Past conferences before 2012

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997

2011

12-14 December 2011
Tracking Development final conference, The Hague
Watch the conference summary.

2010

October 28, 2010 and October 29, 2010
NVAS Conference "Africa for Sale": Analysing and Theorizing Foreign Land Claims and Acquisitions

May 11, 2010 to May 15, 2010
Third Plenary Conference of Tracking Development

February 5, 2010 and February 6, 2010
Counselling and Cultural Change in Africa

January 20, 2010 to January 23, 2010
APAD Conference: Engaging anthropology in development and social change: practices, discourses and ethics / Engager l’anthropologie pour le développement et le changement social: pratiques, discours et éthique

January 14, 2010 and January 15, 2010
Author workshop for forthcoming publication "Health and healing in Africa; new arenas and emerging markets"

2009

November 25, 2009
Elections in Africa: Fair, Façade or Failure? A one-day conference on elections in Africa

October 16, 2009
NVAS-studiedag: Afrikastudies in Nederland en België

June 22, 2009 to June 26, 2009
Second Plenary Conference of Tracking Development

June 4, 2009 to June 7, 2009
AEGIS 3rd European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 3)

April 15, 2009 to April 17, 2009
Prolonging Life, Challenging Religion?: ARVs, New Moralities and the Politics of Social Justice (International Research Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa Symposium)

2008

October 24, 2008
Social movements in Africa: a comparative perspective

September 24, 2008 to September 27, 2008
Central African Research Themes II: Zambia/Northern Rhodesia in the 1950’s

September 18, 2008 and September 19, 2008
African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory?

August 19, 2008 to August 21, 2008
International Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM): Second Annual Conference

July 10, 2008 to July 12, 2008
New media and religious transformations in Africa

June 25, 2008 to June 27, 2008
First Plenary Conference of Tracking Development

April 28, 2008 and April 29, 2008
Religious engagements with AIDS in Africa

2007

October 13, 2006 to October 15, 2006
Call for Papers: International Conference "Youth and the Global South: Religion, Politics and the Making of Youth in Africa, Asia and the Middle East"

2006

September 6, 2006 to September 8, 2006
Bridging the North-South Divide in Scholarly Communication on Africa.
Threats and Opportunities in the Digital era (2nd Conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination, with CODESRIA)

2005

November 30, 2005 and December 1, 2005
The End of Poverty in Africa? Five Decades of Development and What Now?

October 28, 2005
NVAS Conference: Africa without Borders

2004

December 1, 2004
The Naturalness of Evil

November 26, 2004
NVAS-Studiedag: "Kunst in Afrika?".

September 16, 2004
Exploring the wealth of the African neighbourhood: The sustainability and creativity of urban life

May 27, 2004 and May 28, 2004
The concept of Agency in African history: a workshop on structure and agency in African history

April 1, 2004
Rwanda: Ten years after the genocide - Africa Today Seminar

March 23, 2004
The transcultural framework for the construction of African knowledges: Methodological, epistemological, and political considerations.

2003

June 16, 2003
Agency in Africa. A new debate, an old issue.

April 24, 2003 and April 25, 2003
Youth and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Africa

2002

June 13, 2002 and June 14, 2002
Performing Culture. The Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Expression in Contemporary Ghana

April 26, 2002 and April 27, 2002
Globalization and changing questions of ownership in culture and society

March 19, 2002 to March 22, 2002
Chieftaincy and the postcolonial state in West Africa

2001

November 9, 2001 to November 11, 2001
African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation of Major Cities in East and Southern Africa?

November 7, 2001
300 years Ghana - Holland

2000

February 6, 2000
Tourism in Africa

1999

December 10, 1999 to December 12, 1999
Islam and the Electoral Process

November 19, 1999 to November 21, 1999
Migrant Families and Human Capital Formation in Europe: Home Areas and Economic Vistas

October 15, 1999
Transformation Processes and Islam in Africa. An ASC/ISIM Conference

September 8, 1999 to September 10, 1999
Land Tenure Models For 21st Century Africa

1998

December 1, 1998
50th Anniversary ASC

September 28, 1998 to September 30, 1998
The 1997 elections and the democratisation process in Kenya: of frauds and failures

March 17, 1998
No News is Good News? Underexposure for the Sahel

March 6, 1998
Economy and Society in Tanzania

1997

November 7, 1997
Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa

May 22, 1997 and May 23, 1997
Identity in Africa

March 13, 1997 to March 15, 1997
Globalisation, Development and the Making of Consumers

February 18, 1997
De rol van de verkiezingen in Afrika met speciale aandacht voor verkiezingswaarneming