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.
    --Veuillez voir surtout: Programme ; Les 59 artistes sélectionnés
  • --En plus: Colloque 2022, de 23 au 25 mai 2022, Musée des civilisations noires, Dakar, Sénégal
    
• European Conference on African Studies: 9th Biennial ECAS Conference "African Futures" May 31--June 3, 2021, University of Cologne, Germany (AEGIS--African Studies in Europe)
  
• Igbo Studies Association: "Call for Papers" 19th Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association, May 12-14, 2022, Dominican University, River Forest, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  --18th Annual Conference--"Igbo World, Igbo Condition." June 17-19, 2021, Enugu, Nigeria
  
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University: "International Conference on Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World since 1800," 28-29 May 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." July 8-10, 2021, Nairobi, Kenya
  
• Lagos Studies Association: The 6th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference--'Everyday Life in Africa: Past and Present,' June 21-25, 2022. --In person at the University of Lagos, Nigeria....and Virtual
  "Africa is one of the most misunderstood continents in the world for one principal reason—some narratives at different periods of its existence tend to overshadow others...The quest to understand Africa 'as it truly is' has led to the efflorescence of scholarship that takes grassroots economic, social, and political processes seriously. The so-called 'micro' or 'case study' approaches derive their strength from ideas that connect the small with the large or the experience of relatively unknown communities with broader international process of state building and globalization... We are conceptualizing everyday life as a historical, social, and virtual construction that animates through art, music, literature, politics, economy, religion, and even intellectualism."
  --Final program
• The Liberian Studies Association: 53rd annual conference of the Liberian Studies Association--"Liberia at 175: Reassessing the Past, Charting New Futures," April 21-23, 2022, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
  
  
• 7e Biennale de Lubumbashi, du 6 octobre au 6 novembre 2022---"Toxicity" (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  "Initiée depuis 2008 par l’Asbl Picha, La Biennale de Lubumbashi, Rencontres Picha sert de point de ralliement pour la jeune scène artistique, avec, à l’origine, un accent sur l’image photographique telle qu’elle s’impose dans la réalité de l’art contemporain. Elle fournit une plate-forme pour les artistes et acteurs culturels de la République Démocratique du Congo, dans le cadre d’échanges internationaux et divers réseaux."
• 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)
  
• PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festival (Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia)
  Celebrating 28 years!  General information, film & festival schedules, art show, and related links.....festivals in Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia. "Established in 1992, The Pan African Film & Art Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films." 
  --See especially: PAFF 2022--Film Guide, April 19-May 1, 2022, Los Angeles
• Rutgers University: "Translating Africa/Africa in Translation Intercollegiate Symposium, March 31--April 2, 2021.  Organized by the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (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
  
• 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
• Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa: International Seminar on The (In)stability in Guinea-Bissau, October 14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal -- "Call for Papers" (Co-sponsored by OBSERVARE–Observatory of Foreign Relations, Lisbon, Portugal and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
  
• University of Chicago, Center in Paris: "Displacement and Belonging: Lessons from the Indian Ocean and Beyond," May 5-6, 2022--Online Conference "In Honor of Pier Larson" (Paris, France)
  ***Programme ; Abstracts
  
• WARA Mid-West Conference---Virtual, July 26-27, 2022 Co-sponsored by The West African Research Association and the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  --Registration is required and free.
  
• 24th Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival -- "Sharing Our Heritage = Urithi Huu ni Wetu Sote" July 21-22, 2021 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from past festivals. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."

• 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...and other past meetings (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
• 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
• 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)
  
• 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: "Women and the Changing Face of Entrepreneurship in Africa," October 2020.
  

 

• "Africa Climate Week," March 18-22, 2019, Accra, Ghana
  • Regional Climate Weeks: Africa Climate Week, March 18-22, 2019---Program & Information
    --See especially: Event guide for "Africa Climate Week" 40 pages in PDF format
  • United Nations Development Programme (New York): "Ghana to kick start Africa Climate Week," March 14, 2019
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: "African Policymakers Highlight Opportunities of National Climate Plans, March 22, 2019 ; "Delegates Gather to Boost Ambitious Climate Action in Africa," March 18, 2019.
• Africa World Documentary Film Festival, March-August 2019, New Haven, Philadelphia, Huntsville, Barbados, Lagos, Accra, Stellenbosch, London, Mona, Bangkok (via San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA)
• African American Intellectual History Society: 4th Annual Conference of AAIHS, "Black Internationalism -- Then and Now," March 22-23, 2019, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Charlotte, North Carolina)
  
• ADIFF 2019 Highlights: African Diaspora International Film Festival -- June 2019, Chicago, Illinois
  
  • 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 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 Film Festival of New York, May 30-June 4, 2019 (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 especially: NYAFF 2019 Program Brochure
  --See also: Archives--Films from past festivals
• African Literature Association: 45th Annual Meeting -- "Institutions of African Literature: Future, Present, Past," May 15-18, 2019, Columbus, Ohio (via Geneva, New York)
  --See especially: Final program 48 pages in PDF format
• "The State of African Philanthropy: Setting the Agenda," May 16-17, 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  Co-sponsored by the University of the Witwatersrand School of Business--African Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment, the African Philanthropy Forum, TrustAfrica, and the Harvard University Center for African Studies (USA).  -- Conference programme
  
• African Studies Association of Africa : 3rd ASAA Biennial Conference--"African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities," October 24-26, 2019, Nairobi, Kenya (ASAA, Accra, Ghana)
• 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 States: 62nd Annual Meeting of the ASA--"Being, Belonging and Becoming in Africa," November 21-23, 2019, Boston, Massachusetts (Piscataway, New Jersey)
  --Preliminary program
• 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)
  --Draft Program  
• 16th Edition Sauti za Busara Zanzibar, 7-10 February 2019 (Busara Promotions, Zanzibar,Tanzania)
  "...bringing together diverse artists and audiences and building appreciation for East African music...The 16th edition will take place in Stone Town, Zanzibar from 7th -- 10th February 2019...According to festival director Yusuf Mahmoud the theme for this year’s edition targets to fight corruption because they believe artists can use their voices to fight this vice as they celebrate the wealth and diversity of African music."
• The Centre for the Study of African Economies: CSAE Conference 2019--Economic Development in Africa, March 17-19, 2019, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
  The deadline for proposals is October 26, 2018.
• Columbia University, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Research in African American Studies:
  • 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."
  • "The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society," October 18, 2019, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.
    --See especially: "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics," November 2018.
    By Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy. 252 pages in PDF format
    
  • "1619 and its Legacies: Symposium, Roundtable Discussion, & Poetic Reading," September 26-27, 2019, at Columbia University Faculty House.
  • 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)
  • "Free to Be Anywhere in the Universe: An International Conference on New Directions in the Study of the African Diaspora," April 25-27, 2019. 25th Anniversary Celebration.
    
