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Conferences

ISITA's conferences and workshops, often organized collaboratively with other institutions,  bring together scholars from around the world to foster intellectual exchange and engage the public about Islam in Africa, past and present.  Explore the programs from some of ISITA's recent major conferences below.

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Islam in Africa in Question: History, Trends, and Emerging Perspectives

June 3-5, 2026, Paris

An international conference in collaboration with L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

View the conference program. 

 

 

 

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Touching, Seeing, Hearing, Reading:  Voyage into Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa 

November 16-18, 2023, Hamburg

An international workshop in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, and the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern.

View the conference program.