Date:
Location: Lagos , Nigeria Hybrid (In person, University of Lagos and Zoom)
The 9th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association
June 17-21, 2025
Across global African studies, from the social sciences to the humanities, scholars, writers, artists, and commentators, among other knowledge producers have been preoccupied with questions of continuities and discontinuities in the societies they study and in their own disciplines. To understand what changed and what did not about a particular topic, society, and idea is to come to terms with major shifts in how communities and people understand the complexities of their world. From science to politics, from technology to art, major changes have always been shaped by a strong understanding of what the past gave, what the present holds, and what the future promises.
Continuities and discontinuities are relative. What constitutes a change in a society is always in a state of flux. This is because the idea of change is often based on competing interpretations by people occupying different strata within a society and influenced by varying ideologies and have a diverse emotive connection to the subject and communities. Also, what constitutes change is shaped by how events of the past continue to resurface at major turning points. Continuities and discontinuities are not rigid binaries, but shades and iterations of change. Consequently, the overlapping realities of continuities and discontinuities then offer more than an avenue to engage progress and regression, but also to reflect on the future.
For the 9th edition of its annual conference, the LSA welcomes submissions that offer new ways of thinking about continuities and discontinuities in African studies. What practices, ideologies, and power regimes shape how ideas about continuities and discontinuities are framed? What exactly should be the parameters for measuring transformation?
SAH members are encouraged to submit for the following panels:
#13) “The Age of Concrete”: Rethinking Colonial and Transnational Architecture and Spatial Transformation in the Global South https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Isiani.docx
#14) Of Streets and Streeters: Bodies, Expressions, and Identities in African Urban Space https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Wright.docx
Individual Submission: Individual proposals should include a 250-word abstract, a short bio, and the email and phone contacts of presenters. Please do not submit more than one abstract. Abstracts cannot have more than two presenters. You cannot present more than one paper, either solo or joint.
Local participants/Nigeria-based: https://forms.gle/wx25exmy9dthmvi46
International participants: https://forms.gle/zgn1XxcLakfFEBfa7
Panel Submission: Panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals should comprise a 250-word summary, and the email and phone contacts of all panelists. Please email panel proposals to LSA at lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024. Notification of acceptance of abstracts by January 1, 2025. Payment Deadline: February 1.
Local (Nigeria-based) (N10,000)
International (Full-time academics and practitioners) ($150)
International Graduate Students ($100)