• Columbia University: 16th Annual African Economic Forum--"Technology vs. Industrialization: The Way Forward," April 12-13, 2019 (New York)
  --See especially: Schedule
• ECAS 2019: 8th European Conference on African Studies--"Africa: Connections and Disruptions," June 12-14, 2019, University of Edinburgh, UK
  
• FESPACO 2019: 26th Edition of the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, February 24-March 1, 2019 (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  
  The official site in French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." The site includes information about award-winning films from previous festival years.
  --"The Mercy of the Jungle de Joel Karekezi du Rwanda remporte l'Or," le 2 mars 2019
• 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."
• 21st Annual Harlem Book Fair, July 2019, New York (via QBR.Com, New York)
  "The nation's largest African American literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment, and community cooperation." The 21st annual book fair will be held in the Harlem section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. The program will include outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events.  --See also: 2017 Phyllis Wheatley Book Awards
  
• Harvard University--Major Africa-Related Events in 2019
  
  • "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.
  • Harvard University Business School: 21st Annual Africa Business Conference--"Africa Forward: Forging New Alliances for the Future," February 15-16, 2019
  • Harvard University Divinity School, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program: "Africa, Globalization, and the Muslim Worlds," September 19-21, 2019, Harvard Divinity School
    In association with The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Northwestern University.
• 8th Annual International  Igbo Conference--"The Igbo Arts and its Intersections: Politics, Spirituality, and Justice," April 12-13, 2019, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
  --See especially: Conference Schedule
• Lagos Studies Association: 4th Annual LSA Conference--"Lagos in the World and the World in Lagos," June 27-29, 2019, Lagos, Nigeria (via Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA; Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
• International Conference on "The Long History of Pan-African Intellectual Activism: More Than a Centenary, 1919-2019," May 16-17, 2019, University of Vienna, Austria (Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, Universität Wien, Austria)
  --See especially: Final Schedule
• 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 Association of African Studies--2019 Annual NYASA Conference: "The 50 Year Ripple: Black Studies--Sankofa, Past, Present, and Future." April 12-13, 2019. Held at York College, The City University of New York, Jamaica, New York.
• Nigeria International Book Fair, 18th Edition, May 6-11, 2019, UNILAG, Akoka, Lagos State, Nigeria (Nigeria Book Fair Trust, Ikeja, Nigeria)
• 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.
• SCOLMA-UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa: "Decolonising African Studies: Questions and Dilemmas for Libraries, Archives, and Collections," June 10, 2019, University of Edinburgh, UK   (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa, via University of Oxford, UK)
  
• Southern African Historical Society : 27th Biennial Conference--"Trails, Traditions, and Trajectories: Rethinking Perspectives on Southern African Histories," June 24-26, 2019, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
  --See especially: Draft Program
• Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies / Southeast Africanist Network: "African Technologies and Creativity: Innovation in Times of Uncertainty," February 8-9, 2019, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  --See especially: Programme
• 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
• University of Texas at Austin: 19th Annual Africa Conference--"Identities", March 29-31, 2019
  --See especially: Conference Schedule

• "Africa in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production," May 25-28, 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa Co-sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and the African Studies Association of the United States.
  
• African Association for the Study of Religions: 8th AASR Conference in Africa--"Revisiting Religion, Politics, and the State in Africa and the African Diaspora," August 1-4, 2018, The University of Zambia & Justo Mwale University, Lusaka, Zambia (via University of Leeds, UK)
• ADIFF 2018: African Diaspora International Film Festival, November 23--December 9, 2018, New York
  
  • Events held throughout the year in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. In New York, the screenings and other events are held in various venues, including Columbia University Teachers College & Symphony Space Theater (in Manhattan)
• African Film Festival of New York, May 16-June 10, 2018 (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 Knowledges, Alternative Futures" -- Toyin Falola @65 Conference, January 29-31, 2018, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  The full papers were due by January 15, 2018.
• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: Annual Conference of ASAUK, September 11-13, 2018, University of Birmingham, UK
  --ASAUK 2018 Preliminary program
• African Studies Association of the United States : 61st Annual Meeting of the ASA--"Energies, Power, Creativity and Afro-Futures," November 29--December 1, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia (via Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
  ---Preliminary Program
  -- 2018 Presidential Address -- "#HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968," by Prof. Jean Allman, November 30, 2018
  --"Ruptures: African Studies and the Racial Politics of Knowledge Production, 1968-1998." ASA Board-Sponsored Panel, December 1, 2018.
  -- "Futures: African Studies and the Racial Politics of Knowledge Production, 1998-2028." ASA Board-Sponsored Panel, December 1, 2018.
• Afrotopia: 11e édition des Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, du 2 décembre 2017 au 31 janvier 2018
  Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, co-organisée par le Ministère de la Culture du Mali et l’Institut français.
• Aké Arts & Book Festival, October 25-28, 2018, Lagos, Nigeria (Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria)
  "The Book Buzz Foundation is a non-governmental organisation...we organise a yearly (six-day) festival of arts and books..."
  --See especially: 2018 Programme
• "Revisiting The 1958 All African Peoples' Conference -- The Unfinished Business  of Liberation and Transformation," December 5-8, 2018, University of Ghana, Legon--Conference Programme.   Institute of African Studies.
  --See also: Abstracts -and- Conference Report
  
• American Museum of Natural History: 2018 Margaret Mead Film Festival, October 18-21, 2018, New York
  --Includes: "Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram" (2018) ; "Ethiopiques--Revolt of the Soul" (2017)
  
  "... will feature intimate conversations with filmmakers and film subjects, as well as the presentation of the annual Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award."
  --See also, 2017 Festival highlights: Gun Runners ; House in the Fields ; Paa Joe and the Lion
  --See also, 2016 Festival highlights: Gangbé! ; J.C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer ; Kolwezi on Air ; A Revolution in Four Seasons ; and, Thiaroye by the Sea
• Association of African Studies in Germany=Die Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (Hamburg, Germany)
  Biennial Conference "African Connections." 27-30 June 2018, Universität Leipzig 
• ASALH--Association for the Study of African-American Life and History: 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference, October 3-7, 2018, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
• Associazione Per Gli Studi Africani in Italia: ASAI V--"Plural Africa. Politics, Knowledge and Social Dynamics in Time and Space," 5-7 September 2018, University of Bologna, Italy
  --Call for Papers: The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2018.
  --See also: ASAI Home Page
• XXXIII Black International Cinema, Berlin, May 11-13, 2018 and "Footprints in the Sand?" (Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, The Collegium Television Program and Cultural Zephyr, Berlin, Germany and USA)
  The website offers a call for entries, plus details on the films and videos from past years, including: XXXII BIC, May 12-14, 2017
  
• "Black Portraiture[s] IV: The Color of Silence," March 22-24, 2018, Cambridge, Massachusetts (via New York University, New York; Hotchkiss Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University)
  "...the eighth conference in a series of conversations about imaging the black body. We invite artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the visual expressions of national imaginaries and political ideologies that negate racial differences and render black subjects invisible."  This site also includes highlights from "Black Portraiture[s] III" held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Columbia University, Maison Française: "Blackness in French and Francophone Film," November 7-16, 2018
  
• Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery: "Relational Undercurrents : Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago," June 1--September 23, 2018 (New York)
  "...the first major survey of twenty-first century art of the Caribbean. It employs the archipelago as an analytical framework, focusing on locating thematic continuities in the art of the Caribbean islands, placing Hispanophone artists in visual conversation with those from Anglophone, Francophone, Dutch, and Danish backgrounds."
• Dakar Institute of African Studies: 4th International Symposium on Black Studies -- "Bridging the Gap: Black Studies Across Social, Geographical, Epistemic and Linguistic Lines, July 6-7, 2018, Dakar, Senegal (via H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  Co-sponsored by Université Cheikh Anta Diop, West African Research Center, and the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
  
  
• DAK'ART 2018: La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, du 3 mai au 2 juin 2018, Dakar, Sénégal
  • 13ème 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.
    --Veuillez voir surtout: "Rencontres et échanges: "Arts Contemporains Africains et Transformations des Cadres Intellectuels et Normatifs," du vendredi 04 au lundi 07 mai 2018.  Amphithéâtre UCAD 2, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar -et- Musée Théodore Monod d’art Africain.
    
