Below you will find upcoming and recent calls for publications, conferences, and workshops that pertain to China-Africa relations, as well as to related topics. This list is updated regularly.
68th ASA Annual Meeting Call for Proposals “Crossing Boundaries and Recovering Intellectual Traditions” November 20th-22nd, 2025. Deadline March 16, 2025.
Joint Hong Kong-Kiel-Göttingen Workshop “China in the Global South: Consequences for Economic Development” March 28th, 2025. Deadline February 15th, 2025.
NYU Shanghai 6th Young Scholars Symposium “Asia and the World in Critical Times” April 17th-19th, 2025. Deadline January 6th, 2024.
Cardiff University workshop “Gender, Diplomacy, and Global Connections in Modern Asia” June 10th, 2025. Deadline December 8th, 2024.
Lingnan University-CA/AC Research Network Conference and Symposium, “Evolving Dynamics of Africa-China Relations and Re-imagining the Future” May 15th-16th, 2025. Deadline November 15th, 2024.
The Africa-China Research Network in Taiwan, “Taiwan in the Era of Africa-China Relations: Hidden Histories and Futures" April 25th, 2025. Deadline October 31st, 2024.
University of Colorado Boulder, workshop: “A Feminist Lens on Global China: Perspectives from Africa,” March 7th, 2025. Deadline October 25th, 2024.
The 2025 CA/AC Early Career Scholars' Workshop, January 9th-10th, 2025. Deadline October 19th, 2024.
IIAS Africa-Asia, "A New Axis of Knowledge Conference-Festival" June 11-14, 2025, Dakar. Deadline October 1st, 2024.
Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference, March 13-16, 2025, Columbus. Deadline August 7th, 2024.
International Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) Regional Conference, November, 7th - 8th 2024, Universitas Kristen Maranatha. Deadline June 30th, 2024.
Centre for Global Finance (SOAS), ODI and the African Economic Research Consortium, "China-Africa economic interactions: past, present and future" 12-13 September, 2024, London. Deadline July 28th, 2024.
Association for Asian Studies, “Global China” Dissertation Workshop at AAS-in-Asia, July 11-12, 2024. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Deadline: April 19, 2024.
Call for chapters in an edited volume, Sino Queer Translation: Sexualities across Languages, Cultures, and Media, edited by Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma.
Special issue: Global China Pulse “Researching Global China”
Special issue: Global South Review “Decolonizing International Relations: The Enduring Legacy of the Bandung Conference”
Call for chapters in an edited volume, Eastern Africa-China Connections: Cultural Flows, Epistemic Exchanges and Quotidian Articulations of the Popular, edited by Oduor Obura and James Ogone.
Special issue: International Relations (Uluslararası İlişkiler) “China and the Asia-Pacific Century in International Politics”
Special issue: Transcultural Studies “Sino-Foreign Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges in the New Era”
New book series: University of Pittsburgh Press “Afrasia: Contours, Crossings, Connections”
Special issue: Journal of Global Diaspora and Media "Global South Diasporic Voices: Rethinking Praxis and Theory in Communication for Development"
Special issue: Journal of International Development "The Political Economy of Receiving Foreign Aid"
Special Issue: Journal of Global Mobility "Global Mobility and Digitalization"