Annual Meeting History - 1957-2008

2009 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA- November 19-22, 2009)
Africa at a Crossroads

2008 Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL - November 13-16, 2008)
Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years

2007 Annual Meeting (New York, NY - October 18-21, 2007)
21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights

2006 Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA - November 16-19, 2006)
(Re)Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses

2005 Annual Meeting (Washington, DC - November 17-20, 2005)
Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora

2004 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA  -  November 11-14, 2004 )
The Power of Expression: Identity, Language, and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora

2003 Annual Meeting (Boston, MA - October 30 - November 2, 2003)
Youthful Africa in the 21st Century

2002 Annual Meeting (Washington, DC - December 5-8, 2002)
Africa in the Information and Technology Age

2001 Annual Meeting (Houston, TX - November 15-18, 2001)
Africa and the African Diaspora: Past, Present, Future

The African Studies Association sponsors an Annual Meeting, which provides an occasion for panels, plenary sessions and discussion groups, exhibits, and films. Participants from America, Africa, Asia and Europe gather for this meeting, which is held in different regions of North America, in cooperation with major colleges, universities and museums. With an average attendance of 2,000, the Annual Meeting has grown into one of the largest annual gatherings of Africanists in the world. Highlights of the Annual Meeting include the Abiola Lecture, the Presidential Address, and a distinguished speaker hosted by the Women's Caucus.

Past meetings were held in Chicago, IL (1998), Philadelphia, PA (1999), Nashville, TN (2000), Houston, TX (2001), Washington, DC (2002), Boston, MA (2003), New Orleans, LA (2004), Washington DC (2005), San Francisco, CA (2006), New York, NY (2007), Chicago, IL (2008) and New Orleans, LA (2009).