A Roundtable for the African Literature Association Annual conference: Nairobi, June 25-28, 2025 In the past few years, much scholarly attention has been devoted to the African literary curriculum: what gets taught, what gets neglected, what it would mean to Read More …
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African Studies Association’s Women’s Caucus’ Aidoo Snyder Book Prize Seeks Submissions
The 2024 Aidoo-Snyder creative book prize will be given for the best creative work by a woman (or women) that prioritizes African women’s experiences. To this end, the committee invites nominations from publishers or authors. Self-published books are not eligible, Read More …
Rethinking Refugeehood in Contemporary African Migration Narratives — Edited Volume
Revised deadline for proposals/abstracts: December 10, 2024 Editors: Rebecca Fasselt and Joya Uraizee African writers and filmmakers have responded to large-scale population upheavals in avariety of ways, including mixing memoir and fantasy, fact and fiction, in order to givevoices to Read More …
1st International Black Speculative Writers Symposium & Festival
3-day live symposium and festival at Goldsmiths University London from 2-4 Feb 2024. Sessions include discussions, workshops, readings, storytelling, networking, and an intro to reading ‘spec. fic.’
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature ⎻ Spring 2024 (Vol. 14)
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Spring 2024 (Vol. 14) publication. Sankofa welcomes articles that relate to one of the following areas: (1) “The African Scene,” which provides critical, scholarly articles about Read More …
JALA Special Issue: Engaging Emerging Trends in African Ecocriticism
In their introduction to the special edition of African Literature Today captioned “Environmental Transformations,” Cajetan Iheka and Stephanie Newell assert that “The geography of African ecocriticism has shifted considerably,” affirming the expanding scope of ecocriticism in Africa. From the foundational work of pioneer scholars Read More …
Politics of Criticism, Criticism of Politics ⎻ On Being an Academic and an Intellectual in the Postcolony
This conference, in honor of Ambroise Kom, is an invitation to reflect on the decolonization of methodological approaches, a sine qua non for restoring the dignity of African peoples and a prerequisite for the emergence of a new humanism in Africa. We propose engaging in a reflection inspired by his work, through a focus on what might be called a form of inopportune thought, which intersects with the reverberations of a reflection that, praising dissidence, calls for the duty of indignation.
14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference: “Reckoning”
This year’s theme is “Reckoning,” a term that evokes the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability may be linked to forms of measurement, methodology, and knowledge-constitution.
Comicalités Special Issue ⎻ Comics and Ecopolitics
This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential. Ecopolitics, and the intersections between environmentalism and other political struggles for justice, have taken on renewed urgency in an era now widely known as the Anthropocene, a term that has been contested for its universalism as ‘the Age of Man’ and its erasure of the ways in which imperialism and inequalities have marked this new geological era.
Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ “Artistic Epistemologies: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa
Full CFP description: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa: Journal of African Cinemas CFP The Journal of African Cinemas website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas#call-for-papers