ECAS2027: African Prisms

Anth001

2 paper proposals Propose

Climate Change and Affect amongst Mobile African Populations

Anth002

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Multifunctional Rangelands in Africa: Emerging Relations, Values and Governance

Anth003

1 paper proposal Propose

African Artistic Mobilities: Recovering Histories, Legacies and Decolonial Knowledge

Anth004

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Non-physical violence in African societies

Anth005

2 paper proposals Propose

African perspectives on wealth: prisms of property, inheritance and redistribution (sponsored by the IAI/AFRICA)

Anth006

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Mineral Prisms: Millennial Extractivist Horizons in Contemporary Africa — Faith, Power, Transitions

Anth007

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Sites of Absence: Flourishing in Emigrant Africa

Anth009

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Masculinities and Care in Africa

Anth010

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Petty capitalism and the self-organised economy: commodity trades as a prism for the study of African cities

Anth011

1 paper proposal Propose

A hundred years of the International African Institute and its journal AFRICA: reflections on the past, present and future anthropology of Africa

Anth012

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Coloniality without colonies: Eastern Europe through African prisms, Africa through Eastern European prisms

Anth013

1 paper proposal Propose

Gardens as prisms

Anth014

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Mega-Developments as Prismatic Sites of Infrastructural Experimentation in and across African Cities

Anth015

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Coping with multiple crises: reconfiguring livelihoods and (im)mobility in the Sahel and beyond

Anth016

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Un/Making the Periphery: On the Margins and Connections of Coastal Southern Tanzania

Anth017

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The Power to Define What is Right: Competing Moral Economies and Environmental Politics in Africa

Anth018

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Who counts as a knower? Knowledge-making and authority in African conservation encounters

Anth019

1 paper proposal Propose

Researching under Constraint: Navigating research method and practice in difficult research environments

Anth020

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Stigmatizing Pastoralists: Narratives, Frames and Representations through African Prisms

Anth021

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In and across the Sahara: entangled histories and contemporary social and political reconfigurations in a multiplex world

Anth022

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Everyone a counsellor? Everyday Practices of Healing and Repair in Muslim lifeworlds in Africa

Anth023

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Contested Grounds: Soil Interventions and Ecological Politics in Africa

Anth024

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Moral Investments in Land and Agriculture: Wealth, Belonging, and Agrarian Futures in Africa

Anth025

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Sensing the Sea: Coastal Communities and Changing Marine Environments in Africa

Anth026

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Refracted Hierarchies: Patronage, Clientelism and the Politics of Obligation in Africa

Anth027

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Shifting Ungulate Prisms: Pastoral Practices, Industrial Livestock Production, and the Making of African Landscapes

Anth028

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Material claims, moral claims: Who owns the remains of interventions?

Anth029

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Carrying on: making continuity amidst modernity’s afterlives

Anth030

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Return to the land: accelerated agricultural change and rural anthropology

Anth031

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Welfare futures in Africa: exploring new configurations and limitations of solidarity and redistribution.

Anth033

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Recent Changes in International Aid through the prism of Community-led responses in Sub-Saharan Africa. [Panel supported by the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development]

Anth034

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The Multiplicity of the "Social" in the Somali Borderlands: Methods, Materialities, and More-than-Human Histories [CRG ABORNE]

Arts001

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Oceanic Elsewheres: Refracting African memory across the Indian Ocean and Black Mediterranean.

