Please find below a series of proposed sessions that you may join by submitting an abstract or following the individual contact instructions. Once filled, these sessions must be submitted to the 2024 Annual Meeting CFP by the organizer or chair.
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Africanfuturism: A Recentering of Afrofuturism
Extended Deadline: March 22 In 2019, Nigerian-American science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor coined the…
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Africa Indigenous Knowledge systems and Entrepreneurship in marginalized communities
Extended deadline: March 22 Unlocking opportunities in entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihood through Indigenous Knowledge Systems in…
IKS and herbal medicine among the Abatwa people
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) play a vital role in the utilization of natural resources, particularly…
Exploring Gadaa: A Pillar of African Philosophy
This panel delves into the intricate tapestry of Gadaa, an indigenous socio-political system of the…
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Beyond Profit: Extracting and Assessing the Scope of Violence in West Africa’s Mining Industry
Extended Deadline: March 22 Potential presenters are sought for the West Africa Research Association’s (WARA) co-sponsored…
Connecting Institutions through COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning)
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) offers low-cost opportunities for students and instructors to connect with…
African Femininems, Gender and Sexuality
African women sometimes consider themselves walking in a political/gender tightrope. On one hand, they are…
West African Centenaries: What and How to celebrate
The University of Sierra Leone marked the founding of Fourah Bay College (FCB) by displaying…
‘Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo’: Rethinking Zimbabwe
2017 marked a seminal turning point in Zimbabwe’s political and social history. The arrival of…
Shifting Alliances and Dynamic Threats in the Sahel
The Sahel, a vast swathe of semi-arid land stretching across Africa, grapples with a confluence…
Asia and Africa in Emerging World Order: Opportunities and Contested South-South Cooperation
Africa of today is global Africa It is deeply connected with developed, emerging, and developing…
Epidemiological Legacies and African Medical Systems
Across the African continent, the disease “epidemic” has been an influential organizing construct within everyday…
Feminist Amefricanity: Resistance and Representation in Contemporary Cultural Production
In 1988, Afro-Brazilian anthropologist Lélia Gonzalez advocated for a paradigm shift in her essay “A…
Political Economy of Development
This panel examines topics related to the political economy of development in contemporary African economies….
Women and Gender in pre-1800 (West) Africa
I am seeking two-three presenters and a chair and/or discussant for a panel that broadly…
Africa, Sustainable Development and Global Waste Disposal
In 2015, the United Nations adopted The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a universal call…
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] (Author Meets Critic Roundtable) Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern Africa
Extended deadline: March 22 Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological…
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] “Maji ni Uhai. Water is Life:” Indigenous vs. Colonial Epistemologies of Water
Extended deadline: March 22 Across the African continent processes and technologies of nineteenth-century European imperialism, especially…
Globalization and the Lives of Women in Africa
The 1980s IMF’s and World Bank’s Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) sort to orient developing economies…
Roundtable – Investigating gendered norms and political practices
To what extent are gender and femininity part of the political system in the African…
Bridging the Gap: Addressing Health Disparities Among African Immigrants in the United States
The United States government recognizes health disparity as a unique form of health differentiation closely…
Commodities and Economic Sovereignty in Africa
Debates about economic sovereignty in colonial and post-colonial Africa have often centered on commodity production….
Private Governance and the Public Good: Rule-Making Beyond the State
Despite the overwhelming focus on states as rule-makers and arbiters of order, across much of…
African Histories of the Holocaust
Fewer topics have been more studied than the Holocaust (Shoah). The rise, fall, and legacies…
Organizing for LGBT+ Rights Movements in West Africa
There is an icreasing trend of sexual repression in Africa, and this can derail progress…
Cinematic Practices in Africa and Western Capital
There has always been a close tie between professional and commercial cinematic practices in Africa…
The Dynamism of Debt in Everyday Life
This proposed panel seeks to explore the multiple meanings, diverse purposes, and complex consequences of…
Conflict in the Great Lakes: Problems, Perspectives, New Research
Panel Leaders and Discussants: Patrick Boyle Ph. D and Brian Endless, Ph. D, both from…
The political economy of energy transitions in Africa
Amidst the global energy transition agenda, policymakers face difficult trade-offs between decarbonization and other objectives…
The Perennial Fulani Complexities in Contemporary Africa: Which Way Forward?
The Fulani, Fula or Fulɓe are an outstanding ethnic group in sub-Saharan Africa because they…
Party organisations in Africa: appropriating and challenging global political practices
Political parties as organisations are expected to link societies to the state. The colonial and…
Islam, Social Welfare and Charity in Africa
In Aminata Sow Fall’s 1979 novel, The Beggar’s Strike (La Grève des Battu), Dakar’s beggars…
Framing Africa: The Geopolitical Discourse of Fictional African Countries and US Foreign Policy
The portrayal of fictional African countries in media often perpetuates stereotypes and misconceptions about the…
Democracy and Dictatorship in Africa and Latin America
Democracies in Africa and Latin America share many common challenges: weak institutional foundations, dissatisfied voters,…
Africa’s Environment in Atlantic History
Atlantic environmental history has become an established subfield among scholars of the Atlantic world to…
Gender, Sexuality and Memory
Our panel will focus on literary, visual, and other cultural productions as acts of memory…
Fight of the Century: The Rumble in the Jungle 50 years on
In the year marking the 50th anniversary of 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle, we invite…
Religion and Spirituality in Africa
Are you passionate about exploring the rich and diverse religious and spiritual practices across Africa?…
Representations of Women in Third Generation African and African-American Novels
Third generation African and African-American writers are defined as those who are born within the…
Competing and Coexisting Vernaculars in Science, Technology, and Health in Africa
Various individuals and groups have laid claim to expertise in scientific, technological, and medical domains…
Forced International Migration In Southern Africa
Forced migration has been a key feature of politics in southern Africa owing to factors…
Feminist Amefricanity: Resistance and Representation in Contemporary Cultural Production
In 1988, Afro-Brazilian anthropologist Lélia Gonzalez advocated for a paradigm shift in her essay “A…
Decolonial letters
A trivial fact about colonial infrastructure in Africa: most colonial railroads led to the sea….
Decolonising the African Linguistic and cultural Identities: Advocating for Context Specific Linguistic and Cultural Policies to Enhance Peace and Security in Africa
Among the core global goals, peace and security are emphasised. More importantly, global peace and…
Decolonizing Tourism
How can we decolonize tourism? Let’s discuss examples from the continent including my work in…
Critical Junctures: Global Dimensions in Emergent African Scholarship
Innovative research produced by Emerging African(ist) Scholars constitute significant vantage points for gauging the pulse…
Novel Approaches for Creating Juvenile Titles in Underserved African Languages
The panel proposal will collect papers that explore novel approaches to expanding access to juvenile…
African Music and Popular Culture in a Globalizing World
In a globalizing world, African music and popular cultures continue to reshape cultural landscapes, transcending…
Commemorative Landscapes/Practices and Women’s Political Activism
Echoing global gender inequities, the contributions of South African women to the dismantling of the…
Teaching With and About Afrolatinidad
One in four Latin Americans identify as Afrodescendants. This panel considers teaching strategies that use…
Race and Class in African Television
How can we understand the complex dynamics of race and class through an analysis of…
[EXTENDED DEADLINE] Dissociation, Amnesia, memory hoarding and Trauma in Sub-Saharan African Fe-migritude Writing
Extended deadline: March 22 This call for papers is on African women who migrate between unstable…
African Studies Keywords
The African Studies Review published the State of the Art overview essays from 1980 to…