A network in excellence
AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.
European Conferences in African Studies 2022
- VAD Germany. Freiburg, 7-10 June 2022 https://nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2022/
- European Students Conference in African Studies (SESCAS). Switzerland, 23-25 June 2022 https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/second-european-students-conference-in-african-studies/
- ELIAS (Libraries and Archives in African Studies). Bordeaux, 24 June 2022
- ISAI Italy. Urbino Carlo Bo, 29 June – 1 July 2022 https://www.asaiafrica.org/conferenze-asai/
- ASA United Kingdom. (Liverpool + online), 31 Aug. – 4 Sept. 2022 https://www.asauk.net/diaspora-remittance-flows-restitution-culture-and-capital-asauk-biennial-conference-2022/
Please join us for a virtual book launch event for an essay collection on “African Futures”, edited by Clemens Greiner, Steven van Wolputte and Michael Bollig published by Brill as part of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies Series (AEGIS series). The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider capacities and potenials on the African continent. The texts are short, crisp and provocative, cover a wide variety of topics, and challenge rather than analyze. The book was compiled as a thematic conference volume of the ECAS9 "African Futures", which was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now take place in Cologne in 2023. This webinar will be moderated by Amanda Hammar (President of AEGIS, Copenhagen) and will introduce selected chapters covering a wide range of topics from health futures, forest crimes, Covid-19 to national parks and the futures of youth artists from Africa.
The AEGIS Series now holds 27 publications, from 2005 up to 2022. The titles of the books tell a story of their own: no. 1 (2005) was called Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention, and was edited by Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel and Anna-Maria Gentili. No 27 (2022), edited by Clemens Greiner, Steven Van Wolputte, and Michael Bollig, and has the optimistic title African Futures. 23 out of 27 books from the AEGIS series are available open access online, via https://www.aegis-eu.org/aegis-series-brill-open-access
Africa Yearbook volume 17 (Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2020) was just published. Editors of this volume were: Albert K. Awedoba, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler, and David Sebudubudu. The Africa Yearbook gives a comprehensive view on major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa. Volume 17 can be found at the website of Brill Publishers.
As we all know, nothing is as usual under COVID-19 conditions. Much that was formerly taken-for-granted in both larger and smaller ways has required reconsideration and prompted unexpected change. Inevitably, this is true for AEGIS as an association, as much as for individual member institutions and researchers.
Most significantly, in the present moment COVID-19 has presented us with a major challenge regarding the holding of our flagship biennial ECAS conference in 2021.
Under the theme African Futures, ECAS9 was due to be held in Cologne in early June 2021. A great deal of planning and organizing had already gone into the conference, and we were on the verge of announcing the call for panels. However, the realities of the present global pandemic presented insurmountable limitations to running the conference as planned.
Following very careful consideration and consultation, the AEGIS Board, in support of the organisers of the conference, took the difficult but necessary decision to postpone ECAS9. ECAS9 will now be held in Cologne as originally planned, on 31 May – 3 June 2023.
The following ECAS conference, ECAS10, will be held in Prague in June 2025.