ASAUK Biennial Conference 2010
The ASAUK Biennial conference will be held in Oxford in 2010, at St Antony’s College and other venues. The conference will run from 2pm on Thursday Sept 16th to 1pm on Sunday 19th September. More info....
ASAUK Directory of British Africanists
A new edition of the ASAUK Directory of British Africanists is being produced. While the previous three editions of 1986, 1990 and 1996 have all been paper editions, the new directory will be online, regularly updated and constantly renewed with additional names. For more info....
ASAUK Distinguished Africanist Award
The Distinguished Africanist Award was inaugurated by the ASAUK as a way of paying tribute to people who have made exceptional contributions to the field of African studies. Read more and then please send nominations to David Kerr at d.kerr(AT)bham.ac.uk, the ASAUK Research Administrator, by 21st May 2010.
Audrey Richards prize for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies
The Audrey Richards Prize is awarded biennially for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies which has been successfully examined in a United Kingdom institute of higher education during the two calendar years immediately preceding the 16. to 19. September 2010 ASAUK Conference.
The 2009 prize will be for theses examined between 1. January 2008 and 31. December 2009. Nominations must be made by 31. March 2010. Read more...
The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom was founded in 1963 and is the national subject association for Africanists within the academic community. ASAUK is a non-profit organisation which has over 900 members drawn from Africanist scholars, students and other experts. Through conferences, workshops, a newsletter and a number of prizes and awards, the African Studies Association supports and provides information to the Africanist community. ASAUK works in close cooperation with the Royal African Society (RAS), and members receive the influential quarterly journal African Affairs. In 2006 ASAUK was recognised as a Learned Society by the British Academy.
Mission
The mission of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom is to advance African Studies and to facilitate the interchange of information, research and ideas in this field and the coordination of activities by and between persons and institutions concerned with the study of Africa.
Download the latest Association newsletter from the News page.
If you are interested in joining the ASAUK, click on membership above.
See two new funding opportunities on the news page.
We are currently working on a new Directory of Africanists in Britain.
