Past Conferences

Conferences | Seminars and Lectures

2007
Black Diasporic Experiences of Societal Engagement: The Politics of Inclusion - Engagement on whose terms? Library & Archives Auditorium, Ottawa, April 11-12, 2007 Community Building and Identity Formation in the African Diaspora Boston University, 30-31 March 2007 Money in Africa British Museum, London, from March 9th to 11th 2007 The Emergence of Ethnic Identities and Ethnic Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from the Pre-Colonial Societies to Decolonisation Faculdade de Letras do Porto, February 23-24, 2007 A Prairie Black History Workshop Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton (AB), February 5, 2007
2006
Twenty-first century slavery: issues and responses Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), at the University of Hull (UK), 23-24 November 2006 Announcement PDF DOC Slavery and Public History: An International Symposium Yale University, New Haven, CT, Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2006 Contours of Captivity: Resignifying Expressions of Power Gainesville, FL, United States, 2 to 3 November 2006 Slavery in Contemporary Art. An Interdisciplinary Conference on Trauma, Memory and Visuality University of Trier (Germany), October 26-28, 2006 Documenting Venture Smith, September 29 - 30, 2006 http://www.conferences.uconn.edu/venturesmith/ IX International Conference On African And Afroamerican Culture African Culture Center "Fernando Ortiz", Santiago De Cuba, April 10-15, 2006 Announcement Slavery And Freedom In The Atlantic World: Statutes, Science, And The Seas University of Michigan and University of Windsor, March 30-April 1, 2006 Announcement Movements, Migrations and Displacements in Africa University of Texas at Austin, March 24-26 2006 Call for Papers Cahuita Symposium on Slavery, Culture, and Religion Cahuita, Costa Rica, February 11-15th 2006 Call for Papers The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (F.E.E.G.I.) Pasadena, California, on February 3-4, 2006 Call for Papers
2005
Trabalho forçado africano – experiências coloniais comparadas Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 17 e 18 de Novembro de 2005 Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Conference: = Black European Studies = Johann-Gutenberg-University, Mainz (Germany), 10-13 November 2005 Call for Papers Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World Istanbul, Turkey, October 19-21, 2005 Call for Papers DIASPORIC ENCOUNTERS AND COLLABORATIONS Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-7, 2005 Call for Papers Diasporas, Migration, and Identities British Group in Early American History, Cambridge (England) September 9-11, 2005 Call for Papers 27ª Convocatoria SEMINARIO: ESTUDIOS SOBRE POBLACIONES Y CULTURAS DE HERENCIA AFRICANA EN MEXICO Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 9 de septiembre de 2005 Programa “The Role of Afrocentricity in the African Renaissance” University of Benin, Cotonou, July 29-30, 2005 Announcement “The Role of Afrocentricity in the African Renaissance” University of Benin, Cotonou, July 29-30, 2005 Announcement Slavery From Within Middelburg, The Netherlands, 22-24 June 2005 Announcement Conference on African Americans and the Civil War (CAACW) Petersburg, VA, May 26 – 28, 2005 Call for Papers Mémoire croisées : esclavage et diaspora africaine / Crossing memories : slavery and african diasporas Université Laval, Québec (City), 2nd and 3rd May 2005 Announcement FURTHERING THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE: CROSS REGIONAL COMPARISONS Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal, April 27 – May 1, 2005 Announcement Activating the Past: Latin America in the Black Atlantic UCLA International Institute, April 23-24, 2005 Announcement The Black Diaspora in Narratives of Human Agency and Resistance: Exploring Dialectics of Faith--Honoring the Legacy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett Luther College, Decorah (Iowa) , February 18, 2005 Announcement BOUKI BLUES FESTIVAL Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (Senegal) January 5-12, 2005 Call for Papers
2004
Between Race and Place Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the Mainland caribbean Tulane University, November 12-13, 2004 Conference Website Beyond Colonial Studies: An Inter-American Encounter Providence (Rhode Island), November 4-6, 2004 Call for Papers A pan-Caribbean Perspective on the Atlantic World: New Directions in Scholarship York University, Toronto (Canada), 14th - 16th October 2004 Call for Papers Program Photo Album Revolution, Independence, and Emancipation: The Struggle Against Slavery in the Circum-Caribbean Limon (Costa Rica), August 26-28, 2004 Conference agenda Marking the 200 Years Of Uthman Dan Fodio Jihad In Kano Kano State History and Culture Bureau, 27-29 July, 2004 Announcement THE BICENTENARY OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE (1804 - 2004) ABUJA, Monday 14th – Wednesday 16th June 2004 Website Avignon Conference on Slavery and Unfree Labour Université d’Avignon , Avignon (France) May 20-22, 2004 Call for Papers The Early Modern Travel Narrative: Production And Consumption USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute, Los Angeles, April 30-May 2, 2004 Call for Papers Perspectives On Yoruba History And Culture University of Texas at Austin, March 26-28, 2004 Announcement La traite, l'esclavage colonial, la révolution de Saint-Domingue et les droits de l'homme Université du Québec à Montréal, 4 et 5 mars 2004 Announcement BLACK HISTORY MONTH WORKSHOP Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University, Friday, 27 February, 2004 Programme
2003
