ASAUK Biennial Conference 2006
11th-13th September 2006, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The conference brought together Africanists working in a wide variety of disciplines. Within particular disciplinary fields the organisers outlined certain themes: contemporary African cinema, human rights, the history of elections, writing in the diaspora, education and poverty reduction, plant and animal health, religiosity, village libraries, community action, AIDS, local governance, drylands ecology, planning sustainable cities, and the state of higher education in Africa.
The conference consisted of 52 panels in seven parallel series, allowing conference participants to follow a sequence of papers over three days:
- Series A: history, politics, and urban studies
- Series B: environment, development and human rights
- Series C: human, plant and animal health
- Series D: anthropology, religion, and conflict
- Series E: literature, media and the visual arts
- Series F: books, writing and education
- Series G: various themes
