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News from AEGIS

From the AEGIS President

AEGIS’s flagship biennial event – the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) – is soon taking place in Prague (25-28 June), organized by the Czech Association of African Studies (CAAS). The programme provides a richness of possibilities for engaging with a diversity of innovative academic and creative people and ideas related to some of the most important Africa/n-centred questions and visions of our day. Meanwhile AEGIS continues to grow with several new members recently joining and new thematic Collaborative Research Groups being established. An additional meaningful achievement is our signing of The Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaboration. This and so much more makes me proud to have led AEGIS as President for the past six years, but which I will confidently hand over during ECAS.

Amanda Hammar
Copenhagen, 20 June 2025

Events

CRG Call for Papers & New AEGIS-Brill Publishes New Volumes

Call for Papers: 7th Biannual CRG African History Conference

The 7th Biannual Conference of the CRG African History will be held in Ghent on 18–19 June 2026. The Call for Papers, Round Tables, and nominations for the Exciting Lecture in African History is open until 15 October 2025. Click here for more information (pdf).

Two New AEGIS-Brill Series publications

Volumes 35 and 36 of the AEGIS-Brill series explore the political use of contested histories in Zimbabwe (see more: web) and the diverse ways trust shapes Africa’s global connections (see more: web), offering rich ethnographic and critical insights into memory, power, and transnational encounters.

Opportunities

Apply Now: Summer School of African Politics at ISCTE – Lisbon

Join the School in African Politics at ISCTE – Lisbon from 30 June to 2 July 2025 for an intensive, multidisciplinary summer course on political research and analysis in Africa. Open to postgraduate students and professionals. Application deadline: 25 June 2025.
Click here for more information (web).

In the Spotlight: Czech Contributions to African Studies

This month, In the Spotlight features two Czech AEGIS member institutions, with the Czech Association for African Studies (CAAS) playing the central role in organising the upcoming ECAS Conferences, which will take place in Prague from 25–28 June. These two member institutions are CAAS in Hradec Králové and the Center of African Studies (CAS) in Pilsen. In addition to highlighting the institutions themselves, we are pleased to introduce one special project and one scholar from each. Read more here