Upcoming conferences
This page intends to list upcoming conferences on African languages. The information will not be archived after the respective conference dates. A continually updated list of linguistics conferences can be found at the LinguistList website.
Send updates and corrections to Jouni Maho.
May 6-7, 2008
Comparative Arabic Linguistics
Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
Deadline for submissions: February 30, 2008
LinguistList announcement
May 14-17, 2008
Frontiers and Passages
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, & Basel, Switzerland
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2008
www.unibas-zasb.ch/english/events/2007/02/vad_tagung_e.php
May 22-24, 2008
11th Conference of Africanists
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2007
H-Net announcement
June 9, 2008
Writing African Histories Conference
Department of History, University of Sheffield, The UK
Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2008
H-Net announcement
June 10, 2008
On the Brink? Endangered Archives and Endangered Languages in Africa
British Library Conference Centre, London, The UK
Deadline for registrations: June 6, 2008
www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/conference.htm
June 27-28, 2008
Universités Francophones et Diversité Linguistique (UFDL8)
Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
Deadline for submissions: July 30, 2007
LinguistList announcement
June 30 - July 3, 2008
13th International AFRILEX Conference
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2008
afrilex.africanlanguages.com/conf2008call01.htm
July 7-9, 2008
Conference of the Historical Association of South Africa
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2008
H-Net announcement
July 28 - August 3, 2008
27th West African Languages Conference
University of Education, Winneba Campus, Ghana
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2008
walc2008winneba@yahoo.com (email contact)
August 11-15, 2008
Special session of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6)
Departamento de Lingüística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2007
www.fflch.usp.br/dl/wocal6special/callforpapers.htm
August 25-27, 2008
38th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
State University of Leiden, Netherlands
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2008
www.tca.leidenuniv.nl
August 28-31, 2008
8th AIDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe) Conference
Colchester, Essex, The UK
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2008
www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/AIDA/home.shtm
August 31 - September 3, 2008
Anthropology in Southern Africa, and beyond
University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2008
H-Net announcement
September 11-13, 2008
8th International Afro-Asiatic Congress
Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2008
sbaldi@ino.it (email contact: Sergio Baldi)
September 15-17, 2008
2nd International Conference on Mande Languages
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St Petersburg, Russia
Deadline for submissions: March 31 (panels), April 30 (papers), 2008
LinguistList announcement
October 2-5, 2008
Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics
Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Leipzig, Germany
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2008
www.rz.uni-leipzig.de/~egyptol/index.htm
October 2-8, 2008
Perspectives on African Decolonization
Center for International Studies, Ohio University at Athens, USA
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008
www.ohio.edu/african/conferences.cfm
October 9-12, 2008
Religion & Religious Identities in Africa and the African Diaspora
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2008
H-Net announcement
October 17-19, 2008
8th Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa
Bishop Booth Conference Center, Burlington VT, USA
Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2008
H-Net announcement
October 20 - November 2, 2008
Adventure! Danger! Romance! (2008 Film & History Conference)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
October 23-25, 2008
Omotic Modality Markers and Linguistic Typology
Leiden University, Netherlands
Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2008
LinguistList announcement
September 26-27, 2008
2nd Annual Africanist Graduate Student Conference
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2008
africa.msu.edu/gradconference
November 13-16, 2008
51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago IL, The US
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2008
www.africanstudies.org
December 11-13, 2008
The Native Speaker and the Mother Tongue
Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline for registrations: July 31, 2008
LinguistList announcement
January 2-5, 2009
123rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
New York City
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2008
www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm
March 28-30, 2009
2009 Africa Conference
University of Texas at Austin, The US
Deadline for registrations: November 1, 2008
www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
August 17-21, 2009
6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6)
University of Cologne, Germany
Deadline for submissions: TBA
www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/wocal/index.shtml