The African Studies Association UK is planning its 2012 ASAUK biennial conference

21 février 2012 admin Announcement

The African Studies Association UK is planning its 2012 ASAUK biennial conference. The conference will be held in Leeds in 2012 and will run from 2pm on Thursday Sept 6th to 1pm on Saturday 8th September 2012.

We are grateful to the below for organising a series of panels running through the conference.

• Deborah Johnston (SOAS) and Morten Jerven (Simon Fraser University) on the data base for African economic development.
• Miles Larmer (Sheffield) Katrien Pype (MIT) Reuben Loffman (Keele) Congo research network stream
• Miles Larmer (Sheffield) The Yorkshire African Studies Network
• Gabrielle Lynch (Warwick) Transitional Justice in Africa
• Lizelle Bisschoff (Edinburgh) Contemporary African cinema: New innovations in genres, themes, production and distribution
• Jane Plastow (Leeds) Culture
• Stephanie Newell (Sussex) and Ranka Primorac (Southampton) Literature
• Emma Hunter (Cambridge) Citizenship
• Lotte Hughes (Open) and Clara Arokiasamy (KALA) Heritage
• Frances Cleaver (Bradford) Is ‘good’ water governance compatible with water equity in Africa?
• Chris Paterson (Leeds) Media and communications

We are also very pleased to have two panels on North Africa submitted by George Joffe (Cambridge) and Martin Evans (Portsmouth).

We are encouraging journals, centres, networks and individuals to offer papers for the conference. At this stage we are asking interested parties to submit papers into the conferences online abstract submission website. The deadline for paper submissions is the 27th of April 2012.

A full list of panels proposed for the conference is available on the ASAUK website (see link below).

http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk12.shtml

To submit a paper for the ASAUK Conference you need to register via the link below. Once you have registered you can then log into the online submission system and submit your paper.

Once you have registered on the conference website you will need to log in click on « Click here to make a new submission » and you will be presented with a list of the panels currently proposed for the ASAUK Conference. Please select the panel into which you wish to submit your paper and click next to proceed. Papers can also be submitted independent of any of the panels currently proposed, to do this you should select the not for a symposium option.

All papers require abstracts of no more than 250 words.

It is worth noting that you can use your one email and password to propose several papers. Should you wish to amend your personal or paper details you can this by logging into the system at any time up until the close of submissions.

https://asauk.conference-services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=2615&language=en-uk

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