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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.
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Accompanied Research in African Studies
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
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
In collaboration with the West African Research Association (WARA), this panel invites contributions examining how…
Displacement and Remake in Northern Nigeria
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)
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
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?
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
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
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
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
If the hype generated by Tech Bros, social media influencers, and venture capitalists is to…
Africanfuturist Acts of and Responses to Rupture
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
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
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
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
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
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
West African cities are vibrant laboratories of layered memories, where material, cultural, practical, and environmental…