23rd Annual Graduate Conference in African Studies

Globalization, Permeation, and Exchange: Africa and the New World Order Boston University’s Graduate Student Conference in African Studies will be celebrating its 23rd consecutive event. This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from a variety of disciplines and focusing on global perspectives. The 2015 conference will be held at Boston University, March 27-­‐28th. The application deadline will be February 1, 2015. We invite rigorous graduate student papers that examine Africa’s past, present and future, exhibit methodological innovation, and/or yield fresh interpretative insights. Participation is commonly drawn from across the academic spectrum: Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Economics, Ecology and Environment, Geography, Global Health, History, International Relations, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Musicology, Policy, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.