60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association - Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa

Date: 

Thu - Sat, Nov 16 to Nov 18, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Location: 

Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 540 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

The ASA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of Africanist scholars in the world. With an attendance of about 2,000 scholars and professionals, the conference offers: over 300 panels and roundtables, plenary events featuring keynote speakers, awards ceremony and dance party, institutional and organizational receptions and meetings, an international exhibit hall, and screenings of award-winning movies from Africa, and/or by African producers. The 2017 annual meeting of the ASA will focus on how institutions are sites of dynamism, contestation, and continuity. They structure daily life. As the organizations or associations that foster or constrain society, economy, culture, and politics - or as the practices and customs that contour them - institutions bind and render, build and destroy. ASA anticipates papers that examine how institutions promote or undermine existing gendered, racial, ethnic, class, and generational power differentials and the trends that have influenced the way power operates in Africa.

ORGANIZER(S): African Studies Association
EVENT WEBSITE: http://www.africanstudies.org/annual-meetings