    --Veuillez voir aussi:
  • DAK'ART 2016: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain -- "L'Heure Rouge," du 3 mai au 2 juin 2016, Dakar, Sénégal
    -- Veuillez voir aussi: "Les Fleuves en Couleurs"--Festival d'art contemporain Biennale OFF, Saint-Louis, Sénégal--Catalogue 2016
  
  
• 39th Durban International Film Festival, July 19-29, 2018 (Durban, South Africa)
  --See 2018 DIFF Winners
• "Enslavement, Conflict, and Forced Marriage in Africa: Research Methods, Research Ethics, and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production," June 25-28, 2018, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• 5e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France--"Afriques enchantées, Afriques en chantiers", du 9 au 12 juillet 2018, Marseilles, France (GIS Afrique, Ivry-sur-Seine, France)
  
  
• 2018 Festival International du Film Black de Montréal, Canada, du 26 au 31 septembre 2018
  "...a été créé en 2005 par la Fondation Fabienne Colas, organisme artistique professionnel, sans but lucratif, voué à l’éducation dans les arts et au soutien à la création, la promotion, la diffusion du Cinéma, de l’Art et de la Culture au Canada et à l’étranger."
• Festival International du Film Panafricain, du 18 au 22 avril 2018, Cannes, France
  Veuillez voir aussi, les informations sur les festivals de 2017, 2016, et les éditions plus anciennes.
  
• 16th Annual  Ghana International Book Fair, August 30--September 2, 2018, Accra, Ghana
  The theme is “Revitalising the Book Chain for National and International Cooperation”
• Harvard University: International Conference on "West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century," September 13-15, 2018, Harvard Divinity School. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  -- Preliminary program
• International Congress of Linguists 20th Conference, July 2-6, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa
  "The Dynamics of Language"
  --See also: WOCAL 9 below
• 2018 Jozi Book Fair--"Literature and Working People", August 30-September 2, 2018, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa Co-sponsored by the National Library of South Africa and Bohlale ba Basebetsi, Khanya College--Education for Liberation.
  
• Kampala Art Biennale, August 24--September 24, 2018--"The Studio" (Kampala Arts Trust, Kampala, Uganda)
  "For KAB18, Simon Njami has decided to invite 7 internationally renown artists to open their studios in Kampala to young Ugandan, East African, African and international artists."  The site features information about the forthcoming events, the internatonal African curatorial team, and the organization of the 2016 biennale, as well as highlights from the 2014 biennale, including short video interviews.
• Lagos Studies Association: 3rd Annual Lagos Conference -- "Futurity in Lagos Scholarship, the Arts, Advocacy, and Social Enterprise," University of Lagos, Nigeria, June 19-23, 2018 (Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA; University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria)
  --See: Final program.
• Liberian Studies Association: 50th Anniversary Conference of the LSA, April 19-21, 2018, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
  
  
• 2018 Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes African Studies Conference -- "Creativity, Innovation, and Resilience: Rethinking Challenges and Opportunities in Africa," March 24, 2018, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2018.
• NYASA--New York Africana Studies Association: 43rd Annual Conference--"Global Africa: Human Migration, The African Diaspora, and the Future," April 13-14, 2018, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
  -- See also: Final conference program ; NYASA home page
  
• Oromo Studies Association: 2018 Annual Conference -- "Oromo Political Organizations – Challenges and Prospects," August 4-5, 2018, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
  --See also: OSA Home Page
• PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festivals (Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia)
  Celebrating 26 years!  General information, film & festival schedules, art show, and related links.....festivals in Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia. "Established in 1992, The Pan African Film & Art Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films." 
  --See especially: Films at 2018 PAFF (February 8-19, 2018)
• Sports Africa 2018: 12th Sports Africa Conference--"Pan-African Sports: Beyond Physical Education," March 26-28, 2018, University of Zambia, Lusaka
  --The deadline for proposals is December 20, 2017.
• University of California, Davis: "Re-Imagining Iranian African Slavery: Photography as Material Culture," May 10-June 27, 2018. Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center.
  
• University of Texas at Austin: 18th Annual African Conference -- "Leadership and Institutions in Africa," March 30-April 1, 2018
  --See: Conference schedule
• WOCAL 9: World Congress of African Linguistics: "African Languages in a Global World"--Rabat, Morocco, August 22-26, 2018 (viaThe Netherlands Institute in Morocco)
• Yale University: "The Next Frontier of Peacekeeping," April 27-28, 2018, New Haven, Connecticut
  Co-sponsored by The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Department of Political Science.
• 21st Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival -- "Speak Up and Be Heard = Sema na Usikike" July 7-15, 2018 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from the 2017 festival and earlier. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."

 

• The Africa Center--Blog (December 2017) (New York)
  • "...a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa....will host visual, performing, and digital arts presentations; develop and disseminate innovative educational tools; convene focused, thoughtful peer-to-peer exchanges; and sponsor results-oriented policy research."
    --About the Center
    --News
  • Fall 2017 African Arts in New York City--Calendar
    
  • Contemporary African Art in New York City, Winter 2017
  • "Contemporary African Art in NYC, Fall 2016 Round-Up"
  • Digital Library of Publications from The Center for African Art/Museum for African Art, New York
• ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association of the United States -- 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art, August 8-13, 2017, University of Ghana, Legon--"Final Program"
• African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF, 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)
  • ADIFF--Washington, DC, August 18-20, 2017
    
  • FIFDA---Paris, France, du 8 au 10 septembre 2017
    
  • ADIFF--New York, July 28-30, 2017--"Black Europe"
    
  • ADIFF-Chicago, June 9-15, 2017
    
  • ADIFF 2017--Music and Society Film Series, New York, April 28-30, 2017
    
  • ADIFF 2017--Black History Month, February 24-26, 2017
• African Film Festival of New York, May 3-29, 2017 (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.
• African Literature Association: ALA 2017 Annual Conference -- "Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies," June 14-17, 2017, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  --See especially: Final Program
• SOAS African Literatures Conference: 55 Years After the First Makerere African Writers Conference, October 28, 2017, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies/Centre of African Studies (London, UK)
  
• ADEA 2017 Triennale Conference, March 14-17, 2017, Dakar, Senegal: "Revitalizing Education Towards the 2030 Global Agenda and Africa’s Agenda 2063." (Association for the Development of Education in Africa, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  --See also: ADEA Home Page
• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific: 40th AFSAAP Annual Conference, 23-24 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia (via Adelaide, Australia)
  --Abstracts 2017 -and- Final Program + Update
  
