Call for Papers

(Re)generation in African Studies: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Activism

The 11th Annual LSA Conference

 June 15-19, 2027

Trinity University (Sabo/Yaba, Lagos) and Zoom

Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2026

 
Over several decades of scholarly research and intellectual activism, different generations of scholars and practitioners, representing diverse chronological eras, pose new questions about how to conduct and disseminate research, what constitutes knowledge, how to frame research problems, or even who should be part of knowledge and scholarly creative activities. These questions respond to different intellectual climates, broaden the field of engagement in African studies, and redefine scholarship, pedagogy, and intellectual activism.

How do different moments generate “new” and “revolutionary” questions and practices that constantly reimagine the field of African studies? Over time, “new” and “revolutionary” questions and practices of a generation become stale and anachronistic, either because their exponents and the ideas they advocated for have refused to evolve with the tide of time, or they became self-absorbed and rigid. New cycles of (re)generation emerge only to be supplanted or sidelined by another wave of people and ideas, challenging the status quo.

Conversations about cost, location, theme, and composition of academic associations and their gatherings and the notion of crisis in different fields, which gave birth to new professional networks, are part of this long-standing tradition of querying dominant wisdom and practices of the past and the present. Such questions are asked again by a newer generation of scholars and practitioners who want changes, whether radical or subtle, fast or slow.

We invite participants to reflect on what (re)generation means in the diverse and diversely located fields of African studies. We encourage presentations that reflect on how shifting questions and practices (or epistemological, pedagogical, ideological crises) serve as a force of (re)generation in African studies. We welcome submissions that grapple with (re)generation as the propellant of new ways of knowing, of intellectual activism, and of a new beginning, that draws inspiration from the old or the past. What makes (re)generation fascinating is not just the reference to chronological age and generational difference among scholars and activists, all of which shape reception towards technology and other kinds of adoption that frames research and intellectual culture, but because it could be elusive. The concept of (re)generation organically builds new perspectives and protocol; it is regenerative because it does all these through a rebirth or redirection of the same norms it critiques.

 
Submission Rules

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.

 
Submit your abstract here:

Local participants/Nigeria-based: https://forms.gle/3J59nMciyLw5vwS79

International participants: https://forms.gle/ActFkZboRpnYZEb77

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, 2026. Notification of acceptance of abstracts on January 1, 2027. Payment Deadline: February 1, 2027


Registration Fee:

Local (Nigeria-based academics and practitioners) (N10,000)

International (Full-time academics and practitioners) ($150)

International Graduate Students ($100)

Registration fee is required, whether presenting physically or virtually. The registration fee covers 15 full meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) throughout the five-day conference. Everyone listed on abstracts must pre-register by paying the registration fee after acceptance of an abstract.



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Call for Panelists

  1. Money: Ololade Asake’s 4th Album https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Folajimi-62mx.docx

  2. (Re)generating African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Documentary Film, Memory, Practice, Transmission, and New Ways of Knowing https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Okwuowulu-ty62.docx

  3. Performing the Self: (Re)generation of Autobiographical and Verbatim Theatre Scholarship, Pedagogy and Activism on the Nigerian Stage https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ojoniyi-f4cj.docx

  4. Reimagining African Visual Knowledge through Art, Design and Artificial Intelligence https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ajayi-d8pl.docx

  5. African Migrants and Transnational Influence: Rethinking Diaspora Agency across Borders https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Oluwasanmi-pt4y.docx

  6. Regenerating Belonging: Ritual of Loss, Rupture and Social Remaking in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Odewumi.docx

  7. Regenerating Knowledge from Below: Culture, Gender, and Community-Based Scholarship in North-Central Nigeria https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Salihu-sb7y.docx

  8. Diaspora Real Estate Investment in African Urban Spaces https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Sanwo-Olu.docx

  9. African Cities: Urban Memory, Infrastructure, and the Politics of Renewal https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Boge-579k.docx

  10. Science and the Humanities in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Omilani-3ypp.doc

  11. Of Streets and Streeters: Gender, Sexuality, and the (Re)making of African Urban Spaces https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Wright-mfg6.docx

