The Annual UT Austin Africa Conference convened by Prof. Toyin Falola under the Departmentof History of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) invites abstractsfor posters in any area of the history of migration, borders, immigration, movements, displacements, refugee crisis, and labor paradigms for the25th annual conference and its SILVER JUBILEE, to be held in Austin, Texas, USA, between April 1-5, 2026. If you are planning on attending the conference, we strongly encourage you to submit a poster and encourage students, undergraduates and graduates to submit posters too.
The UT Austin Africa 2026 Conference as part of its events marking the anniversary celebration for its SILVER JUBILEE welcomes posters for its call for submissions of papers in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, health, medicine, pharmacy and other disciplines on the multifaceted nature of African Movements, Migrations, Labor & Displacements and same for those of the Diaspora. The objective of this conference is to encourage conversations rooted in the rich and diverse knowledge of the African people, focusing on African epistemologies, ontologies, and concepts that have shaped the continent’s worldviews on Labor, Movements, (im)migration, and well-being. This conference will provide a platform to critically examine the construction, imagination, and conceptualization of African labor and Immigration paradigms; as well as with the history of peoples’ experiences of these and movements and crisis. We invite posters that engage with systems and traditions in all eras and regions of the world. We particularly encourage poster proposals examining relations and historical processes of power in (im)migration, refugee movement, labor, displacement and wellbeing. We welcome proposals that address the role of policy in reinforcing and challenging social hierarchies of race, gender, empire/nation, ability, and more; that build connections between the history of migration/displacement and related fields and disciplines; and that expand the methodological, thematic, chronological, and geographic diversity of the history of these fields and areas of thematic concerns.
Posters will be displayed during the poster session PARTICULARLY on Thursday April 2 and Saturday, April 4, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM and from 9:30 AM to 11:00 PM respectively. Presenters should be prepared to give a five-minute elevator talk covering their research. Posters should be no larger than 48 x 36 inches. Materials should be easily read at a distance of six feet. Each poster should include the title of the presentation (104-point size), the author(s) and affiliation(s) (72-point size). A point size of 18 or larger is recommended for any text on the poster. Many universities offer printing services. The UT Austin Africa 2026 Conference Committee particularly encourages posters that utilize creative means of engaging in public history and that can inspire conversations about the poster as a medium of historical engagement.
To submit an abstract for a poster, please notify us by completing your expression of interest by November 1st, 2025, by sending your details via the official conference email at: utausti...@gmail.com
All accepted poster presenters are expected to attend the poster session in person and register for the annual conference. There are no virtual options for posters.
