Past Conferences

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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

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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