Arts002

1 paper proposal Propose

Revisiting the Visual Politics of Violence: Obscurity and Extraction in Africa

Arts003

1 paper proposal Propose

African Digital Humour and Platform Cultures

Arts004

2 paper proposals Propose

Counter Archives in African Studies – Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (panel of the European Librarians in African Studies (ELIAS))

Arts005

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Regimes of Silence: Boundaries of Saying and Showing in African Performance

Arts006

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Colonial knowledge models and the African ‘Work’: a critical metadata approach to Film, Literature, and Music in Anglophone and Francophone Africa

Arts007

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Pentecostal Cultural Forms: Creativity, Infrastructure, and Circulation

Arts008

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Sites of Colonial Power, Resistance, and Diaspora: Africa in Lisbon and European Cities

Arts009

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Decolonising Iberian Museums? African Collections and Contested Narratives in Spain and Portugal

Arts010

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Back in images, back to Africa: an audiovisual prism on return and restitution

Arts011

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African experimental music at the intersection of traditions and technology

Arts012

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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Tracing the Dispersal of African Stories

Digi001

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Health Datafication in Africa: Infrastructures, Data Politics, and Everyday Practice

Digi002

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Speaking Digital Africa: Pragmatics, Language, and Community in African Social Media Discourse

Digi003

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Spectra of Power: The Political Economy of Telecommunications Companies in Africa

Digi004

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Platforms and Payments: New Configurations of Labor and Finance in African Cities

Digi005

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Twin Transitions, Uneven Terrain: Digital and Green Dimensions of Contemporary African Development [CRG Digital Africa]

Digi006

4 paper proposals Propose

Cultivating Digital Sanctuaries: Applying Eco-Ethics to Sub-Saharan Africa’s Digital Realms

Digi007

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African Music through Digital Prisms: Technology, Visibility and Representation

Digi008

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Machines of prosperity and control: the political uses of the discourse of AI in Africa

Digi009

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Image and Infrastructure

Digi010

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What Can We Learn from the Digitalisation Journeys of African Cities?

Digi011

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Digital Refractions: Mimicry, Technological Affordances, and the Politics of Performing Others in African Digital Culture

Digi012

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Refracting World-Making Practices in African Studies through Multimodal Publication Projects

Digi013

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African Prisms on Emerging Technologies: Understanding the Conflictive Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Econ001

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New coping strategies for improved resilience in African pastoralism.

Econ002

1 paper proposal Propose

The land rush, its legacies and futures, through an African prism.

Econ003

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Urban Economic Futures In Africa: Governance, Informality and Trust

Econ004

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Food Loss, Resource Governance and Sustainable Food Systems in Africa: Policies, Incentives and Nexus Trade-offs

Econ005

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Borders and the AfCFTA Implementation Conundrum

Econ006

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AfCFTA and African Economic Development

Econ007

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Continuities and Disruptions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Era of Critical Minerals

Econ008

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Refracting Labour Futures: Gender, Youth and Work Transitions in Central Africa

Econ009

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Who Pays for Africa’s Future? Fiscal Sovereignty, Digital Economies and Financing Africa’s Transformation

Econ010

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Beyond Failure: Who Makes Incomplete Development Work in Africa?

Econ011

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Guilds, Fraternities and Beyond: Pluralising Forms of Social, Political and Economic Organisation in Contemporary Africa

Econ012

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The Competing Prisms of Finance in Africa: Domestic Revenue Mobilisation and Global Financial Integration

Econ013

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Refracting the Global Just Transition: Critical Minerals through African Prisms

Econ014

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African prisms on land and agriculture – beyond the resource lens

Econ015

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Youth, Land Pressures, and Alternative Economies: Prisms of Agrarian Restructuring in Africa

Econ016

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Green transition investments: Exploring the effects on local communities and government

Econ017

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Refracting fiscal realities: Rethinking institutions, knowledge, and everyday economic life in Africa

Econ018

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African transition minerals amidst geopolitical contestation: blockages and openings

Econ020

1 paper proposal Propose

Mutual Interests: African Forms of Support and Enterprise

Econ021

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Beyond the Binary Prisms of Developmental State and Neoliberalism: critical insights on change and continuity in the Ethiopian political economy.