• African Studies Association of the United States (via Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
  • 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association: "Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa," November 16-18, 2017, Chicago, Illinois
    --See: Final program
• AEGIS--African Studies in Europe (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
  • ECAS 2017: 7th European Conference on African Studies -- "Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New Encounters of the Rural and the Urban," 22-27 June 2017, Basel, Switzerland
    --See especially: Final Programme booklet
    
• 2nd International Conference on African Urban Planning, September 7-8, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal (African Urban Planning Research Network, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  --See also: Abstracts & programme from International Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial African Urban Planning, September 5-6, 2013, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• AfroEuropeans 2017: "Black Cultures and Identities in Europe," July 6-8, 2017, University of Tampere, Finland
  --See especially: Final Programme
  
• Association of Contemporary African Linguistics: ACAL 48: 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, March 30-April 2, 2017, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
  --Final Program
• Canadian Association of African Studies--Annual Conference: "From Far and Wide: The Next 150," May 31-June 2, 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  --See especially: Final Programme
• Centre for the Study of African Economies: CSAE Conference 2017--"Economic Development in Africa," March 19-21, 2017, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK
  The deadline for proposals is October 28, 2016!
• Columbia University, Institute of African Studies--Major Events (New York)
  • "Nollywood Panel", with Emily Witt, Daniel Oriahi, and Brian Larkin, November 8, 2017
    "How did Nigeria create the second largest movie industry in the world?"
  • Taxi Driver: A Nollywood Film Screening with Director Daniel Oriahi, November 9, 2017
• Columbia University: 1st Conference of the Northeast Consortium for Programs in African Languages, Columbia University, March 24-25, 2017 (New York)
  Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, the Institute of African Studies, Office of the University Provost, The Language Resource Center, and others.
• 9th Annual "Congo in Harlem" Film Festival, October 19-22, 2017, Maysles Cinema, New York
  "Launched in 2009...the series showcases a wide range of films by Congolese and international directors, representing the most important issues facing the Democratic Republic of Congo today."
• EBAD--École de Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes, Université Cheikh Anta Diop:
  Cinquantenaire EBAD--Colloque international 2017: Les sciences de l’information documentaire au service de la recherche, de la formation, de l’intégration et du développement durable." du 14 au 16 novembre 2017 (Dakar, Sénégal)
• 23rd Fès Festival of World Sacred Music: May 12-20, 2017 (Fès, Morocco)
  Features information on the artists who performed at the Festival.
  Also in French.
• 25th Edition--FESPACO 2017: Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  The 25th edition of FESPACO will take place from February 25-March 4, 2017.
  The official site in French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." The site includes information about award-winning films from 2009 and previous festival years.
• 4ème Forum international de Dakar sur la Paix et la Sécurité en Afrique, du 13 au 14 novembre 2017
  Organisé par Le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et des Sénégalais de l’extérieur et le Centre des Hautes Etudes de Défense et de Sécurité.
  Le premier objectif: "Instaurer un rendez-vous international annuel qui rassemble tous les acteurs et experts africains et internationaux concernés par les questions de paix et sécurité en Afrique."
• The French Colonial Historical Society = Société d'histoire coloniale française (Ottawa, Canada)
  Call for Papers -- 43e Congrès Annuel, du 15 au 17 juin 2017 à Aix-en-Provence, France
  --Veuillez voir aussi: Programs: 2016 Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, 18-21 May 2016, Ottawa, Canada
• Harvard University -- 2017 Conferences (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • 8th Annual African Development Conference -- "Africa: Imagining New Frontiers for Collaboration," March 31-April 1, 2017 (Harvard Kennedy School of Governance and Harvard Law School)
  • "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa," 16-18 February 2017--Keynote and Panels 2-4 Videos (Center for African Studies and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    --See also: Conference Program
• MANSA--Mande Studies Association: 10th International Conference on Mande Studies, August 2-6, 2017, Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire
• "Mauritius after 50 years of independence: charting the way forward," 28-30 June 2017, University of Mauritius -- "Call for Papers". In collaboration with the Mauritius Research Council.
  --The deadline for proposals is January 10, 2017.
• New York University: "Africa and the Soviet Union: Technology, Ideology, and Culture," October 13, 2017, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
• Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria: "The Yoruba Nation and Politics Since the Nineteenth Century"--Conference in Honour of Professor J.A. Atanda, October 9-11, 2017
  Co-sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin (USA)
• PAFF: Pan African Film & Arts Festivals, 2017 (Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia)
  Celebrating 25 years!  General information, film & festival schedules, art show, and related links.....festivals in Los Angeles and in Atlanta, Georgia. "Established in 1992, The Pan African Film & Art Festival is the largest festival in the United States dedicated to the exhibition of Black films." 
  --See especially: Films at 2017 PAFF (February 9-20, 2017, Los Angeles)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, Inaugural Conference--"Reckoning With Slavery," November 16-18, 2017
  The New York Public Library (New York)
• SCOLMA--Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa: Annual Conference 2017: "Document to Digital: How Does Digitisation Aid African Research," September 11, 2017, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
• 2017 Storymoja Festival, September 27-October 1, 2017, Nairobi, Kenya
  "The Storymoja Festival started out as a small gathering of 300 people in 2007, and has grown to a vibrant gathering of the greatest minds in Kenya and beyond, celebrating ideas and culture...Books are brought to life through poetry, storytelling, lively discussions with local and international artists, music, workshops, film and much more."
• Tennessee State University: Annual African Conference -- "Transformations in Africana Studies: Epistemology, Theory Building, and Methodology," April 6-7, 2017, Nashville, Tennesee "Call for Papers"
  (via H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  The deadline for proposals is December 31, 2016!
• University of Texas at Austin: 17th Annual Africa Conference -- "Rupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the African Diaspora," March 31--April 2, 2017
  --See especially: Call for Papers. The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2016!
• 20th Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival -- Festival of the Dhow Countries: "Finding Joy = Kusikia Furaha" 8-16 July 2017 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from the 2016 festival and earlier. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."
• Zikr: Locating Sufi Performance, Critical Perspectives on Music, Ritual, and Remembrance = Situer la performance soufie, perspectives critiques sur la musique, les traditions, et la mémoire, du 5 au 7 juin 2017, Dakar, Senegal. Co-sponsored by Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA and the West African Research Center, Dakar, Senegal
  --Program and abstracts

 

 

• The Africa Desk (2016): a portal for Africanists in the UK and Africa (London, UK)
  News about events, publications, and research associations on Africa in the UK. "...a collaboration between the British Academy and the African Studies Association of the UK, with support from The Association of Commonwealth Universities and SCOLMA, the UK Africanists librarians group."
• AEGIS--Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies: Collaborative Research Group African History -- 3rd Biennial Conference on African History, 20-22 March 2016, Leipzig, Germany
• African Association for the Study of Religions: 7th Biennial Conference "Religion, Sexuality, and Identity in Africa & the African Diaspora, July 26-29, 2016, Accra, Ghana
  The deadline for proposals is December 31, 2015.
• ADIFF 2016--24th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival, November 25--December 11, 2016, 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 Film Festival of New York, 2016 Summer "Cinema Under the Stars" (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.
  --May 2016 AFF highlights
  --The 2014 Annual NYAFF took place in May 2014 in NYC
• "African Intellectual History Workshop", March 31-April 2, 2016, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  ***Program and the list of papers included.
  
• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific: 39th AFSAAP Annual Conference, 5-7 December 2016, Perth, Australia (via Adelaide, Australia)
• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: ASAUK Biennial Conference 2016, September 7-9, University of Cambridge, UK -- Call for Papers
  The deadline for proposals is April 2, 2016.
• African Studies Association of the United States: 59th Annual Meeting, "Imagining Africa at the Center: Bridging Scholarship, Policy, and Representation in African Studies," December 1-3, 2016, Washington, DC
  --See especially: Preliminary program
  
• African Studies Association of the United States: "Africa and the World: Innovation, Transformation and Sustainable Futures in Africa," June 1-4, 2016, Dakar, Senegal
  In partnership with the American Anthropological Association, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), and the West African Research Center (WARC)
  --See especially: Full preliminary conference programme
• "L'Algérie française en perspective: une forme de colonisation de peuplement spécifique?" du 9 au 10 juin 2016, Institut d'études avancées de Paris, France
  Atelier de recherche et d'études doctorales.
• American Museum of Natural History: 2016 Margaret Mead Film Festival, October 13-16, 2016, New York
  "... will feature intimate conversations with filmmakers and film subjects, as well as the presentation of the annual Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award."
  --See especially: Gangbé! ; J.C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer ; Kolwezi on Air ; A Revolution in Four Seasons ; and, Thiaroye by the Sea
• Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia: IV ASAI Conference "Ebullient Africa: Conflict, Modernity, Religion," 22-24 September 2016, University of Catania, Italy
  The deadline for proposals is May 22, 2016!!
• XXXI Black International Cinema, Berlin, May 13-15, 2016 and "Footprints in the Sand?" Photographic Exhibition (Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, The Collegium Television Program and Cultural Zephyr, Berlin, Germany and USA)
  • BIC Awards History, 1991-2015
• Black Portraiture(s) III: Reinventions--Strains of Histories and Cultures, November 17-19, 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa Co-sponsored by New York University--Institute of African American Affairs, Harvard University-Hutchins Center for African & African Amerian Research, and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
  --See especially: Program schedule
  
• Canadian Association of African Studies--Annual Conference: "Canada’s Intellectual Engagement With Africa: Reflections and Projections After 50 Years, " June 1-3, 2016, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Columbia University -- Events on Africa, Spring-Fall 2016
  • Columbia University, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery: "The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa," September 7-December 10, 2016
    "...This exhibition reconsiders African contemporary photographic portraiture by presenting the work of four artists whose concerns range beyond depicting social identity: Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko, and George Osodi. Works by these four artists lend greater thematic and formal versatility to the practice of portraiture."
  • "New Directions in Nollywood and Nigerian Cinema," April 22, 2016, Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall. (New York) Organized by the Institute of African Studies
    --Preceded by a film screening of "76" by Izu Ojukwu on April 21, 2016
  • Barnard College, Departments of Africana Studies and History: "Lagos: From the Pepper Farm to the Mega City (and Beyond)." May 6-7, 2016: "Call For Papers" (New York; via H-Africa, H-Net, East Lansing, Michigan)
    The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2015.
  • Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation: "Other Desires: The African City," April 8, 2016 Co-sponsored with The Institute of African Studies.
    --See also: Detailed program
  • African Economic Forum 2016--"A Continent Connecting Solutions From Within," April 2, 2016, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University Law School (New York)
  • "Biennale Cultures in Africa" March 4, 2016, 2:00-6:15 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall  Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Labex CAP, Alliance Program, and others.
    
• DAK'ART 2016: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, du 3 mai au 2 juin 2016, Dakar, Sénégal
  12ème Biennale! 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. Le nouveau site offre les plus brèves informations sur les autres éditions de la biennale dans le passé.
  -- Veuillez voir aussi: Dak'Art 2012: Prospects and Challenges (June 2012) by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi ; plus, Photos of the exhibitions and events Nafas: art magazine. (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Berlin, Germany; in cooperation with Universes in Universe)
• 37th Durban International Film Festival, June 16-26, 2016 (Durban, South Africa)
• Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa: 11th Annual EISA Symposium 2016
  "Current Democratic Realities in Africa: Where Are We Headed Beyond the Vote?" October 20-21, 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
  --See especially: Concept Note
• 4e Rencontres des Études africaines en France --"Afriques Cosmopolitiques" -- du 5 au 7 juillet 2016, Paris, France (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris)
  Veuillez voir surtout: Appel à contributions
  "...la liste des ateliers retenus sera accessible du 22 octobre au 18 décembre 2015 pour permettre aux chercheurs de proposer leurs contributions individuelles."
• Forum international de Dakar sur la Paix et la Sécurité en Afrique, du 5 au 6 décembre 2016
  Organisé par le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et des Sénégalais de l’extérieur et le Centre des Hautes Etudes de Défense et de Sécurité de la République du Sénégal.
  
  Le site est en français ou en anglais. Le premier objectif: "Instaurer un rendez-vous international annuel qui rassemble tous les acteurs et experts africains et internationaux concernés par les questions de paix et sécurité en Afrique."
  --Veuillez voir surtout: Contributions
• 14th Annual Ghana International Book Fair, August 18-20, 2016, Accra, Ghana
  The theme is “Growing the Knowledge based Economy through Reading.”
• 18th Annual Harlem Book Fair, July 15-16, 2016, New York (via QBR.Com, New York)
  "The nation's largest African American literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment, and community cooperation." The 18th annual book fair held in the Harlem section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. The program will include outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events.
• Igbo Studies Association: 14th Annual International Conference, May 12-14, 2016, Chicago, Illinois
  The deadline for proposals was October 31, 2015.
• Jomba 2016: 18th Annual Contemporary Dance Experience, August 24--September 3, 2016, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
• Kampala Art Biennale, September 3--October 2, 2016--"Seven Hills" (Kampala Arts Trust, Kampala, Uganda)
  The site features information about the forthcoming events, the internatonal African curatorial team, and the organization of the 2016 biennale, as well as highlights from the 2014 biennale, including short video interviews.
• 11th Madagascar Workshop 2016, 27-30 mai 2016, Avignon, France
  Includes final program, bilingual--French and English
• 19th Nairobi International Book Fair, 21-25 September 2016, Nairobi, Kenya  (via Kenya Publishers' Association)
• NYASA--New York African Studies Association: 41st Annual NYASA Conference, April 1-2, 2016, City College--City University of New York and Columbia University: Programme
  --See also: NYASA Home Page
• Oxford University: 2016 Oxford Africa Conference, 20-21 May 2016 --- "Challenging Narratives: Governance, Youth Leadership, and Business" (UK)
• "The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa," 23-25 November 2016, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  A conference co-hosted by the Wits History Workshop, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History Online (SAHO).
  --See: Draft Programme -and- Abstracts and biographies
• "Print Culture and Publishing in Africa," September 13, 2016, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
  --Print Culture and Publishing in South Africa: a research partnership between Oxford Brookes University and the University of Pretoria.
• SCOLMA Annual Conference 2016--"African Medicine Matters," September 6, 2016, Cambridge, UK UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
• SOAS--School of Oriental and African Studies: Centre of African Studies -- Events (University of London, London, UK)
  --Baraza Swahili Conference, October 29, 2016
  NOTE: The deadline for proposals was September 1, 2016!
• Colloque international "Socialismes Africaines", du 4 au 7 avril 2016, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, (Site Pouchet CNRS, Canal U, Paris, France)
  Ce sont les actes du colloque au format vidéo: "...organisé par le CRIMIC, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, la FMSH, l'EHESS, l'IMAF, l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, le CHS, l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, la Fondation Jean Jaurès, la Fondation Gabriel Peri, le CESSMA et LAM en partenariat avec RFI.
• University of Minnesota: International African Studies Conference--"Fault Lines: Rethinking Temporal and Disciplinary Traditions in African Studies," April 21-22, 2016, (Twin Cities, Minnesota)
  
