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49th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
"Filiations and Affiliations: Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures"
University of Louisville, KY, USA: May 23-25, 2024
48th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
"Crossings: Africans Moving In/Across Space and Time"
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, TN, USA: May 24- May 27
47th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
“Beyond Censorship? Literature, Film, Media, and Public Discourse.”
Virtual: May 26th-May 29th
46th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
“Beyond Censorship? Literature, Film, Media, and Public Discourse.”
Cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic
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
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
40th 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
39th Annual meeting of the African Literature Association
"Literature, Liberation, and the Law"
College of Charleston, March 2013
The 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
The 37th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
"African Literature, Visual Arts & Film in Local and Transnational Spaces"
Ohio University, April 2011
The 36th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association
"Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability"
University of Arizona, March 2010
The 35th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association
"African Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts"
University of Vermont, Burlington,April 2009
The 34th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association
"African and African Diaspora Women Writers, Global Challenges and Cultural Identity"
Western Illinois University, April 2008