Use the Call for Co-Panelists forum to assemble sessions for the ASA CFP! Sessions must be submitted to the CFP.
Interact with the forum in two ways:
- Post a session proposal to find fellow presenters for your session. Once you’ve formed your complete session(s), submit to the Annual Meeting CFP. Session organizers are responsible for remaining in contact with interested panelists as well as with the ASA Secretariat.
- Join a posted session below! If the organizer submits your abstract with their session, please do not submit your abstract as an individual paper proposal. If the organizer does not accept your abstract to their session proposal, please submit to the Annual Meeting CFP as part of another session or individual paper proposal.
Please review ASA Submission Guidelines. If you have questions, please email the ASA Secretariat at members@africanstudies.org.
Centering African Youth in Contemporary State-Society Relations: Youth Agency, Institutional Contestation, and Governance Transformation (Deadline Extended!)
Across the continent, African youth stand at the forefront of profound political, economic, and social…
Challenges of the Introduction of the Licence-Maitrise-Doctorat (LMD) Articulation in the Higher Education System of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Deadline Extended!)
The implementation of the Licence‑Maîtrise‑Doctorat (LMD) framework in the higher education system of the Democratic…
Confronting Bondage: History, Memory, and New Research Relating to Slavery’s Legacy in African and African Diasporic Scholarship
As a historical institution and a lived experience, slavery continues to have a significant impact…
West African Food Studies Panel (Closed for Submissions)
How is food tied to identity and belonging? How have culinary practices, markets, and customer…
Honoring a Giant of African Scholarship: Asmarom Legesse and the Intellectual Legacy of Gada and Oromo Studies
Proposed by: Amsale Alemu and Teferi TafaPanel Type: Memorial / Scholarly Tribute Track: African Indigenous…
Rethinking African Social and Economic History: Memory, Marginalization, Gender and History from Below
As many African societies confront successive historical ruptures which include colonial disruption, economic restructuring, and…
Leadership in Unexpected Places: African women creating their own space to lead and thrive (Deadline Extended!)
In a 2024 study of Kenyan women that focused on how they navigated the workplace…
Africa and America’s Historic Connections
’Maternal’’ and ‘’Filial’’ Connections between Africa and America.LOUIS MENDYProfessor of American Studies at Cheikh Anta…
Writing Otherwise in and out of Africa
This panel explores autoethnography, ethnographic fiction, narrative ethnography and other forms of writing otherwise as…
Transdisciplinarity, Knowledge, and Education
This panel will explore the role of transdisciplinarity in education in and about Africa from…
Education and Pedagogy for Peace-Building
This presentation examines the role of education and pedagogy in advancing peace-building processes in North…
The Women’s Caucus Working Group on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in African Studies
The deadline for submitting proposals for ASA26 is in just a few weeks on March…
Cinematic Ruptures and Shifts in the West African Family
In many West African countries and cultures, the family has been a key site that…
Fieldwork Under Constraint: Emerging Scholars Navigating Rupture and Remake (Closed for Submissions)
Fieldwork has always been at the core of the Africanist project. But what happens when…
ASWAD Sponsored Sessions: “It’s time to sit together and talk a little culture”: African Diasporas: Past, Present, and Future
Organizers: ASWAD Executive BoardName of Organizing Chair: Cheryl Sterling The title of this call, “It’s time…
Learning from Abroad: Higher Education, Developmentalism, and Indigeneity in Post-independence Africa (Closed for Submissions)
This panel seeks contributions exploring the ways in which educational projects originating beyond Africa sought…
Planetary Africa
What does the planetary look like when approached from Africa? This panel interrogates how science…
Who Do We Write Africa for? Fault Lines of Fidelity
The production of academic knowledge about Africa operates within complex networks of obligations; institutional metrics,…
Decolonization and Self-determination in Focus: Ruptures, Competing Visions and Possibilities in Colonial Africa
The decolonial moment in Africa was neither a linear march toward the nation-state nor ideologically…
Decolonizing the Classroom: Indigenous Epistemologies and Pedagogical Transformation in West Africa
In an era of rapid technological change, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and data-driven pedagogy, global…
Africa and its Diasporas: Advancing Connected Conversations on Birthing, Reproductive Justice, Wellness, and Decolonial Healing (Closed for Submissions)
Conversations about health and healing in Africa and the African diaspora are often organized within…
Rupture, remake and the substances of wellbeing (Closed for Submissions)
Much attention has been devoted to the role substances, from bodily fluids, to food, in…
Africa and the World: Concepts, Uses, Histories (Closed for Submissions)
(Sponsored by the African Literature Association)Concepts of the world are commonplace in current academic discourse…
Voices from the Sahel: Women Building Archives of Memory and Futurity
This panel looks at the literary and cultural work of African women in the Sahel…
Accompanied Research in African Studies (Closed for Submissions)
Organizers:Sophia Thubauville, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt, GermanyJudit Tavakoli, Goethe University, Frankfurt, GermanyQualitative research and knowledge production…
Theorising African Built Environments
The call to theorise from the Global South has generated important and creative interventions across…
Diasporic Identity Formation and Survival
Diaspora is not only a condition of movement; it is a site of economic production,…
Traditional Arts in Contemporary African Literature by Women (Closed for Submissions)
Contemporary African literature written by women often infuses traditional art forms as a means of…
Environmental Memory, Bodies and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in West African Extractive Landscapes (Deadline Extended!)