• University of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute:
  6th International Conference on Africa, Unity for Renaissance, May 22-16, 2016: "The Knowledge, Spiritual and Struggle Heritage for Re-imagining Innovative Africa" (Pretoria, South Africa)
• 19th Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival -- Festival of the Dhow Countries: "This Journey of Ours" 9-17 July 2016 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from the 2015 festival and earlier. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."
• 1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present (1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar, Senegal
  -- "Call for Papers" (via Africa in Words, UK)
  NOTE: The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2016.

 

• "Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge," September 24-26, 2015, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
  Organized by the Association of Asian Studies in Africa (A-Asia) in cooperation with the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS).
  --See: Conference Program
• African Diaspora International Film Festival, New York, November 27-December 13, 2015 (ADIFF, New York)
  • Fall/Winter ADIFF 2014 Highlights
• "African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability," 15-16 May 2015, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK  Call for Papers
  
• African Literature Association 41st Annual Conference--"African Futures and Beyond: Visions in Transition," June 3-6, 2015, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Abstracts and proposals due November 30, 2014.
• African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific:
  "21st Century Tensions and Transformation in Africa." -- 38th Annual AFSAAP Conference, October 28-30, 2015, Melbourne, Australia
• African Studies Association of the United States: 58th Annual Meeting, "The State and the Study of Africa," November 19-22, 2015, San Diego, California
  --See especially: Preliminary program for 2015 Annual Meeting.
• Boston University, African Studies Center (Boston, Massachusetts): 23rd Annual Graduate Studies Conference in African Studies, March 27-28, 2015
  The deadline for paper proposals is February 1, 2015.
• Canadian Association of African Studies: 2015 Annual Conference of CAAS, June 3-5, 2015, Ottawa, Canada
  --See also: CAAS 2015 Conference Programme -and- CAAS Home Page
• CRASSH--Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities: "Pursuing Justice in Africa," March 27-28, 2015, Cambridge, UK (University of Cambridge, UK)
  The deadline for abstracts is November 28, 2014.
• Columbia University -- Institute of African Studies (New York)
  • Institute of African Studies, Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life, and Majalis: "Islam and Peace Conference: Perspectives from African Muslim Non-Violence Traditions, 11-13 September 2015, New York
  • George C. Bond Memorial Conference, April 10, 2015
    "The conference aims to honor the scholarly contribution of Professor Bond through three panels on topics relevant to his life's work: (1) Religion, Politics and Society in Africa; (2) Black Intellectuals and the Quest for Emancipation; (3) The Education of Africans and Africanists at Columbia University."
    --Panelists include: Diane Ciekawy, Elias Kifon Bongmba, Marcia Wright, Nigel Gibson, Michael Ralph, Hollis Lynch, Mamadou Diouf, Ron Kassimir, and others.
• 7th Annual "Congo in Harlem" Series, October 18-25, 2015, Maysles Cinema, Harlem, New York
  "...an annual series of films, panel discussions, performances, and special events focused on the history, politics, and culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
• The Dakar Institute of African Studies: Annual International Symposium -- "Valorizing African Cultural Heritage and Thought in the 21st Century, " July 3-4, 2015, Dakar, Senegal
    Co-sponsored by the DIAS, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, and the West African Research Center.
  The deadline for abstracts is April 15, 2015.
• 36th Durban International Film Festival, July 16-26, 2015 (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
  
• ECAS-6 : Sixth European Conference on African Studies--"Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt," 8-10 July 2015, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France.
• Florida International University: "Roots/Heritage Tourism in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies for a Comparative Approach," February 12-14, 2015, Miami, Florida (African & African Diaspora Studies Program, School of International & Public Affairs)
• Harlem Book Fair 2015, July 17-18, 2015, New York (via QBR.Com, New York)
  "The nation's largest African Americanliterary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment, and community cooperation." The 17th annual book fair held in the Harlem section of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. The program will include outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events.
• Harvard University, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Research Center:
  "New Research on the Atlantic Slave Trade," October 2-3, 2015 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University: "Currencies of Commerce in Greater Indian Ocean World," 22-24 April 2015 (Montréal, Canada)
    The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2014!
• 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, August 24-26, 2015, Warsaw, Poland Co-sponsored with the University of Warsaw.
• Jomba 2015: 17th Contemporary Dance Experience, August 26--September 6, 2015, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
  The site provides information on this annual festival and links to highlights from the previous programmes since 2013.
• 4e Biennale de Lubumbashi, du 9 octobre au 8 novembre 2015---"Rencontres Picha 2015" (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  "Initiée depuis 2008 par l’Asbl Picha, La Biennale de Lubumbashi, Rencontres Picha sert de point de ralliement pour la jeune scène artistique, avec, à l’origine, un accent sur l’image photographique telle qu’elle s’impose dans la réalité de l’art contemporain. Elle fournit une plate-forme pour les artistes et acteurs culturels de la République Démocratique du Congo, dans le cadre d’échanges internationaux et divers réseaux."
• 14th Nigeria International Book Fair, May 11-16, 2015, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State, Nigeria
• 11th Annual PEN World Voices Festival 2015--"On Africa", May 4-10, 2015, New York (PEN American Center, New York, USA)
  --See especially: Schedule of Events at the Cooper Union and the Sheen Center Loretto Auditorium in Manhattan.
• Princeton University, McCarter Theatre: "Sizwe Banzi is Dead," January 16-February 15, 2015 (Princeton, New Jersey)
  The official "commercial" site for the performances of this now famous play set in "apartheid" era South Africa by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. Directed by John Kani. Plus, there are special events at the theatre and in the Princeton area during the show's run.
• Somali Studies International Association: 2015 SSIA Congress: "Revisiting Somali Identities--Addressing Gender, Generation, and Belonging," 19-23 August 2015, Helsiniki, Finland
• 2015 Storymoja Festival, September 16-20, 2015, Nairobi, Kenya
  "The Storymoja Festival started out as a small gathering of 300 people in 2007, and has grown to a vibrant gathering of the greatest minds in Kenya and beyond, celebrating ideas and culture...Books are brought to life through poetry, storytelling, lively discussions with local and international artists, music, workshops, film and much more."
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009-2015
  • UNFCCC 2015: Paris, France, November 30-December 11, 2015
    --See also: United Nations Conference on Climate Change, November 30-December 11, 2015, Paris, France Official site of the COP21/CMP11
    • 2012-2015 Non-Annex I Country Reports: National Communications -and- Biennial Updates
    • 2015 Annex I National Reports
• University of Cambridge, UK: "Writing South Africa Now" 26-27 June 2015 -- Call for Papers
  3rd annual colloquium on South African writing
  The deadline for papers is April 15, 2015.
• University of Cape Town, South Africa: "Southern African Pasts Before the Colonial Era, Their Archives, and Their Ongoing Present/Presence," July 16-18, 2015
  ***The extended deadline for proposals is February 12, 2015!
• The University of Texas at Austin: 2015 Annual Africa Conference -- "Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights in Africa," April 3-5, 2015 (Austin, Texas)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Early Maritime Cultures on the East African Coast," October 23-24, 2015 African Studies Program
  Call for Papers--The deadline for proposals is August 15, 2015.
• World Congress of African Linguistics: WOCAL 8--Kyoto, August 20-24, 2015 (Kyoto, Japan)
• 18th Annual Zanzibar International Film Festival -- Festival of the Dhow Countries: "Waves & Visions of Hope" 18-26 July 2015 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from the 2014 festival and earlier. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."

