ASAUK Biennial Conference 2010
September 1619, 2010, University of Oxford
The ASAUK Biennial conference will be held in Oxford in 2010, at St Antony’s College and other venues. The conference will run from 2pm on Thursday Sept 16th to 1pm on Sunday 19th September.
ASAUK are not attempting to give the conference a single theme. However, the organisers are encouraging journals, Centres, networks and individuals to offer panels, or series of panels, on particular topics so that there can be sequential debate through the conference. The organisers hope in this way to attract linked papers that will facilitate discussion and which may form the basis for a variety of conference publications.
To submit a paper or panel for the conference please follow the link below. The deadline for paper and panel abstracts is 30 April 2010.
If you would like to suggest a series of panels or theme, contact David Kerr: d.kerr(AT)bham.ac.uk.
Submit an abstract or register here.
ASAUK Distinguished Africanist Award
The Distinguished Africanist Award was inaugurated by the ASAUK as a way of paying tribute to people who have made exceptional contributions to the field of African studies, i.e. scholars who have in one way or another expanded and disseminated knowledge of Africa, and interest in Africa. The award is not confined to academics. It is intended for people who have contributed largely to African Studies in the UK, or who have strengthened links between African Studies here and in Africa itself. Read more...
Please send nominations to David Kerr, the ASAUK Research Administrator, by the 21st of May 2010 at the latest, to enable the Council to make the selection at the May Council meeting.
Audrey Richards prize for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies
The Audrey Richards Prize is awarded biennially for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies which has been successfully examined in a United Kingdom institute of higher education during the two calendar years immediately preceding the 16. to 19. September 2010 ASAUK Conference.
The 2009 prize will be for theses examined between 1. January 2008 and 31. December 2009. Nominations must be made by 31. March 2010. Read more...
ASAUK will support travel within the UK for up to 15 participants. Read more...
The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom was founded in 1963 and is the national subject association for Africanists within the academic community. ASAUK is a non-profit organisation which has over 900 members drawn from Africanist scholars, students and other experts. Through conferences, workshops, a newsletter and a number of prizes and awards, the African Studies Association supports and provides information to the Africanist community. ASAUK works in close cooperation with the Royal African Society (RAS), and members receive the influential quarterly journal African Affairs. In 2006 ASAUK was recognised as a Learned Society by the British Academy.
Mission
The mission of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom is to advance African Studies and to facilitate the interchange of information, research and ideas in this field and the coordination of activities by and between persons and institutions concerned with the study of Africa.
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