7th European Conference on African Studies Basel, 29 June – 1 July 2017

The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies organise and host the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 with the theme Urban Africa - Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban. ECAS 2017 will take place 29 June - 1 July 2017 in Basel. Please visit the website: http://ecas2017.ch/
The conveners call for the submission of panel proposals addressing the conference theme Urban Africa - Urban Africans. New encounters of the urban and the rural but are explicitly open and sensitive to proposals focusing the rural. Africa may be becoming urban but it will remain a rural continent for a long time. Urbanization has an impact on the nature of the rural much in the same way that the character of the rural shapes urban dynamics in particular ways. It will be of crucial importance to explore rural-urban entanglements on the continent and encourage researchers with a strong research record in rural Africa to bring their expertise to bear on how the changing face of the continent is impacting their own object. Propositions addressing other themes and emerging issues in particular are equally welcome.

The call for panels will be circulated from 1 March 2016. The time frame for the submission of panel propositions via the conference website www.ecas2017.ch extends from 1 March 2016 to 30 June 2016. All panel proposals must be made via the online form. On the form, you will be asked to provide your contact details, institutional affiliation and current position, the title of your panel in at least two of the three working languages of AEGIS (English, French and Portuguese) and an abstract of no more than 1500 characters (spaces included).

Panels will last an hour and a half and will include a maximum of 4-5 participants, including the panel convener or discussant. Panels are required to be open for paper proposals. Each participant shall present one paper only but may be involved as convener of a further panel, plenary session or roundtable, or be involved as discussant in one of these.