  12. Law, Society, and Social Transformation in Africa: Emerging Challenges, Contestations, and New Frontiers https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olanrewaju-Elufowoju2.docx

  13. Medical Knowledge in Africa: Missionaries, Migrants, and Indigenous Healing Traditions https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ogunbode.doc

  14. Transmitting New Thinking through Archival Memory: African Aesthetics through Indigenous Textiles, Fashion and Pottery Artistry https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Quadri.docx

  15. Copyright, Digital Piracy and Intellectual Property Governance in Nigeria’s Publishing Industry https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ajayi2.docx

  16. Making Development: Careers, Knowledge, and Expertise in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Yusuff-b787.docx

  17. (Re)making Hausa Knowledge: Epistemologies, Pedagogies, and the Persistence of Indigenous Thought https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/LSA-Hausa-Panel-2027.docx

  18. Marriage, Children, or Neither? Agency, Countercultural Choices and the Remaking of Family Life in Contemporary Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Agidigbo-gj5t.docx

  19. (Re)thinking Farmers–Herders' Conflicts in Northern Nigeria: A Discourse Beyond Scholarship, Pedagogy and Activism https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Aule.docx

  20. Regenerating African Ecological Knowledge through Text, Memory, Language, and Digital Culture https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/CEDHUL.docx

  21. Who Gets to Belong? Migration, Mobility and Identity in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Anbali.doc

  22. Speculative Canvas: Afrofuturistic Methodologies, Art-Activism and the African Art Pedagogy https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Quadri-2nd-panel_Speculative-Canvas.docx

  23. Playwrights and the Regeneration of Playmaking in African Literature, Media and Film https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ernest-Samuel-5jjh.docx

  24. Decolonising the Nigerian Screen: Contributions of Yoruba Dramatists and Cineastes to African Cinemas https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olayiwola.docx

  25. Whose Child Is It? Unlearning and (Re)generating Child Welfare Knowledge in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ezeh-bgl8.docx

  26. Unlocking Sustainable Wellbeing in the Digital Age: Reimagining Life, Livelihood and Belonging in Nigeria and Beyond https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Balogun-yyj9.docx

  27. Extalgia: Regenerative Reflections on Migration, Immobility, Grief and the Creative Response of Transcendence in Ethnography, Text, Philosophy and (Popular) Culture https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olaoluwa.doc

  28. Bodies and the State: Politicising Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary African Crisis https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Onanuga-9ldd.docx

  29. Research Lifecycle in the Age of Emerging Technologies: Reimagining Academic Misconduct, Research Integrity, and Scholarly Futures in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adebayo-dx3t.docx

  30. Regenerating the Past: African Cultural Practices, Indigenous Knowledge and New Beginnings https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Okocha-Ajila.docx

  31. Live Yoruba Terminology Co-creation: Town-and-gown co-conceptualization of modern knowledge https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/AdebayoTaofeeq.docx

  32. Whose Knowledge Counts? (Re)generating African Epistemologies through Language, Health and Pedagogy https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ajadi-axda.docx

  33. Knowledge (Re)generation: Digital Transformation, Indigenous Pathways and Future Libraries in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adeyeye-rhwf.docx

  34. Speaking with the Unseen: Language, Power, and Spiritual Healing in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Imam.docx

  35. African Knowledge and Scholarship: The Role of Libraries, Librarians, and Digital Technology https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adenekan-axt8.docx

  36. Livelihoods from the Margins: Disability, Displacement, and Everyday Enterprise in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adim.docx

  37. The Body as Archive: Gender, Performance, and Indigenous African Pedagogy https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Onyemuchara-jgjk.docx

  38. African Textiles and Fashion: Cultural Heritage, Technology, and Globalisation https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Diyaolu.docx

  39. Public Health Knowledge in Lagos: Rethinking the SDGs, Literacy and Citizen Participation https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Dawodu.docx

  40. Beyond the Other Room: Women and (Re)generation of Self-Awareness https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Yusuf.docx