Econ022

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Accumulation and economies on the margins of the state in Africa

Econ023

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Agriculture and Climate Change through African Prisms: Perceptions and Practices of Smallholder Farmers

Envi001

1 paper proposal Propose

Indigenous Knowledges and Discourses of Environmental Change in and about Africa

Envi002

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Beyond Energy Transition: African Ecologies,Enviromental Justice and the Politics of Sustainability

Envi003

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Landscape as a Meeting Ground? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Dynamics in Africa.

Envi004

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Porous Borders, Sealed Narratives: An African Prism on Transboundary Commodity Governance

Envi005

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Africa in Dialogue: Intersecting Ecology, Climate Futures, and Indigenous Epistemologies

Envi006

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Africa’s green industrial futures: Politics, frictions, resilience

Envi007

3 paper proposals Propose

Gender as a Prism: Rethinking Climate, Conflict and Security in Africa

Envi008

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One Health and Human Interconnectedness in African Livestock Systems: Sustainability, Technology, Culture and Wellbeing

Envi009

1 paper proposal Propose

Elite Constellations: Competition, Alliances and Power in Nature Conservation

Envi010

1 paper proposal Propose

Contested Seas: Power, Politics and Africa’s Maritime Worlds

Envi011

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Spirituality, Extraction and Varieties of Environmentalism in the African Pluriverse

Envi012

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African Kaleidoscopic Futures

Envi013

1 paper proposal Propose

Rethinking biodiversity loss and extinctions through African prisms

Envi014

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Through the prism(s) of road safety: how can African Studies contribute to and learn from this neglected field?

Envi016

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Reimagining Environmental Justice in Africa: Knowledge, Technology and Power Across Scales

Envi017

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Underground Remains: Buried Histories and the Afterlives of Interventions

Envi018

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Urban Informality, Institutions, and Climate (Im)mobility in African Cities

Gend001

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Queer Prisms: Refracting Being, Belonging and Futures in Africa

Gend002

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Queer Politics and LGBTQI+ Activism in Africa

Gend003

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Of Open Enclosures and Infinite Boundaries: Queer, Gendered and Environmental Justice in West Africa

Gend004

1 paper proposal Propose

African Feminist Urbanism: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of City Life

Gend005

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Why African Feminist and Queer Perspectives Matter?

Gend006

2 paper proposals Propose

Prisms of power: Women in Africa, Past and Present

Gend007

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Epistemologies of gender: Investigating matrifocality in African social life

Gend008

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What Gets Measured Does Not Necessarily Get Done: The Gendered Politics of Measurement Indicators

Gend010

1 paper proposal Propose

Intersectionality, conflict, sexuality and public health in africa: colonial legacies, postcolonial transformations and social resilience

Gend011

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Gendered Electoral Violence in Africa

Heal001

1 paper proposal Propose

Refracting Climate and Health Through African Emergencies: Living with Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, and Displacement

Heal002

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Beyond Biomedicine: African Healing Knowledge, Medical Pluralism, and the Future of Health Systems.

Heal003

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The Hearth and the Hospital: Negotiating Traditional Postpartum Care in African Communities.

Heal004

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One Health as an African prism

Heal005

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Law and the Future of Healthcare in Africa: Emerging Technologies, Human Rights, Ethics and Legal Responsibility

Heal006

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Navigating Health in Africa: Medical Pluralism, Global Health and Access to Care

Heal007

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Beyond the Clinic: Indigenous Knowledge, Health Information and Everyday Health Practices in Africa

Heal008

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Whose Data, Whose Health? Governing AI and Digital Health in Africa

Hist001

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Transimperial encounters

Hist002

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Accounting for Colonial Extraction: Evidence, Responsibility and Redress in Africa

Hist003

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What is African History?

