The European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) is the proud flagship event of AEGIS, the European African Studies Association.  With the exception of a break at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2021, ECAS has been running consistently every two years for the past twenty years, each time hosted by one of the member institutions of AEGIS.  We are delighted that in 2025, ECAS is being hosted in the magnificent city of Prague by the dynamic Czech Association for African Studies (CAAS).

24 June 2025, Náprstek Museum, Prague

The fascination with faraway places as well as colonial projects led to a collecting rush
among European scientists in the late 19th and early 20th century, resulting in numerous collections in museums and other scientific institutions. For several decades…