68th Annual Meeting
Date:
TBD
Program Chairs:
TBD
Theme:
TBD
Location:
TBD
67th Annual Meeting
Date:
2024 December 12 – 14
Program Chairs:
Alice Kang (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso (Brandeis University)
Theme:
Global Africa
Location:
Chicago, IL
Program Book:
2024 Program Book PDF
66th Annual Meeting
Date:
2023 November 30 – December 2
Program Chairs:
Claudia Gastrow (University of Johannesburg) and Shobana Shankar (Stony Brook University)
Theme:
African Presences: Envisioning Africa in Text and Deed
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Program Book:
2023 Program Book PDF
65th Annual Meeting
Date:
2022 November 17 – 19
Program Chairs:
Antoinette Tidjani Alou (Université Abdou Moumouni) and Charles Tshimanga-Kashama (University of Nevada, Reno)
Theme:
African Urbanities: Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges
Location:
Philadelphia, PA
Program Book:
2022 Program Book PDF
64th Annual Meeting
Date:
2021 November 16 – 20
Program Chairs:
Gretchen Bauer (University of Delaware) and Akosua Darkwah (University of Ghana)
Theme:
Re-Centering Africa: Resistance and Renewal In A World Beyond COVID-19
Location:
Virtual
Program Book:
2021 Program Book PDF
63rd Annual Meeting
Date:
2020 November 19 – 21
Program Chairs:
Carina Ray (Brandeis University) and Prinisha Badassy (University of Witwatersrand)
Theme:
The Hour of Decision: Power, Persistence, Purpose, and Possibility in African Studies
Location:
Virtual
Program Book:
2020 Program Book PDF
62nd Annual Meeting
Date:
2019 November 21 – 23
Program Chairs:
Matthew Heaton (Virginia Tech) and James Ogude (University of Pretoria)
Theme:
Being, Belonging, and Becoming in Africa
Location:
Boston, MA
Program Book:
2019 Preliminary Program Book PDF
61st Annual Meeting
Date:
2018 November 29 – December 1
Program Chairs:
Nana Akua Anyidoho (University of Ghana) and Mark Auslander (Michigan State University)
Theme:
Energies: Power, Creativity, and Afro-Futures
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Program Book:
2018 Preliminary Program Book PDF
60th Annual Meeting
Date:
2017 November 16 – 18
Program Chairs:
Marissa Moorman (Indiana University Bloomington) and Susanna Wing (Haverford College)
Theme:
Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa
Location:
Chicago, IL
Program Book:
2017 Preliminary Program Book PDF
59th Annual Meeting
Date:
2016 December 1 – 3
Program Chairs:
Benjamin N. Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology) and William G. Moseley (Macalester College)
Theme:
Imagining Africa at the Center: Bridging Scholarship, Policy, and Representation in African Studies
Location:
Washington, DC
Program Book:
2016 Preliminary Program PDF
58th Annual Meeting
Date:
2015 November 19 – 21
Program Chairs:
Dismas A. Masolo (University of Louisville) and Derek R. Peterson (University of Michigan)
Theme:
The State and the Study of Africa
Location:
San Diego, CA
Program Book:
2015 Preliminary Program PDF
57th Annual Meeting
Date:
2014 November 20 – 23
Program Chairs:
Odile Cazenave (Boston University) and Clifton Crais (Emory University)
Theme:
Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation
Location:
Indianapolis, IN 2014 Preliminary Program
Program Book:
2014 Program PDF
56th Annual Meeting
Date:
2013 November 21 – 24
Program Chairs:
Jamie Monson (Macalester College) and Dianna Shandy (Macalester College)
Theme:
Mobility, Migration, and Flows
Location:
Baltimore, MD
Program Book:
2013 Program PDF
55th Annual Meeting
Date:
2012 November 29 – December 1
Program Chairs:
Staffan I. Lindberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University of Florida) and Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Theme:
Research Frontiers in the Study of Africa
Location:
Philadelphia, PA
Program Book:
2012 Program PDF
54th Annual Meeting
Date:
2011 November 17 – 19
Program Chair:
Carol Thompson (Northern Arizona University)
Theme:
50 Years of African Liberation
Location:
Washington, DC
53rd Annual Meeting
Date:
2010 November 29 – December 1
Program Chair:
Mamadou Diof (Columbia University)
Theme:
African Diasporas and Diasporas in Africa
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Program Book
2010 Program PDF
52nd Annual Meeting
Date:
2009 November 19 – 22
Program Chair:
Aili M. Tripp (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Theme:
Africa at a Crossroads
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Program Book
2009 Program PDF
51st Annual Meeting
Date:
2008 November 19 – 22
Program Chair:
Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh)
Theme:
Knowledge of Africa: The Next 50 Years
Location:
Chicago, IL
Program Book
2008 Program PDF
50th Annual Meeting
Date:
2007 October 18 – 21
Program Chair:
Stanlie M. James (Arizona State University)
Theme:
21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights
Location:
New York, NY
Program Book
2007 Program PDF
49th Annual Meeting
Date:
2006 November 16 – 19
Program Chairs:
John Harbeson (CUNY) and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford University)
Theme:
(Re)thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Program Book
2006 Program PDF
48th Annual Meeting
Date:
2005 November 17 – 20
Program Chair:
Elisha P. Renne (University of Michigan)
Theme:
Health, Knowledge and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora
Location:
Washington, DC
Program Book
2005 Program PDF
47th Annual Meeting
Date:
2004 November 11 – 14
Program Chairs:
Dennis Cordell (Southern Methodist University) and Philip Zachernuk (Dalhousie University)
Theme:
The Power of Expression: Identity, Language, and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora
Location:
New Orleans, LA
46th Annual Meeting
Date:
2003 October 31 – November 2
Program Chair:
Peter D. Little (University of Kentucky)
Theme:
Youthful Africa in the 21st Century
Location:
Boston, MA