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Annual Meetings

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 Fred Moten and Stefano Harney […]

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, and institutional legitimacy in contemporary […]

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, donor priorities, ethical review systems, […]

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 in accounts of neoliberalism, socialism, […]

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, and cultural practices to confront […]

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 has emerged as a critical […]

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 logic of remediation at play […]

AfricaNow! 2026 is Open for Submissions

The African Studies Association (ASA) is excited to continue our AfricaNow! format to accommodate emerging issues on our Annual Meeting […]

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 interventions in reconfiguring Africa–Diaspora relations […]

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 theory and carries the germs […]
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