Hist004

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Resource Frontiers, Local Authority and Everyday Sovereignty in Africa

Hist005

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Brazil in Africa, Africa in Brazil: South-South Cooperation between Ideals and Realities

Hist006

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From Scopophobia to Digital Restitution: Colonial Photography and Heritage Futures in Namibia and South Africa

Hist007

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Colonial Concentrationary Repertoires Through African Prisms: Counterinsurgency-Driven Incarceration, Deportation, and Their Afterlives

Hist008

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Representing (Post)Colonial Violence

Hist009

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What does the Indian Ocean mean for African studies? [CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean]

Hist010

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Intellectual Solidarities Against Apartheid: Transnational Networks, Circulations and Struggles

Hist011

1 paper proposal Propose

The Politics of Death

Hist012

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Refracting Film Archives: African Audiovisual Heritage and the Politics of the Lens

Hist013

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Who controls the conditions and benefits of land and labor? Historicizing access and transformation in Africa

Hist014

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African Waterscapes: Coastal Societies between Rivers, Lagoons and the Sea in West Africa.

Hist015

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Trade Dollars and Money Units: Accounting in Africa before and beyond Colonial Currencies, c. 1800–1920

Hist016

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Local ethics in West Africa and beyond: cross-disciplinary approaches

Hist017

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Slavery, freedom and law in Africa

Hist018

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Women at Work: Writing New Histories of African Labour

Hist019

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Grand Investments, Hidden Realities: Infrastructures, Foreign Investment and Social Reproduction in Africa, Past and Present

Hist020

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The trajectory of cultural figures versus power projects on the paths to Independence

Hist021

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After the Scheme: Failure and Afterlife of Range Development in Pastoral Africa

Hist022

1 paper proposal Propose

Scientific knowledge through the prism: archives, museums and data in Africa

Hist023

1 paper proposal Propose

Southern African Liberation Struggle Prisms

Hist024

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Urban Extractivism in Africa: Social Histories of the Environment

Hist025

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Consenting to Tax? Meaning, Legitimacy, and Compliance with Levies in Africa

Hist026

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Contested Healthcare: Actors, Negotiations, and Medical Authority in Modern Africa

Hist027

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Marriage after Slavery: Gender, Dependency and Freedom in Twentieth-Century Africa

Hist028

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African Women Shaping the World. Activism, Networks and Connections (1920-1975)

Hist030

1 paper proposal Propose

Rethinking Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa through a Transimperial Prism

Hist031

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Unspoken heritage: How minorities shaped the environment and the State

Hist032

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(Post)Colonial Education(s): Concepts, Actors, and Circuits in Twentieth-Century Africa

Hist033

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Beyond Sofala: Trade and Politics on Medieval Africa’s Furthest Shore

Hist035

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Palestine Through African Prisms: Tracing the Historical Roots of a Global Solidarity Movement

Hist036

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Prismatic Borders: Boundary-Making in Precolonial Africa [CRG-ABORNE]

Hist037

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Rethinking Corporate Power: Responsibility, Local Realities, Agency, and Transformation in Africa from 1900 to the Present

Hist039

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The Politics of Colonial and Post-Colonial Confinement in Africa and Beyond

Hist040

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Histories and Cultures of Measurement and Counting in Africa

Hist041

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Decolonization and the Audio-Visual archive

Know001

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Technologies of care and control: welfare and social protection in the prism of African post/colonial statistical trajectories

Know002

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Beyond the Prism: Who Controls Africa’s Digital Memory? Archives, Algorithms and the Politics of Knowledge

Know003

3 paper proposals Propose

Offshore Dissent and the (Post)Colonial Archive

Know004

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Refracting Knowledge: Toward Equitable Publishing Infrastructures in African Studies

Know005

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African universities and the future of knowledge making

Know006

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Leadership and Innovation in African Schools: Rethinking Educational Change from the Ground Up

Know007

1 paper proposal Propose

Translating African Worlds: Multilingualism, Knowledge-Making and Epistemic Justice in Education

Know009

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Re:membering Practices in Africa and Beyond: Transoceanic Prisms

Know010

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Towards epistemic justice: Urban community knowledge through African Prisms

Know011

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Atmospheres in African Studies

Know012

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Women’s authorship as praxis: language, agency, and the post-colonial nation in southern africa

Know013

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Wisdom out of the margins – singularities amongst the data

Know015

1 paper proposal Propose

Ethics in Research Practices Through the Prism of Nigerian Studies

Know016

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Beyond Forced Labour: Knowledge Production, Gender, and the Question of Reparations

Know017

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Making Knowledge

Know018

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Teaching on the Frontier: Pedagogical Innovation in African Universities

Know019

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Reflexivity in African Studies: current status and prospects

Know021

1 paper proposal Propose

African scholars and the decolonization of knowledge production in higher education: refracting knowledge through African perspectives.

