Past Conferences

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45th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Institutions of African Literature: Future, Present, Past"
Columbus Renaissance Downtown, Columbus, OH, May 15-18, 2019

 

44th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Environments of African Literature"
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington D.C., May 23-26, 2018

 

43rd Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies"
Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 14-17, 2017

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42nd Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora"
Emory University and Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, April 6-9, 2016

 

41st Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"African Futures and Beyond: Visions in Transition"
University of Bayreuth, June 3-6, 2015

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Witwatersrand240th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living In and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid"
University of the Witwatersrand, April 2014

 

 


charleston39th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Literature, Liberation, and the Law"
College of Charleston, March 2013

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smuThe 38th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association

"Human Rights, Literature, and the Visual Arts in Africa and the Diaspora"
SMU Dedman College, April 2012

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ohioThe 37th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association

"African Literature, Visual Arts & Film in Local and Transnational Spaces"
Ohio University, April 2011

 

arizonaThe 36th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association

"Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability"
University of Arizona, March 2010

 

 

vermontThe 35th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association

"African Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts"
University of Vermont, Burlington,April 2009

 

 

western_illinoisThe 34th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association

"African and African Diaspora Women Writers, Global Challenges and Cultural Identity"
Western Illinois University, April 2008