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.
In light of the corona virus crisis, the AEGIS Board provides an update on the status of planned events: both the most imminent and those scheduled for somewhat later in the year.
Message by AEGIS-EU President Amanda Hammar, including an update about events (April 6 2020)
Postponement of ECAS9 from June 2021 to June 2023 (19 October 2020)
Upcoming AEGIS activities 2020 - 2021 (19 October 2020)
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.