Know022

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Towards creative methodologies: Graphical methods and sound-based approaches in conducting social science research.

Know023

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Semantic contest in Ethiopia’s civil war

Know024

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Regional and National Traditions of Knowledge Production and International Collaboration in African Studies

Know025

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Food circulations between disciplines, spaces and social contexts.

Know026

1 paper proposal Propose

Critical African Diaspora Studies

Know028

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Seeing Africa through Data: Statistical Models, Missing Voices and Policy Decisions

Know030

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Documenting loss and listening to agency: New methodological prisms for researching climate-related (im)mobilities [CRG AMMODI]

Know032

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The Coloniality of Power and the Coloniality of Knowledge: Western Sahara and Beyond

Lang001

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Solidarity and Gender in African Literature across Time [CRG African Literatures]

Lang002

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Reading African Oral Literature for Environment

Lang003

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Refracting Orality: African Folklore, Artificial Intelligence and the Politics of Knowledge in a Changing World

Lang004

3 paper proposals Propose

Refracting African Realities: Urban Spaces, Ambiguity, and Genre-Bending in Contemporary African Noir Fiction

Lang005

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Through the prism of language: Gendered practices of belonging and advocacy

Lang006

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Critical Animal Studies and African Literatures: More-than-human prisms? [CRG African Literatures]

Lang007

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Negotiating Memory: Black Bodies, Violence, and African Imaginaries of Sahelian and Trans-Indian Ocean Slaveries

Lang008

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What Rap and Slam Do to the African Novel / Ce que le rap et le slam font au roman africain [CRG African Literatures]

Lang009

1 paper proposal Propose

Electronic Literatures, Cyber-Dialectics, and the Re-Imagining of African Narrative Spaces

Lang010

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Voices under Fire: Rethinking Language Documentation and Revitalization in Conflict-Affected Africa

Lang012

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The African Multilingual Prism, and the Future of African Languages

Law001

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African Courts, Politics and Rights: Audacity, Restraint and Backlash in Human Rights Adjudication

Law002

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Everyday justice at the margins of African states

Law003

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Building the prism of necro-penality

Law004

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Contested Indigeneity within environmental governance in Africa: re-enclosure or politics of emancipation?

Mig001

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From Dhows to Diaspora: Somalia and the Indian Ocean across Centuries This panel takes Somalia and the Horn of Africa as a prism through which to read the layered histories of the Indian Ocean world.

Mig002

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Labour, Legacy and Livelihoods: The Political, Economic and Cultural Dynamics of African Migration Across History

Mig003

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Carceral Geographies: Space, Incarceration, and the African Experience

Mig004

1 paper proposal Propose

African Prisms of Mobility: Imaginaries, Aspirations, and the Making of Movement

Mig005

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Interventionist Humanities and the Politics of Mobility in Africa

Mig006

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Algorithmic Borders and the Digital Gaze: Surveillance, Relational Personhood, and the Biometric Containment of African Mobility.

