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Preliminary Program of LSA 2024
June 25 - July 29
From The Lagos Studies Association
The Preliminary Program of LSA 2024
With 200 panels in 2024, the LSA Conference remains the biggest academic gathering in Nigeria and one of the biggest on the African continent. LSA 2023 featured 137 panels.
For five days, between June 25 and 29, scholars and practitioners from all the continents of the world will converge, physically and virtually, in Lagos to participate in the 8th Annual Lagos Studies Association conference.
Our unprecedented growth is expected and well-coordinated. The LSA Conference has become a one-stop arena for serious scholarship and intellectual community building for scholars working on Nigeria. 80 percent of the panels are organized sessions. This aids compactness, making the 2024 program our best to date.
The diversity and expansiveness of our 200 panels reflect the current landscape of knowledge about Lagos, Nigeria, and Africa. Audiences will choose from over a dozen professional development workshops on book and journal publishing, academic job hunting, women in academia, teaching pedagogy, fellowship application and grant writing, and graduate school application and experience, among others; roundtables on 18 books that are at the cutting edge of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; three film screenings; a dance performance, and critical-celebratory panels on very senior scholars and canonical works that laid the foundation of newer studies. Dozens of panels on original paper presentations offer new perspectives on a spectrum of fields and subfields.
In addition, with generous funding from institutions across the world, LSA 2024 will feature three writing workshops and a Mentoring Program for Nigeria-based Women Graduate Students. At least 150 conference participants will receive free hotel accommodation, registration fee waiver/reimbursement, and transportation allowance. We anticipate feeding 500 paper presenters with breakfast, lunch, and dinner from June 25 to 29.
Lastly, all 200 sessions of LSA 2024 will be accessible, free of charge, to the audience attending virtually and physically at the University of Lagos because of the unpaid labor and intellectual investment of LSA members, journal and book acquisition editors, and senior scholars facilitators; infrastructure support of the University of Lagos; and funding from The British Academy, Florida International University, Yale University, Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures, Cadbury Endowment at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology (University of Birmingham), The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, University of Lagos, Kansas African Studies Center (University of Kansas), The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA-Nigeria).
The Final Program, to be released around June 10, will have Zoom links.
Download the Preliminary Program of LSA 2024, here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/630afcab31f1c61c6a285f5c/t/6641df10022b7c22b96628b9/1715592979134/Preliminary+Program.pdf