Text & Testimony Collective Conference CITY LIFE IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY: CELEBRATING BRIDGETOWN University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados) December 11-13, 2003 Announcement Programme "Conceptualising Atlantic Studies" Cunliffe Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton (England), November 11-12 Announcement Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast (Ghana) November 10-14, 2003 Call for Papers Abstracts & Papers Conference on Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora Department of History York University, October 24-26, 2003 Announcement Conference Programme DOC or PDF Registration Form DOC or PDF AFFIRMATIONS AND CONTESTATIONS: INTERROGATING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) October 2-4, 2003 Call for Papers Angola On The Move: Transport Routes, Communications, And History Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin (Germany) September 24-26, 2003 Announcement RESISTANCE AND ACCOMMODATION: STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL IN SLAVE SOCIETIES University of Nottingham (UK) September 8-10, 2003 Announcement and Call for Papers History and Genealogy Conference Buxton National Historic Site & Museum, Buxton (Ontario) August 29 - September 1, 2003 Announcement 51st International Congress Of Americanists "Re-Thinking The Americas At The Threshold Of The 21st Century" Symposium: Afroamerican Diasporas Historical Settings, Atlantic Dialogues, Shifts And Prospective Visions Santiago (Chile) July 14-18, 2003 Call for Papers Announcement (PDF) Congress Website African Diaspora: The Making of the Atlantic World World Trade Center, Willemstad - Curaçao (The Netherlands Antilles), June 28 - July 1, 2003 Programme Escravidão Africana & Tráfico Atlântico nas Américas Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) June 2-4, 2003 Announcement The VII-th International Workshop of Africanisms in the Caribbean "Ortiz Lachatañeré" The African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz", Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), April 8 - 11, 2003 Announcement "Revisiting Slave Narratives " Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III (France) April 4-5, 2003 Call for Papers "African Urban Spaces: History and Culture" University of Texas, Austin (Texas) March 28 - 30, 2003 Call for Papers Conference Web Page HOUSTON'S BLACK HISTORY WORKSHOP: "Oppositional Culture and Class Struggle" University of Houston, March 20-22, 2003 Call for Papers The European Conquest Of The Sokoto Caliphate: One Hundred Years After Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, March 15 - 16 ,2003 Call for Papers PORTUGAL IN THE WORLD Junior Common Room, Winters College, York University, March 15th, 2003 Announcement & Conference Programme Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in American History and Legend Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, February 27 - March 1, 2003 Programme The African Americas Symposium University of Pennsylvania, February 27 & 28, 2003 Announcement Symposium Website Workshop on the Underground Railroad and the History of Blacks in Upper Canada The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora Founders College, York University, February 21, 2003 Announcement Seascapes, Littoral Cultures and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges Conference at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC (USA) February 13 - 15, 2003 Call for Papers The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York) February 7-8, 2003 Call for Proposals
2002
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Centre de Recherches Africaines, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, (France) December 16-17, 2002 Workshop Africa in the Information and Technology Age African Studies Association 45th Annual Meeting Washington, DC December 5-8, 2002 Call for Papers Gendering The Diaspora: Women, Culture And Historical Change In The Caribbean And The Nigerian Hinterland Dartmouth College, Hanover (New Hampshire) November 22-24, 2002 Call for Papers Website The trans-Atlantic construction of the notions of ‘race’, black culture, blackness and antiracism: towards a new dialogue between researchers in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Gorée Institute, Gorée (Senegal) November 11-17, 2002 Call for Papers Abstracts Africa's Intellectual Caravans: Bilad As Sudan And Al Maghaarib Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (New York) November 7 - 9, 2002 Call for Papers Fourth Avignon Conference on Slavery and Forced Labour Université d’Avignon , Avignon (France) October 16-18, 2002 Call for Papers International Interdisciplinary Workshop: Practices of the Self and Experiences of Worldliness Readings from Africa and Its Elsewheres Johannesburg, (South Africa) August 8-9, 2002 Announcement Database Construction and the African Diaspora York University, Toronto, July 2-12, 2002 Announcement Programme Online Papers Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Centre de Recherches Africaines, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, (France) June 30, 2002 Call for Papers Fifth International Conference on Mande Studies Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands) June 17 - 21, 2002 Announcement The Global And The Local: Africa In The World And The World In Africa The 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 29 May - 1 June 2002 Announcement Conference website First African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference Hamilton, (Bermuda) May 25-28, 2002 Conference Website The State Of The Art(S): African Studies And American Studies In Comparative Perspective University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, May 8-11, 2002 Call for Papers Africas of the Americas University of Maryland, April 18-20, 2002 Announcement Nigeria in the Twentieth Century Flawn Academic Center, The University of Texas at Austin, March 29-31, 2002 Announcement Uncovering Connections: Cultural Endurance between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean DIRECT Center, Medgar Evers College-City University of New York, March 15-16, 2002 Call for Papers Eric Williams: His Scholarship, Work and Impact Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, February 15-16, 2002 Announcement Programme Conference on Caribbean Culture 2 University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica) January 9-12, 2002 Announcement Programme Conference Website
2001
"Aguda: Aspects of Afro-Brazilian Heritage in the Bight of Bénin" Porto-Novo (Republique du Bénin) November 26-30 2001 Announcement Programme International Colloquium: "500 Years In America, 150 Years Since Abolition Of Slavery. Past And Present Afro-Descendents In Latin America And Caribbean" Cartagena de Indias, October 18-20, 2001. Announcement (english) Anuncio (spanish) Programación (spanish) Avis de Colloque (french)
	The 2nd Wilberforce International Conference On Slave Narratives Consolidating Our Gains: Strategizing For The 21st Century Wilberforce, Ohio, October 11-13, 2001 Conference highlights Conference Programme