- Submission deadline
- October 23, 2026
- Event date
- February 10, 2027
- Format
- Hybrid
- Location
- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, and online
- Compensation
- Not listed
About this call
The hybrid conference brings together scholars, archivists, and practitioners in African, African American, and diaspora studies. Its theme, “Beyond Repair: Reconciliations, Restorations, Resurgences,” invites discussion of repair, justice, and their limits. It welcomes individual presentation and panel proposals on any topic relevant to AAAD studies, for either in-person or virtual presentation.
Topics
African, African American, and diaspora studiesReparations and restorative justiceReconciliation and post-conflict recoveryArchives and memoryCommunity and ecological restorationClimate resilienceDiasporic networksReproductive and transitional justiceLiterary resurgence and digital storytelling
Audience
ScholarsArchivistsPractitioners
Session formats
Individual presentationsPre-constituted panelsVirtual presentationsIn-person presentations
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