For over 30 years the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida has organized annual lectures or a conference in honor of the late distinguished Africanist scholar, Gwendolen M. Carter. Gwendolen Carter devoted her career to scholarship and advocacy concerning the politics of inequality and injustice, especially in southern Africa. She also worked hard to foster the development of African Studies as an academic enterprise. She was perhaps best known for her pioneering study The Politics of Inequality: South Africa Since 1948 and the co-edited four-volume History of African Politics in South Africa: From Protest to Challenge (1972-1977).
In the spirit of her career, the annual Carter lectures offer the university community and the greater public the perspectives of Africanist scholars on issues of pressing importance to the peoples and societies of Africa.
Coming Soon!
March 27-28, 2025
Please check the links below for more information about previous Carter Conferences.
- 2024 – CAS@60 New Directions in African Studies
- 2023 – Inclusive and Exclusive Communities: Minorities, Women & Youth in Africa Sport
- 2022 – Pasts for the Future of Pastoralism
- 2021 –Â Back to the Future: Choreographers Mobilizing Africa-sourced Futures in the (post) COVID Era
- 2020 –Â Shifting Momentum in African Agriculture through Research and Technologies
- 2019Â –Â ENERGY | AFRICA: from Technopolitics to Technofutures
- 2018Â –Â Text Meets Image, Image Meets Text: Sequences and Assemblages Out of Africa and Congo
- 2017 – Â On the Edge: What Future for the African Sahel?
- 2016Â – Tropics of Discipline: Crime and Punishment in Africa
- 2015 –Â Schools of Architecture & Africa: Connecting Disciplines in Design and Development
- 2014 –Â Kongo Atlantic Dialogues
- 2013 –Â The Politics of Permanent Flux: State-Society Relations in the Horn of Africa
- 2012 –Â Health, Society & Development In Africa
- 2011 –Â African Independence: Cultures of Memory, Celebrations & Contestations
- 2010 –Â Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing Strategies
- 2009 –Â African Creative Expressions: Mother Tongue & Other Tongues
- 2008 –Â Migrations In and Out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives
- 2007 –Â African Visual Cultures: Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Regions
- 2006 –Â Law, Politics, and Society in South Africa: The Politics of Inequality Then and Now
- 2005 –Â States of Violence: The Conduct of War in Africa
- 2004 –Â Movement (R)evolution: Contemporary African Dance
- 2003Â –Â Dynamics of Islam in Contemporary Africa
- 2002 –Â Zimbabwe in Transition: Resolving Land and Constitutional Crisis
- 2001 –Â Governance and Higher Education in Africa
- 2000 –Â Renegotiating Nation and Political Community in Africa at the Dawn of the New Millennium
- 1999 –Â Aquatic Conservation and Management in Africa
- 1998 –Â Africa on Film and Video
- 1997 –Â Communication and Democratization in Africa
- 1995 –Â African Entrepreneurship
- 1994 –Â Transition in South Africa
- 1993 –Â Africa’s Disappearing Past: The Erasure of Cultural Patrimony
- 1992 –Â Sustainability in Africa: Integrating Concepts
- 1991 –Â Involuntary Migration and Resettlement in Africa
- 1990 –Â Health Issues in Africa
- 1989 –Â Structural Adjustment and Transformation: Impacts on African Women Farmers
- 1988 –Â Human Rights in Africa
- 1987 –Â The Exploding Crisis in Southern Africa
- 1986 –Â The African Food Crisis: Prospects for a Solution
- 1984-85 – Â SADCC’s Bid for Independence from South Africa: Will it Succeed?