 

 

• Addis Foto Fest 2014: December 1-7, 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  
• The African American Institute: "The State of Education in Africa" Inaugural Annual Conference, September 9, 2014, New York (Washington, DC; New York)
  
• African Diaspora Film Festival: "Back to the Roots" Film Series, August 1-3, 2014, Columbia University Teachers College, New York
  --See also: African Diaspora International Film Festival, February 28-March 2, 2014, Columbia University Teachers College, New York
• African Film Festival of New York, 2014 Summer Series, July 7--September 7 (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.
  --Cinema Under the Stars: In the summer months, the screenings and accompanying performances take place in the parks around New York City.
  --See also: African Film Festival of New York, May 7-26, 2014, Lincoln Center, Maysles Cinema, & BAM Cinématek
• African Literature Association: 40th Annual Conference of the ALA-- "Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living In and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid," April 9-13, 2014, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  --See also: African Literature Association Home Page (via Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: ASAUK Biennial Conference 2014, September 9-11, 2014, University of Sussex, UK
  The deadline for panel proposals is September 20, 2013; a "call for papers" will follow soon thereafter.
• 13th International African Studies Conference, "Society and Politics in Africa: Traditional, Transitional, and New," Moscow, Russia, May 27-29, 2014 -- Call for Papers
• African Studies Association of the United States: 57th Annual Meeting of the ASA, "Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation," November 20-23, 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana (via Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)
  See especially: 2014 Preliminary program
  
• ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association -- 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art,
  The Brooklyn Museum, March 19–22, 2014, Brooklyn, New York
  The symposium site includes a list of accepted panels and panels still open for proposals. ***Final deadline is September 15, 2013.
  --Includes "Museum Day" at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19th
• Canadian Association of African Studies: "The Social Sciences and African Studies: The Fluidity of Disciplinary Boundaries in the Postcolonial Age," May 28-30, 2014, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences (via Ottawa, Canada)
• Columbia University -- African Studies Events (New York)
  • "Politique de la rue : citoyenneté, engagement et prise de parole dans les espaces publics d'Afrique de l'Ouest," du 19 au 21 juin 2014, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecole nationale de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée, Campus de l'Université Félix Houphouët Boigny (via Agenda Art Ivoire, Abidjan)
    Co-sponsored by Columbia University-Institute of African Studies, Université Paris I Sorbonne, Sciences-Po, et l'Institut Français de Côte d'Ivoire
  • 11th Annual African Economic Forum 2014: A Continent Ascends, Emergent Perspectives from the Frontier, April 4-5, 2014, Columbia University School of Law, New York
  • Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research:
    "Defying Injustice: Lessons from Defeating Apartheid to the Arab Spring, An Interactive Dialogue Among Activists and Scholars, April 10, 2014, Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia University School of Law (New York)
  • "The History of Poverty in Africa: A Central Question?", March 6-7, 2014 Sponsored by The Institute of African Studies
    --See also: Heyman Center for the Humanities--Announcement
• DAK'ART 2014: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, du 9 mai au 8 juin 2014, Dakar, Sénégal
  11ème Biennale! 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.
• 12th Ghana International Book Fair, Accra, Ghana, November 4-8, 2014
  
• International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa: 10th Conference of the ISOLA, University of Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, June 12-15, 2014 (via Paris, France; Niamey, Niger)
  --See also: French version
• 16th Annual Harlem Book Fair, July 10-13, 2014, New York: Columbia University, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Outside Exhibits at West 135th Street/Malcolm X Blvd (via QBR.com, New York)
  --See "HBF Program Guide"
• 17th Nairobi International Book Fair, 24-28 September 2014, Nairobi, Kenya  (via Kenya Publishers' Association)
• 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies, July 14-18, 2014, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 17th Time of the Writer= Le Temps des Ecrivains, International Festival of Writers, University of KwaZulu-Natal--Durban, March 17-24, 2014 (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
  This site provides information about the programme, the participants, and related links; plus information on previous festivals.

