We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2022 ASAUK biennial conference titled: “Diaspora Remittance Flows: Restitution, Culture and Capital”. This is an innovative conference which seeks to harness the global two-year involvement with online communications with our physical engagement with conferencing which we hope will return in 2022. This conference is conceived to enable our research colleagues in Africa (Ibadan, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya) to be part of the research conversation at the 29th ASAUK biennial conference, via the zoom media platform. We also will be running a smaller traditional in-person conference in Liverpool addressing this and other ASAUK member-determined themes.
Running from August 31^st – September 4^th, 2022, the ASAUK Biennial conference will be a unique two-part conference. With British Academy funding, the first part will take place entirely online and involve ASAUK research colleagues based in Ibadan and Nairobi engaging in the conference themes from Africa based platforms shared across Africa and Liverpool in the UK. This will be followed by a smaller, traditional in-person conference, hosted by the ASAUK at the University of Liverpool.
We invite you to attend the online conference, which is entirely free, and also to come to Liverpool for the ‘in-person’ conference, taking place from Friday 2^nd – Sunday 4^th September. The Liverpool conference will have a smaller audience, and conference panel requirements planned to pre-empt possible ongoing Covid health advice on conference size and appropriately spaced and ventilated conference facilities. Taking this into account, there will be online access to the physical Liverpool conference for a reduced fee.
 

THE ONLINE CONFERENCE  31st August – 2nd September

IBADAN-NAIROBI-LIVERPOOL

Restitution, Culture and Capital
This is an entirely free to attend conference (with registration required).
Hosted by ASAUK colleagues at the IFRA Institute, at the University of Ibadan and the BIEA, Nairobi, the online conference has been directly funded by the British Academy, with generous supplementary funding from the BIEA. It will be delivered entirely online from both Ibadan and Nairobi, using the Zoom platform. Working closely with the Institutes in Ibadan and Nairobi, these interactive conferences will be broadcast on two consecutive days, from Ibadan on Wednesday 31^st August and Nairobi on Thursday, 1^st September. The final part of the online conference will be broadcast from Liverpool on Friday 2^nd September, jointly chaired by the ASAUK and RAS presidents.
We expect to curate and edit the key papers, from Ibadan, Nairobi and Liverpool that will be discussed at this unique online conference series. These with support from the British Academy will form the basis of the ASAUK publication Restitution Culture and Capital in Africa and the Diaspora, a trans-national conversation which will elaborate on the themes of the conference through the publication of the keynote papers and also the responses as recorded by participants at the three conference platforms.
The panel session themes and keynotes for the three day online conference are as follows:
 
HOSTED ONLINE FROM IFRA, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
Curated by Vincent Hiribarren, Director IFRA Ibadan
Ibadan Session 1 DIASPORA FLOWS OF CULTURAL ARTEFACTS TO AND FROM AFRICA
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Zachary Kingdon, Shadreck Chirikure
TBC David Adjaye
Ibadan Session 2 DIASPORA FLOWS OF PEOPLES AND CULTURES TO AND FROM AFRICA
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Saheed Aderinto, Peju Layiwola
TBC David Olusoga, Akosua Adomako Ampofo
 
HOSTED ONLINE FROM BIEA NAIROBI
Curated by Ambreena Manji + Freda Nkirote, Director of BIEA Nairobi
Nairobi Session 1 RESTITUTIONARY FUTURES: LAND JUSTICE
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Parselelo Kantai
Nairobi Session 2 RESTITUTIONARY FUTURES: A JUST HOME
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prabha Kotiswaran
 
LIVERPOOL HOSTED CONCLUDING SESSION
Curated by Ola Uduku and Arunma Oteh
African Diasporas, remittances and capital in a post-Covid era and Viewing the European Black Diaspora in the 2020s
Confirmed Liverpool Keynote Speakers
Onyekachi Wambu Afford UK, Tunde Zack-Williams ASAUK
TBC Miatta Fahnbulleh, New Economics Foundation,
Prior to the online sessions keynote speakers will discuss their papers with Africa-based ECRs in workshop format.
 

THE LIVERPOOL ASAUK 29th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

FRIDAY 2nd – SUNDAY 4th September 2022
The ‘in-person’ Liverpool Conference follows the traditional panel theme format. Whilst the panel theme titled: “Diaspora: Restitution, Culture and Capital“, follows on directly from the online conference, we invite proposals for other panel themes.
As this is planned to be a smaller conference we call on panel proposers to ensure all panel proposals are sent in to the ASAUK conference team by 31^st March, 2022. All proposals need to have the names of the 3 – 4 paper givers, and their abstracts submitted by the 31^st March deadline. This will enable us to plan the conference space and facilities required. It will also mean that we can work to ensure that any documentation required for proposed international participants who might need this will get processed on time. We realise that this is different from the traditional conference format but hope you will join us for this unique, innovative conference in 2022. The 30^th April is the later deadline for individual paper proposals. Due to the smaller conference format, space for individual papers will be limited and we encourage paper givers to consider working with emerging panel themes which will announce from February onwards.
The 29^th ASAUK biennial conference dinner will be held at Liverpool University’s Victoria Gallery and Museum on Saturday 3^rd September. This will also be the venue for announcement and awards ceremony for the Audrey Richards prize, the Fage and Oliver prize and the distinguished Africanist awards ceremony.
For more information about the 29^th ASAUK conference. Please contact the conference organisation team via the email address: asaukconference22@gmail.com. Panel proposals, comprising the 3 – 4 papers with abstracts, can also now be sent to this address.
We will be providing further information as the conference details develop on our website and via social media.