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.
GWENDOLEN M. CARTER CONFERENCE 2023
The Sports Africa Network and the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida are pleased to announce
The 15th Sports Africa Conference and 38th Gwendolen M. Carter Conference: Inclusive and Exclusive Communities: Minorities, Women, and Youth in African Sport
23-25 March 2023
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL USA
PDF Inclusive and Exclusive Communities: Minorities, Women & Youth in African Sport
Register for Keynote speaker Joakim Noah, UF Basketball Legend & NBA Africa Investor
Thursday, 23 March @ 3:45
Registration Link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31vyuCW4QxaEVYkgfbdGOQ#/registration
Anyone who lives in or studies contemporary Africa recognizes how sport runs through so many aspects of daily and associational life. Yet in nearly every circumstance—past and present—there are individuals or groups that struggle for sporting access, support, and recognition. The 2023 Sports Africa/Carter Conference seeks papers that illuminate and interrogate multiple dimensions of these struggles, particularly those of minorities, women, and youth. The conference will feature thematic panels and a final session comprising a pedagogical workshop that aims to integrate sport with various African studies curricula. Organizers will also select a set of conference papers for consideration as a special issue in the African Studies Quarterly published at the University of Florida.
About the Sports Africa Network
The mission of the Sports Africa Network is to make African sport studies an interdisciplinary, inclusive, accessible, and integral part of the global conversation and scholarship on sports among practitioners and academics. With members from academic institutions as well as professional and non-profit organizations in Africa, Europe, and the United States, the Sports Africa conference is the preeminent event focused on African sports studies. Ohio University hosted the conference from 2004 to 2014. These first editions addressed a variety of themes such as gender, health, communication, politics, and globalization. The University of the Free State in South Africa hosted the conference for the first time at an African institution in 2017, followed by the University of Zambia in 2018, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal in 2019, and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa in 2021 (online). The conference is now the flagship activity of the Sports Africa Network, an affiliate organization of the U.S. African Studies Association. It continues to advance the study of African sports worldwide.
Please check the links below for more information about previous Carter Conferences.
- 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?