African Studies Association
Past Annual Meetings

 

 

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 1,700, 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 San Francisco (1996), Columbus (1997), Chicago (1998), Philadelphia (1999), Nashville (2000), and Houston (2001), Washington, DC (2002), Boston, MA (2003), New Orleans, LA (2004), Washington DC (2005), and San Francisco (2006).

Future meeting sites:
New York, NY - October 18-21, 2007 – 50th Anniversary of the ASA’s founding!
Chicago, IL - November 13-16, 2008 – 50th Anniversary of the first ASA Annual Meeting!

New Orleans, LA - November 19-22, 2009
San Francisco, CA - November 18-21, 2010
Washington, DC – November 17-20, 2011

FUTURE ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION
 

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