The Call for Papers is now open for ECAS9 “African Futures” in Cologne, and will close on 9 January 2023!

ECAS2023 is intended as a fully face-to-face conference. Please read the instructions on how to propose a paper on the Call for Papers page and then proceed to submit your contribution. All contributions must be submitted via the links on panel pages.

The calls will close on 9 January 2023, at 23:59 GMT

University of Cologne “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. Read the full theme and then browse the accepted panels.

Open Access online publication: “African Futures”
The project started as part of the preparations for the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), jointly organized by the University of Cologne’s Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and the Catholic University of Leuven’s Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA), and due to be held in Cologne in June 2021 but the pandemic development to a postponement to Whitsun week 2023 (31 May . 3 June 2023). See the Brill website.