The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) is inviting members to submit items for the Fall 2018 association newsletter.   Items may include announcements for conferences and symposia, calls for papers and proposals, exhibitions, current publications and resources, member news, and upcoming events.  DUE DATE:  COB September 14, 2018.

Note:Candidate Statements for new Board positions will be available in this issue.

Please send all submissions to Deborah Stokes at  Deborah.Stokes@icloud.com or Leslie Rabine at lwrabine@gmail.com.

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CAA has announced a Call for Participation in Sessions Soliciting Contributors for the 2019 Annual Conference. See here for panels that directly mention Africa in the abstract. View the entire CFP here. 250-words abstracts to be sent to the panel chairs by August 6th. All speakers notified by August 30th.

Due date: March 15, 2018

The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) seeks expressions of interest from members whose institutional contacts can host our Eighteenth Triennial Symposium on African Art in 2020. Institutions can be a university, museum, research center, or other venue appropriate for a conference of about 450 participants. Read more…

The final 2017 ACASA program schedule is now available.

Studio and Gallery Visits, Exhibitions, Receptions, and Tours

For symposium presenters, ACASA will provide laptops, projectors, and screens. The use of personal laptops is not advised.

Welcome Logistics Information is available here.

The July 1 deadline no longer applies to registration for Post-Symposium Tours in Ghana. Tour reservations are now open until spaces are full.

See here for a description of the tours. Download the registration form here.

ACASA triennial participants, please donate your books to University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, and the Faculty of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. Read more…

ACASA has distributed all of the funds it raised to assist colleagues to travel to our upcoming Triennial Symposium, and we need your help once more. To those who have given, thank you for your generosity. If you’ve not yet given or are able to lend more help to this cause, please do so. Even small donations help a great deal, and larger ones are particularly appreciated.

To donate, use this link: http://107.6.144.234/donations/

Donations may be made electronically or by check.

Thank you warmly for your help!

The elections deadline for ACASA board candidates has been extended to Friday, June 9th, at 5pm EST. Members, please vote now!