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Submission Guidelines

Please send a full proposal with:

A title and abstract (250 min – 500 max word limit).

You may submit a proposal for an individual paper, panel presentation, or roundtable discussion. If you would like to be a panelist on one of the round tables please submit a proposal explaining what you would like to discuss and send it to us.

Titles, institutional affiliation, email addresses, and names of all presenters.

Title and name of chair/facilitator, if you are providing your own.

The submissions will be open from Saturday, September 3, 2022, until October 26, 2022. The conference fee is 50.00 USD.  

Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule.

Please send completed proposals to: UCMAfricanaStudiesConference@gmail.com  

*Incomplete proposals will not be considered

Key dates are:

Call for Papers opens September 3rd, 2022
Call for Papers closes October 26th, 2022
Acceptance letters to be sent on November 10th 2022
Panels must register by November 21st, 2022 to be able to present their paper at the conference
Co-authors must register by November 21st, 2022 to be able to present their paper at the conference
Single authors should register by December 1stth to be able to present their paper at the conference