MAAAS 2024 Conference

Flyer for MAAAS 2024 Annual Meeting

About MAAAS

The Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) is an organization for the promotion of African Studies in mid-America, including in particular the region between the Mississippi River and the frontal range of the Rocky Mountains. Founded at the University of Kansas in 1995, MAAAS seeks to encourage scholarship and teaching in African Studies regionally and sub-regionally through conferences, seminars, workshops, consortia, faculty and student exchanges, cooperative relations between libraries, and promotion of African language teaching, among other endeavors. MAAAS is open to all with an interest in scholarship and teaching within an African Studies focus, and it seeks especially to provide a forum for far-flung Africanists in the middle of the U.S., where great distances exist between relatively small pockets of African Studies enthusiasts.

 

Call for Proposals has closed! 

MAAAS 2024: Disinformation, Miseducation, and Epistemic Violence

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

October 31 and November 1, 2024

The Mid America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) will hold its 29th annual meeting virtually and in person at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM CDT (14:00 to 22:00 UTC) on Thursday, 31 OCT and Friday, 01 NOV.

We are excited to have you  at our upcoming conference! Feel free to use this link https://getdp.co/q_H  to create your customized flyers for social media publicity.  Below is some important information to help you prepare:

Conference Schedule:

 Please review the final program carefully and note the time of your presentation.

Venue Information:

The conference will occur at Beller Conference Center rooms 1001 and 1003, in the University of Kansas Medical Center Hemenway building. The address is 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, Kansas, 66160

Parking Information:

Parking details are provided in the attached parking map. Please plan accordingly to ensure you arrive on time.

Entrance Details:

The main entrance to the venue is through the Hemenway building.  The doors will be unlocked from 7:30-9:30am.  When you enter through Hemenway, there will be signs directing you to the conference registration area on the first floor of the building.  There are spiral stairs that take you right up to the rooms as well as there are elevators that can take you to the first floor.

Presentation Time:

You will have 15 minutes to present and 10 minutes for a Q&A session. If you have a PowerPoint presentation, please send it to us in advance.

Zoom Links for Virtual Presenters:

Please the  program schedule for Zoom links to all sessions.

Fees

  • Non-faculty: Membership = $10, Registration = $10 (Non-member registration =$25)
  • Faculty: Membership = $20, Registration = $20 (Non-member registration = $50)

Tea, lunch on both days and dinner on Thursday will be covered. Kansas African Studies Center may pay the registration fees of graduate students who will attend physically. Virtual presenters are exempted from paying for registration fees. If you have issues paying via the link, you bring cash to the venue. There is room for 6 graduate students who may need a ride to the conference venue from Lawrence, kindly reply this message.

Virtual Keynote Address

12:00-13:15 (17:00-18:15 UTC)

Kindly note that the virtual keynote address will happen tomorrow. It is titled, Disinformation in the Global South: Critique, Contexts, Cases, by Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Join  here: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocu6orT0oGNJykbRSDUZOCqTmQsw3Yp8Q

If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to reach out. We look forward to your presentation and to having you be part of this event!

Payments can be made here.

For additional information about the MAAAS conference, please contact the Kansas African Studies Center (kasc@ku.edu).

Sincerely,

 

Christabel Tsoto

MAAAS President

ctsoto@ku.edu 

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Call for Papers:

Ken Lohrentz Graduate Paper Award

Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS)

Disinformation, Miseducation, and Epistemic Violence

October 31 and November 1, 2024

KU Medical Center

Kansas City, KS

 

We invite graduate students from any field in African Studies to submit a paper for the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) Ken Lohrentz Graduate Paper Award.

Guidelines for Graduate Paper Submission:

  • Papers should engage the conference theme of Disinformation, Miseducation, and Epistemic Violence
  • Due date for consideration is 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC) on Friday, October 25, 2024. Submit papers in MS Word or Adobe pdf format to the Kansas African Studies Center at kasc@ku.edu.
  • Include your full name, contact information and graduate program name on the title page.
  • Faculty sponsor signature required: Your faculty sponsor’s signature should appear on the title page with his/her name typed below it along with your institution's name and date. (Note: The faculty sponsor does NOT need to attend the conference or even be a member of MAAAS.)
  • Papers may be no more than 30 pages, double spaced using size 12 font minimum.
  • Presentation at the conference is mandatory to receive this award.
  • The winner of the award will receive a cash prize of USD $100.00.
  • We will announce the winner at the MAAAS conference on November 1, 2024.