In collaboration with the West African Research Association (WARA), this panel invites contributions examining how…
Displacement and Remake in Northern Nigeria (Deadline Extended!)
This panel is seeking papers that investigate the ways in which displacement and restructuring are…
Archives of Suspicion: Intelligence, Solidarities, and African Lives in the Cold War (1940s-1980s) (Closed for Submissions)
This panel invites papers that explore how Cold War intelligence practices, political solidarities, and ideological…
Post-Harvest Loss and the Spatial-Digital Remaking of African Food Networks
Across the African continent, food systems are marked by a striking paradox: high levels of…
Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: Sustainability, Spillovers, and Social Transformation
This panel examines foreign direct investment (FDI) and its social and economic effects across African…
Gendering Social Order and Ordering Gender in Precolonial Africa (Closed for Submissions)
I am seeking co-panelists to participate in a capacious conversation about gender and social order…
Court Records and African Lives: Adjudication, Proof, and the Making of Social Knowledge
Africanist scholars have long emphasized the richness of court archives. While adjudicators sought to isolate…
Personal Transnational Networks of Support: Empowerment or Trap? (Closed for Submissions)
This panel or series of panels seeks to bring papers into conversation that examine African…
China, Development, and Security in Africa: Practices, Paradoxes, and Local Political Orders (Closed for Submissions)
This panel invites papers that critically examine China’s expanding roles in African development and security—from…
Everyday Geographies of Safety: Space, Infrastructure, and the Politics of (In)Security in African Contexts (Closed for Submissions)
This panel invites papers that examine how safety and insecurity are produced through everyday spatial…
The urban and more-than-urban geographies of the African city (Closed for Submissions)
Much of the rich recent scholarship on urban Africa focuses primarily on the city scale,…
African Studies Keywords
The African Studies Review (ASR) invites proposals for its Keyword essay panel at the 2026 annual meeting…
Thinking through the (coming) proliferation of “AI” in Africa’s Cities: Fractures, Futures, and the Space Between (Closed for Submissions)
If the hype generated by Tech Bros, social media influencers, and venture capitalists is to…
Africanfuturist Acts of and Responses to Rupture (Closed for Submissions)
This panel engages with the 2026 ASA meeting’s theme of “Rupture and Remake: African Possibilities…
Margins of the Atlantic?: Reframing Coastal–Inland Histories in West African Archaeology
This session brings together historical archaeological research that reexamines the interwoven worlds of coastal and…
Women, Disruption, and the Politics of (Un)Belonging
At a time of intensified regulation of women’s bodies, movements, and voices, women writers are…
From Fallism to the Student Intifada: Transnational Student Uprisings and Decolonial Possibilities – Deadline Extended
Ten years after the conclusion of South Africa’s Fallist movements, universities across the world are…
Filmic Ruptures and Black World-Making: Cinema as Epistemology in African and Afro-Diasporic Contexts
It was a few years after the eve of Senegal’s independence that the first film…
Bodies, Gender, and Transgression: Francophone North African Literary Revisions of Power and Belonging
Maghrebi literature persistently engages the body as a critical site wherein colonial violence, gendered oppression,…
Adventures in African Oral History (Closed for Submissions)
Oral history in its many forms has been an integral part of African history. Africanist…
Humanitising psychology in Uganda beyond humanistic psychology: An interview with Prof. Julius Fred Kikooma
Presently, there is growing interest in research on psychology in the context of humanities and…
Digital Democracy and Distributed Citizenship in Africa: Platforms, Labor, and Political Remaking (Closed for Submissions)
As African societies confront profound political, economic, and technological transformations, democratic life is increasingly experienced…
Policy on Paper, Harm in Practice? Sexual Violence and Accountability on African Campuses (Deadline Extended!)
The panel will examine sexual violence governance as a critical site for understanding power, gender,…
Emerging Scholars, World-Making, and New Directions in African Studies
Sponsored by: ASA Emerging Scholars NetworkIn a shifting world, the innovative research of emerging Africanist…
Afro-Diasporic Feminist Imaginations: Rupture and Remaking in Contemporary Cultural Production (Closed for Submissions)
For the 69th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Rupture and Remake: African Possibilities…
Beyond the Monumental: Hybrid Traces, Urban Memories, and Contested Heritages in West African Cities (Closed for Submissions)
West African cities are vibrant laboratories of layered memories, where material, cultural, practical, and environmental…