African Studies Workshop

Mondays from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET starting February 2nd, 2026
The Spring 2026 African Studies Workshop will take place in-person and online. We encourage all local folks to join us in-person at the Center for African Studies. A light lunch will be served! Please sign up to the African Studies Workshop listserv to receive the weekly papers and the virtual registration link for each session.

Spring 2026 ASW sessions:
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Past 2025 Select Recordings Coming Soon!

The African Studies Workshop at Harvard offers a dynamic and diverse scholarly community for exploring Africa’s changing place in the world - and the new opportunities, challenges, insights, and innovations arising through cutting-edge scholarship on the region. The workshop also serves to interrogate the ways African realities foreshadow processes beginning to unfold elsewhere around the world. As such, the African Studies Workshop is always a productive source of theory and analysis about historical and current conditions globally.  

This coming ASW cycle, we welcome energetic presenters who are scholars of high international repute, as well as up-and-coming Africanist intellectuals. The Workshop runs, simultaneously in person and as a hybrid/online laboratory for international exchange. We welcome submissions from across the disciplines in one of three academic formats: 

  • Academic paper presentations on new/forthcoming research
  • Doctoral job market paper or thesis presentations 
  • Book launches and book talks 

For all works in progress, a paper will be pre-circulated a week in advance through the ASW mailing list for constructive feedback and discussion.  

View previous select workshops here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/2369529