Mig007

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Who’s staying? African worlds of outmigration

Mig008

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Migration and Nativism in Africa: Contexts, Causes and Consequences

Mig009

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Pathways of Citizenship in Africa: from local to continental challenges

Mig010

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Beyond Eurocentrism and Pan-African Idealism: Situating the Practices and Sites of Intra-African Migration

Mig011

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Sporting Mobilities as African Prisms: Labour, Aspiration, Exclusion and Belonging

Mig012

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Deportation Through a Prism: Expulsion, Deportability and Return in Africa

Mig013

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Jihad in Motion : space, im/mobility and political order-making

Mig014

1 paper proposal Propose

Extraction, Displacement, Precarity and Belonging: Militarised Mineral Frontiers in Africa

Mig015

1 paper proposal Propose

African Student Mobility: Higher Education, Migration and Soft Power

Mig016

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African Integration, Migration and Security Challenges: A Historical Review of Policies and African Realities

Poli001

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Gender and international cooperation with African and European partners: negotiating decoloniality in NGO and research projects

Poli002

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Political Dynamics in Guinea-Bissau since the arrival to the presidential office of Umaro Sissoco Embaló

Poli003

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Political representation and democratic accountability in Africa

Poli004

1 paper proposal Propose

Political elites in Africa: socialization, aspiration and decision-making

Poli005

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From Grievance to Mobilization: Understanding Protest and the State in Africa

Poli006

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Immortal Bodies: Gerontocracy, Body politic and the (non) Government of the End in Africa.

Poli007

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Whose Partner? African States and the Politics of Turkish and Gulf Engagement in Africa

Poli008

1 paper proposal Propose

Refracting Power: African Prisms on China–Africa Military Cooperation

Poli009

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From Arena to Actor: African Agency and the Making of a Multipolar World

Poli010

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Prisms of Perpetual Crisis: Disasters, Governance and Experimentation in Africa

Poli011

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The aftermath of protests across the Indian Ocean (2024-2025). Civil society, state legitimacy, and the role of youth in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Madagascar

Poli012

1 paper proposal Propose

Rethinking Boko Haram: The Evolution of a Jihadist Group Since 2015

Poli013

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“The AES Is; The AES Is Not; Analysis of Power in Motion”

Poli014

1 paper proposal Propose

Extraterritorial Authoritarianism through African lenses

Poli015

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Beyond ‘Gen Z’: Contextualizing urban protest and the ‘anti-protest state’ in East Africa

Poli016

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African Jihadism: a biographical turn

Poli017

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Governing African Food Systems from the Local: Political Economy, Climate Change and Food Security

Poli018

1 paper proposal Propose

Following Extractive Infrastructures: Power, Mining and Capitalism in Southern Africa

Poli019

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Communaucratic populism: African prisms of populism, communal grammars, and electoral mobilization in postcolonial democracies [CRG African Politics and IR]

Poli020

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(In)visibilities and visualities in researching African interventions

Poli021

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Seeing and (Re-)Making World Orders from Africa [CRG African Politics and IR]

Poli022

1 paper proposal Propose

The African State through the Prism of Environmental Policy

Poli023

1 paper proposal Propose

Sovereigntism through a Sahelian Prism: Perspectives on Sovereignty and Political Autonomy

Poli025

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Democratic Experimentation in Africa

Poli027

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African Non-Military Conflict Interventions in a Contested Global Order

Poli028

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Making, Negotiating and Contesting: Practices of Legitimation in Africa.

Poli029

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Africa’s changing elites: career renewal, mobility and overlaps

Poli030

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External actors, national governments and the 'negotiated' reform of social protection

Poli031

2 paper proposals Propose

Refracting Conflict and Political Order in Mozambique: Insurgency, Electoral Violence, Justice and Social Division

Poli032

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People power philosophies: re-approaching the ideas of protest movements in Africa today

Poli033

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Mobile Payments, Pickets, and Petitions: Refracting Bottom-up Governance in Africa Through a Cross-disciplinary Lens

Poli034

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Africa's Resource Prisms: Communities, States and Transnational Relations in the Energy Transition

Poli035

1 paper proposal Propose

Capturing value from geopolitical competition? Challenges and opportunities for African industrial strategies [CRG African Politics and IR]

Poli036

1 paper proposal Propose

From the Local to the National Arena: Municipal Elections and Democratic Competition in Africa

