20th Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contesting Boundaries:

Emerging Scholarship on Africa

Boston University’s Graduate Student Conference in African Studies is pleased to mark its 20th anniversary.  This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from an array of disciplines.

The 2012 conference will be held at Boston University, March 30-31.  The application deadline is February 1, 2012.

We invite rigorous graduate student papers that examine Africa’s past, present and future, exhibit methodological innovation or yield fresh interpretative insights.

Participation is commonly drawn from across the academic spectrum: Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Economics, Ecology and Environment, Geography, Global Health, History, International Relations, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Musicology, Policy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.

For twenty years, masters and doctoral students from across North America have made this conference a valuable opportunity to expand peer-to-peer academic networks and present ongoing research.

A $25 conference fee is payable upon on-site registration on March 30th.