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Preliminary Program of LSA 2026
The diversity and expansiveness of our 340 panels reflect the current landscape of knowledge about Lagos, Nigeria, and Africa. Audiences will choose from 15 professional development workshops on book and journal publishing, women in academia, AI and teaching pedagogy, fellowship application and grant writing, and graduate school application and experience, among others; roundtables on 30 books that are at the cutting edge of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; film screenings; theatre and dance performances. Dozens of panels on original paper presentations offer new perspectives on a spectrum of fields and subfields.
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WITH 340 panels in 2026, the LSA Conference remains the biggest academic gathering in Nigeria and one of the biggest in global African studies. LSA 2025 featured 255 panels. This new expansion is neither meaningless nor a cosmetic one, but a reflection of the superlatively creative manner that scholars, especially the early and mid-careers, are imagining knowledge in response to major shifts in Africa’s political, cultural, and economic landscapes. And the expanded access the LSA is granting to scholars and practitioners across the world to showcase their work.
The diversity and expansiveness of our 340 panels reflect the current landscape of knowledge about Lagos, Nigeria, and Africa. Audiences will choose from 15 professional development workshops on book and journal publishing, women in academia, AI and teaching pedagogy, fellowship application and grant writing, and graduate school application and experience, among others; roundtables on 30 books that are at the cutting edge of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; film screenings; theatre and dance performances. Dozens of panels on original paper presentations offer new perspectives on a spectrum of fields and subfields.
To facilitate professional networking and help participants to maximize the gains of the conference, all paper presenters will receive breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the five-day event.
All the 340 sessions of LSA 2026 will be accessible, free of charge, to the audience attending virtually and physically because of the unpaid labor and intellectual investment of LSA members, journal and book acquisition editors, and senior scholars facilitators; infrastructure support of Trinity University; and funding from Florida International University Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs, Yale University Council on African Studies, University of Michigan African Studies Center, Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures at Queen’s University, the Tamar Golan Africa Center at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Kansas African Studies Center (University of Kansas), Boston University Center for African Studies, and 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 2026, here: https://static1.squarespace.com/…/Preliminary+Program.pdf