Poli037

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Exploring democratic resilience through African prisms

Poli038

2 paper proposals Propose

Refining the ‘African agency’ prism: Strategic positionings in contemporary geopolitics [CRG African politics and IR]

Poli039

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Negotiating future visions for South Africa in transition

Poli040

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Towards a Pluriversal and Adaptive Understanding of Sustainable Governance in Africa

Poli041

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African Realities via Central and Eastern European Prisms

Rel001

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Platformed Faith as an African Prism: Digital Religion, Authority and Everyday Ethics

Rel002

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Religion and Politics in Africa: rethinking objects, scales, and boundaries

Rel003

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Islam, Salafism, and Social Media in Africa: Reconfiguring Religious Authority, Practice, and Mobilization in the Digital Age

Rel004

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Minoritising Islam: Marginal refractions and the Making of Muslim Identities across Africa and its Diasporas

Rel005

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Religion takes place: frontiers, territories and belonging in colonial and postcolonial times

Rel006

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Refracting the Sacred: Exploring the Relationship Between Religion, Artificial Intelligence, and African Ways of Knowing.

Soc001

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African occult imaginaries in the age of conspiracy

Soc002

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Beyond Coups: Armed Forces, Political Power and State-Building in Africa

Soc003

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Rethinking how professional trades are learned: new perspectives on technical and vocational training

Soc004

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The Prisms of Green Rent: The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), Gender, Sovereignty, and Sociopolitical Tensions Surrounding African Export Crops

Soc005

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Politics in disguise and from below: Authority, Hierarchy and the Hidden Sites of Political Socialization in Africa

Soc006

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Virtual Rumours and Health. New Perspectives on Digitized Uncertainty

T0180

1 paper proposal Propose

Afro-diasporic connections within a transnational landscape: insights from cross-disciplinary perspectives

Urb001

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Vertical Informality: Rethinking African Cities through History, Architecture and Everyday Life

Urb002

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Urban water and wastewater infrastructure as confluences of power, people, and politics

Urb003

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Governing by discretion: hybrid authority, classification, and the informal state in African cities.

Urb004

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Urban Futures: Rethinking the Politics and Governance of Housing in African Cities

Urb005

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Layered Ports: Infrastructure, Territorial Power and Coastal Urban Life in Africa

Urb006

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Making Ground: Extractive Ecologies and African Urbanism

Urb007

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Speculative Urban Futures

Urb008

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African Urban Experiences: Stories and Everyday Imaginaries of City-Makers

Urb009

2 paper proposals Propose

Repairing Urban Life: Everyday Practices of Healing and Care in African Cities

Urb010

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African Urban Waterscapes: Relations, Fragments, and Refractions

Urb011

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Refracting the City: Platform Urbanism and Networked Life in Africa.

Urb012

1 paper proposal Propose

Which Nature? Understanding Urban Nature in African Cities

Urb013

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Higher. Faster. Stronger? Unpacking Verticalisation in Urban Africa

Urb014

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Entangled urban timescapes: rethinking urban time and transformation

VioConf001

2 paper proposals Propose

Political Violence in the Horn of Africa: Origins, Current Dynamics and Future Trends

VioConf002

1 paper proposal Propose

African Prisms of Recovery: Performing Cultural Resilience, Heritage and Communal Healing after Conflict

VioConf003

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Privatising Security? Revisiting Informal, Civilian and Commercial Security in Contemporary Africa

VioConf004

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Shifting regional geopolitics and the reconfiguration of state-making in Africa’s conflicts.

VioConf005

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Refracting Peace: What Counts as Peace in Sudan's War, and for Whom?

VioConf006

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Responses to jihadist violence and governance in Africa

VioConf007

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Endogenous Perspectives on Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace in Conflict-Prone Communities in Africa

VioConf008

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Critical perspectives on analyses of armed conflict and peacebuilding in Africa: debates, methodological approaches and experiences, with reference to Mozambique.