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Past Annual Meetings

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:

    TBA

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

63th 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

62th 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

61th 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

54th Annual Meeting

  • Date:

    2011 November 17 – 19

  • Program Chair:

    Carol Thompson (Northern Arizona University)

  • Theme:

    50 Years of African Liberation

  • Location:

    Washington, DC

53th 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

52th 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

51th 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

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

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

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

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