2021 Conference Theme: Pondering African Futures
May 13-14, 2021
The African Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh is hosting a virtual conference to ponder African futures in the context of current challenges and to think about innovative strategies for moving forward with the continent’s development agenda. This is our 3rd annual conference and we are pleased to invite you to attend and/or present.
More about the Annual Conference
The Critical Research on Africa Conference creates a space for the sharing of ideas and broader intellectual engagement for Africanist faculty, researchers, and graduate students from across the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes regions. Seeing the need for opportunities for scholarly development and networking among educators and researchers in African Studies outside of the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, we invite Africanists from universities, community colleges, HBCUs, and other academic institutions in the neighboring states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, and New York to participate in the conference. The larger goal is to stimulate a regional intellectual community for Africanist scholars and researchers across a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and institutions. Papers aligned with the conference theme or papers on other themes are all welcome. Co-sponsors for this conference also include the Department of Africana Studies, the U.S. Department of Education, and the University Center for International Studies.