ASAA2025 Call for Submissions
ASAA2025: 6th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa
Uni-CV – Praia – Cabo Verde,
24–27 September 2025
Deadline: March 15, 2025
We are pleased to announce the launch of the call for panel proposals for the 6th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa. ASAA2025 is hosted by the University of Cabo Verde (Uni-CV), Praia in Cabo Verde, and scheduled for September 24-27, 2025. The conference will be held in-person on the campus of Uni-CV. The ASAA biennial conference is the largest gathering of African scholars in the world.
The ASAA2025 Organizing Committee invites abstract, panel, roundtable, film, performance, art and pre-conference workshop proposals to be submitted online by March 15, 2025. Please note that submissions will only be accepted through the ASAA2025 online Proposal Submission interface.
The Theme for ASAA2025 is “African Responses to Global Vulnerabilities: Building Hope for the Future”. Co-hosted by Uni-CV, the conference will aim to explore how forms and articulations of African agency have shaped our collective histories, cohabitation, dignity, knowledge, sovereignty, violence, survival, and hopes for imaginaries of better futures. We are particularly interested in unpacking intersections between the past, the present, and the future in tackling challenges of vulnerabilities, enunciations of resilience, and expectations of resolution.
ASAA2025’s conference is organized in Cesaria Evora’s home country, commemorating Cabo Verde’s 50th anniversary of independence and the 100th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral.
As always, we envision the conference as a festival of ideas, exchanges, and encounters and a space for scholarly experimentation. Scholars, activists, architects, artists, performers, filmmakers and policymakers across different generations, disciplines, and sub-fields are invited to propose submissions on the conference theme.
Selected outputs will be published in our new academic journal, Bokutani.
Co-hosted by Uni-CV, ASAA2025 will offer an interdisciplinary space to foster conversations between disciplines – social sciences and humanities (SSH) and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) – focusing on the production of new knowledges about global vulnerabilities from and/or through Africa.
ASAA2025 will explore these issues through a diverse set of engaging and provocative formats.