Call for panels

African Futures, the 9th European Conference on African Studies is just around the corner and we are thrilled to open the Call for Panels. The Call for Panels has been extended to Tuesday 11 October 2022. Please be mindful that no further extensions will be granted after this date. The Call for Papers will follow, opening on Monday 31 October and closing on Monday 12 December 2022.

As Europe’s largest and most international conference with an African focus, ECAS 9 will be held as a face-to-face event from May 31 to June 3, 2023 in Cologne, Germany.

ECAS 2023 is complemented by a broad range of cultural events all around the City of Cologne.

Requirements for panel proposal

• Panel proposals should be in adherence to the conference theme.
• Panels should have two co-convenors (panel organisers) from different institutions.
• At least one of the convenors should attend face-to-face.
• At least one of the convenors must have a PhD degree.
• Each participant is permitted to convene once, present a paper once, be a discussant once, be a chair once. (N.B. Roundtable participants are considered discussants.) Hence a convenor may opt to present in their own panel or someone else's (or not at all).
• AEGIS CRG panels should be submitted by respective network convenors. The network name must be appended to the title of the proposed panel [in square brackets].
• Panel submissions from colleagues from Africa or from the African and Afropean diaspora are specifically encouraged.
• All attendants, including panel convenors, paper presenters, discussants, chairs, and listeners are required to register and pay to attend in advance. Please see the likely registration fees here. Payment is mandatory only after acceptance of your proposal.

The process

• All proposals must be made via the online form.
• Please include the panel title, a short description (max. 300 characters) and an abstract (max. 250 words).
• If already known, please add your chair and discussants.
• On submission of the proposal, the proposing convenor will receive a confirmation emails; other convenors, chairs and discussants will receive emails notifying them of the proposal, requiring them to log in on the website (may require account creation) to confirm their role in the panel. You may wish to alert them to this requirement, in case it goes to spam or they suspect the email is phishing.
• Each panel proposal must be tagged with one disciplinary stream (marked with x in the list below) and one thematic stream (marked with y in the list below), as this helps to organize reviewing and scheduling.

Disciplinary streams

• Anthropology (x)
• Arts and Culture (x)
• Economy and Development (x)
• Environment and Geography (x)
• Health (x)
• History (x)
• Language and Literature (x)
• Law (x)
• Politics and International Relations (x)
• Religion (x)
• Sociology (x)
• Urban Studies (x)

Thematic streams

• Violence and Conflict Resolution (y)
• Gender, Sexuality & Intersectionality (y)
• Conservation & Land Governance (y)
• Decoloniality & Knowledge Production (y)
• Covid (y)
• Disaster & Adversity (environmental & health crisis) (y)
• Climate Change (y)
• Inequality (y)
• Infrastructure (y)
• Futures (y)

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Panels for ECAS 2023 will be announced by October 31, 2022.

Any queries about the above/process, email admin(at)ecasconference.org.