These panels on the ASA Annual Meeting program are inviting your abstract submissions!
Due to extremely limited space at the Annual Meeting hotel and our desire for an inclusive meeting, the panels below are calling for additional abstract submissions to fill their their session. Presenters not already participating on the ASA program will be prioritized in selection. Submit to the panel organizers by extended deadline September 12.
If you don’t see a panel that aligns with your research, submit to the AfricaNow! CFP.
If you have questions, please email the ASA Secretariat at members@africanstudies.org.
New Frontiers in West African History (Closed)
West African societies were incredibly dynamic particularly from the eighteenth century onwards. In examining the…
Visual Dynamics and Black Care: Art, Ethics, and Infrastructures Across Africa and Its Diasporas (Deadline Extended)
This panel introduces visual dynamics as an emergent methodological framework for African and diasporic studies….
Beyond Grand Narratives: Sounding Global Black Thought through Lived Experience (Extended Deadline)
Global Black discourse is often framed through grand narratives and theoretical abstractions of ontological essentialism…
Complicated Circuits: International Solidarity for Southern Africa Liberation
This panel examines efforts to build global solidarity to end apartheid, colonialism and counterinsurgency in…
“Lateral” trauma and resilience in the African Great Lakes region (Extended Deadline)
This panel invites reflection on the ‘lateral’ dimension of transmission of trauma and resilience in…
Leadership in Unexpected Places: African women creating their own space to lead and thrive (Closed)
It is inarguable that women, particularly in patriarchal societies like in many African countries, have…
What Do We Owe? Thinking Debt & Indebtedness in African & Diasporic Music Studies (Extended Deadline)
The language of debt is capacious within African and Black diaspora studies. Used famously by…
Policy on Paper, Harm in Practice? Sexual Violence and Accountability on African Campuses
The panel will examine sexual violence governance as a critical site for understanding power, gender,…
Who do we write Africa for? Fault Lines of Fidelity (Extended Deadline)
The production of academic knowledge about Africa operates within complex networks of obligations; institutional metrics,…
Actually existing’ urban worlds: ruptured frameworks, everyday worlds, and the remaking of urban life in Africa (Closed)
The concept of “actually existing” urban worlds in Africa—considered in dialogue with the phrase’s history…
Sound, Memory, and Decolonial Imaginaries in the Afro-Atlantic World (Deadline Extended)
This panel explores how artists, writers, and thinkers across the Afro-Atlantic world mobilize aesthetic, philosophical,…
Reframing Africa’s Digital Governance: Power, Partnerships, and Policy in a Fragmenting Global Order
As geopolitical rivalry intensifies and confidence in universal models of global governance declines, digital policy…
African Films and Their Afterlives: Remakes, Reboots, and Re-Imaginings (Deadline Extended)
This panel explores issues bearing on screen-to-screen transfers in African cinema. What is the internal…
From Return to Remake: Diasporic Belonging and African Futures in a Shifting World
This panel examines Ghana’s Year of Return (2019) and Beyond the Return initiatives as critical…
Rethinking Epistemological Rupture: The African Ways of Co-creating and Knowing in a Shifting World
The ways in which Africa as a continent is study is still tied to Western…
Transnational Networks of Support: Senegal, Kenya, South Africa, and Beyond
This panel brings papers into conversation that examine African personal transnational networks of support and…
Political Remaking in the Sahel: Alliances, Identity, and Sovereignty
This panel aims to revisit how identity and politics interact in the West African Sahel…
Case Studies on Human Development in the DRC: Blueprints for Social Transformation (Extended Deadline)
Social change initiatives abound in the Democratic Republic of the Congo despite the overarching narrative…
Writing Otherwise In and Out of Africa (Closed)
(Closed for submissions) This panel explores autoethnography, ethnographic fiction, narrative ethnography and other forms of writing…
Political Institutions and Business Elites in Africa: Moving Beyond Natural Resources? (Extended Deadline)
Like African polities, African economies are in a moment of potentially profound rupture and reconfiguration:…