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Upcoming conferences

This page intends to list upcoming conferences on African languages. The information will not be archived after the respective conference dates. A continually updated list of linguistics conferences can be found at the LinguistList website.

Send updates and corrections to Jouni Maho.

27th West African Languages Conference
University of Education, Winneba Campus, Ghana

Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2008

walc2008winneba@yahoo.com (email contact)

Special session of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6)
Departamento de Lingüística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2007

www.fflch.usp.br/dl/wocal6special/callforpapers.htm

38th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
State University of Leiden, Netherlands

Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2008

www.tca.leidenuniv.nl

8th AIDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe) Conference
Colchester, Essex, The UK

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2008

www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/pgr/AIDA/home.shtm

Anthropology in Southern Africa, and beyond
University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2008

H-Net announcement

8th International Afro-Asiatic Congress
Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy

Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2008

sbaldi@ino.it (email contact: Sergio Baldi)

2nd International Conference on Mande Languages
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St Petersburg, Russia

Deadline for submissions: March 31 (panels), April 30 (papers), 2008

LinguistList announcement

Swaziland Since 1968
Department of History, University of Swaziland

Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2008

H-Net announcement

2nd Annual Africanist Graduate Student Conference
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2008

africa.msu.edu/gradconference

Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics
Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Leipzig, Germany

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2008

www.rz.uni-leipzig.de/~egyptol/index.htm

Perspectives on African Decolonization
Center for International Studies, Ohio University at Athens, USA

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008

www.ohio.edu/african/conferences.cfm

Religion & Religious Identities in Africa and the African Diaspora
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US

Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2008

H-Net announcement

KANT II: 2. Kölner Afrikawissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstagung
Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany

Deadline for submissions: August 30, 2008

www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/kant/kant2_index.html

8th Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa
Bishop Booth Conference Center, Burlington VT, USA

Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2008

H-Net announcement

Adventure! Danger! Romance! (2008 Film & History Conference)
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Omotic Modality Markers and Linguistic Typology
Leiden University, Netherlands

Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2008

LinguistList announcement

Applications of Phonetics and Phonology on Arabic
AL Al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan

Deadline for submissions: August 1, 2008

www.aabu.edu.jo/art/home.htm

51st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago IL, The US

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2008

www.africanstudies.org

The Native Speaker and the Mother Tongue
Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for registrations: July 31, 2008

LinguistList announcement

International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2008)
Hammamet, Tunisia

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2008

www.acit2k.org/sub2008.html?ACIT2008/final.html

8th Conference On Language Engineering
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Deadline for submissions: August 16, 2008

www.esole.org

123rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
New York City

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2008

www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm

1st International Conference on Language Documentation
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2008

nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

3rd International Conference on Bantu Languages
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2008

www.africamuseum.be/research/anthropology/linguistic/events

2009 Africa Conference
University of Texas at Austin, The US

Deadline for registrations: November 1, 2008

www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa

35th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association
University of Vermont at Burlington, USA

Deadline for submissions: October 30, 2008

www.uvm.edu/conferences/ALA2009

Creating knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa
Université de Paris, France

Deadline for submissions: July 10, 2008

H-Net announcement

6th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6)
University of Cologne, Germany

Deadline for submissions: TBA

www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/wocal/index.shtml