• African Literature Association: 39th Annual ALA Conference "Literature, Liberation and the Law," March 20-25, 2013, Charleston, South Carolina (Co-sponsored by Program of Carolina Low Country & Atlantic World, College of Charleston)
• 20th Anniversary New York African Film Festival, April-May 2013  (AFF, New York)
• 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, June 12-15, 2013, Paris, France
• Colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur la "Biodiversité végétale et les ressources thérapeutiques dans le Sahel," Université Cheikh Anta Diop II, Dakar, Sénégal, du 10 au 12 décembre 2013 (Observatoire Hommes-Milieux International, Tessékéré (Ferlo), Dakar-Fann, Sénégal)
• "Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West," January 17-20, 2013, Paris, France (An international conference co-sponsored by New York University-Paris, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Cornell University, Musée du quai Branly, FSHM, and L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts)
• Boston University, African Studies Center: 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, March 29-30, 2013 (Boston, Massachusetts)
• Canadian Association of African Studies: 43rd Annual CAAS Conference, "Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, Power," May 1-3, 2013, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  The deadline for proposals was February 25, 2013.
• Centre d'études des mondes africains (Paris, France): Colloque international "Yves Person (1925-1982), un historien de l'Afrique engagé dans son temps," du 20 au 21 juin 2013
  ",,,à l’initiative de ses collègues et de ses anciens élèves. Ce colloque a pour objet d’effectuer un retour à Yves Person et à son oeuvre d’historien de l’Afrique alliant à une exploitation rigoureuse des archives celle des sources orales."
  --Veuillez voir aussi, le blog officiel: Yves Person historien: son oeuvre sur l'Afrique et la Bretagne (Dr. Charles Becker, Marina Lafay et allii., via Hypotheses.org)
• Columbia University: 10th Annual African Economic Forum, "Africa Ignited: Exploring Ideas, Shaping Outcomes,", March 1-2, 2013 (Columbia Business School, New York)
• Columbia University Libraries, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship: Legacies of Aimé Césaire: The Work of Man Has Only Just Begun, December 5-6, 2013
  A 2-day "researchathon" and public forum
  --See also: Working Comprehensive Bibliography on Césaire (Zotero-based)
• Conference on "The Durban Moment: Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth, and Resistance in the 1970s," February 21-23, 2013, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (via SAHO--South African History Online, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa)
  Registration and abstracts and papers are availalble online.
• EthicMedAfrique : Nouveaux enjeux éthiques du médicament en Afrique, 1-2 juil. 2013, Dakar, Sénégal: Echanges pluridisciplinaires (sciences sociales, juridiques et santé publique) autour de l'éthique du médicament en Afrique de l'ouest et du centre.
  • Compte-rendu scientifique du colloque 11 pages en format PDF
  • Résumés 60 pages en format PDF
• Etonnants Voyageurs, Festival International du Livre et du Film: Les États Généreux des Littératures Africaines, 13-17 fevrier 2013, Brazzaville, Congo Palais des Congrés, Institut Français du Congo (via Saint-Malo, France)
  Veuillez voir aussi: le programme 48 pages en format PDF
• ECAS 2013: 5th European Conference on African Studies--"African Dynamics in a Multipolar World," June 27-29, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
  The deadline for proposals is January 16, 2013!
  The conference is organized by Centro de Estudos Africanos-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)) on behalf of AEGIS, the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies.
• FESPACO: Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
  The 23rd edition of FESPACO will take place from February 23-March 3, 2013.
  The official site in French: "Created in 1969 in Ouagadougou, on the initiative of a few film enthusiasts, it became an institution on January 7th 1972 by decree in Burkina Faso, because of the enthusiasm and the hope it created among the public and filmmakers in Africa. It is biennial; starting on the last Saturday in February every odd year." The site includes information about award-winning films from 2009 and previous festival years.
• 15th Annual Harlem Book Fair, New York, July 19-20, 2013 (via QBR.Com, New York)
  "The nation's largest African American literary event celebrating family literacy, community empowerment, and community cooperation." The program includes outdoor exhibits, panel discussions, and other events.
  --See especially: Author Panels at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, July 20, 2013, 11:50am-7:15pm (Co-sponsored by Columbia University School of the Arts)
• Harvard University, Africa Business Club: Africa Business Conference "Redefining Africa: The Emergence of a New African Story," February 15-17, 2013, Harvard Business School (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University: "Histories of Medicine in the Indian Ocean World," 26-27 April 2013 (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
• 45th Annual Liberian Studies Association Conference on "The Human Aspect of Development in Liberia: Steps, Strategies, and Sustainability," April 4-7, 2013, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (via Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)
• New York University: NYU Africa Economic Forum, April 6, 2013
  Presented by the NYU Stern African Business Club and NYU Africa House, in collaboration with Council of Young African Leaders and Vital Voices.
• Organization of Women Writers of Africa: "Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue," An International Symposium in Accra, Ghana, May 16-19, 2013 In association with New York University's Accra Program and the Mbaasem Foundation.
  --See also: NYU's Africana Studies information on the conference.
• Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS): Fall 2013 Conference--"Africa and the Atlantic World," 27-28 September 2013, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
  The proposal deadline is August 1, 2013.
• University of California, Los Angeles: "Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas," An International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers, April 11, 2013 (UCLA African Studies Center, Los Angeles)
  --See also: April 12, 2013
• Yale University: "Africa's Green Future: Nurturing the Vision of Wangari Maathai," September 19-20, 2013 (New Haven, Connecticut)
  --Co-sponsored by Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Africa Student Interest Group

• "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--Programme
  (via Kwantlen Polytechnical University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada)
• "Africa Writes 2012" , June 30-July 1, 2012, Inaugural Annual Literature and Book Festival Celebrating Contemporary African Writing (The Royal African Society, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK)
• African Studies Association of the United Kingdom: 2012 ASAUK Biennial Conference, 6-8 September 2012, Leeds University (Royal African Society, London, UK)
• 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!
• Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa: 5th Annual ASMEA Conference "History and the "New" Middle East and Africa, October 11-13, 2012, Washington, DC
  --Tentative schedule of panels and events
• Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia: African Studies Conference, Pavia University, Faculty of Political Science, 18-20 September 2012 (via Università di Pavia, Centro Studi Popoli Extra-Europei "Cesare Bonacossa" Dip. Di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italia)
  The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2012!
• 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 -- 2012 Special Events
  • African Diplomatic Forum 2012: "Statecraft: Leveraging Africa's Ascendance for Political Influence and Economic Development, November 16, 2012 (Co-sponsored by SIPA Pan African Network and the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University)
  • 9th Annual African Economic Forum, April 13-14, 2012, Columbia University Business School Co-sponsored with Columbia University Law School and the School of International & Public Affairs
• Boston University: 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, March 30-31, 2012--"Call for Papers" (Boston, Massachusetts)
  -- The deadline for applications is February 1, 2012.
• 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.
  -- Dak'Art 2012: Prospects and Challenges (June 2012) by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi ; plus, Photos of the exhibitions and events Nafas: art magazine. (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Berlin, Germany; in cooperation with Universes in Universe)
  -- Veuillez voir aussi: DAK'ART 2010
• Festival International de Littérature Orale Africaine, les 6, 7, et 8 décembre 2012, Niamey, Niger
  (Arts Cultura y Desarollo, Valencia, Espagne)
  --Veuillez voir aussi: Programme du Congrès international de littérature orale africaine
• New Approaches to Maternal Mortality in Africa, July 2-3, 2012, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK
  "...to provide a forum within which people with very different expertise and experience can explore the latest research findings...The following two areas, taken together, will form the focus of the conference: biological mechanisms determining birth outcomes ; the social and historical context for maternal mortality in Africa."
• International Conference on "Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm: the Social Construction of Illegality," October 25-27, 2012, Tervuren, Brussels, and Leuven, Belgium
  This event is co-sponsored by The Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren), Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. See especially: Panels and abstracts
• Colloque International "Saint-Louis du Sénégal et La Nouvelle-Orléans: Histoire comparée et croisée de deux cités portuaires de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique du XVIIe au XXe siècle," du 4 au 7 juin 2012, Université Gaston-Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal
  Organisé par Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, États-Unis; Centre Africain de Recherche sur les Traites et les Esclavages, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal; et Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, CENA / MASCIPO, Paris, France.
• "Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities," April 19-20, 2012, University of Chicago, Illinois
  (via College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts)
• Somali Studies International Association Congress 2012: "Envisioning the Future: Building on the Past -- Utilizing the Strengths of Somali Society and History," 11-13 October 2012, Lillehammer, Norway (Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue, Lillehammer, Norway)
  The 11th SSIA Congress is being hosted in cooperation with IFTIIN, Somali-Norwegian Knowledge Centre. See the program and call for papers. The deadline for abstracts is August 20, 2012.
"Sports and Community-Building in Africa and the Global South," April 6-7, 2012, Ohio University

• "We Face Forward" Art and Music from West Africa Today, Exhibitions and Events, 2 June -
  16 September 2012, Manchester, UK
• West African Association of Archaeology = Association Ouest Africaine d'Archéologie: 13th Colloquium of the W.A.A.A., Université Cocody-Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 27-30 November 2012
  The deadline for proposals is June 30, 2012.