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The Carter Conference
For over 25 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. Since 2004, the Center has (with the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences) appointed a Carter Faculty Fellow to serve as convener of the conference. Please check the links below for more information about the current Carter conference as well as previous conferences.
2012 - Health, Society & Development
2011 - African Independence: Cultures of Memory, Celebrations, & Contestations (convened by Alioune Sow & Brigitte Weltman-Aron)
2010 - Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing Strategies (convened by Dr. Brian Child)
2009 - African Creative Expressions: Mother Tongue & Other Tongues (convened by Dr. Akintunde Akinyemi)
2008 - Migrations In and Out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives (convened by Dr. Abdoulaye Kane & Dr. Todd Leedy)
2007 - African Visual Cultures: Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Regions (convened by Dr. Victoria Rovine)
2006 - Law, Politics, and Society in South Africa: The Politics of Inequality Then and Now (convened by Dr. R. Hunt Davis, Jr. and Dr. Winston Nagan)
2005 - States of Violence: The Conduct of War in Africa (convened by Dr. Luise White)
2004 - Movement (R)evolution: Contemporary African Dance (convened by Dr. Joan Frosch)
2003 - Dynamics of Islam in Contemporary Africa (convened by Dr. Leonardo Villalon
2002 - Zimbabwe in Transition: Resolving Land and Constitutional Crisis (convened by Dr. Todd Leedy)
2001 - Governance and Higher Education In Africa (convened by Dr. Peter Schmidt and Dr. Winston Nagan)
2000 - Renegotiating Nation and Political Community in Africa at the Dawn of the New Millennium
1999 - Aquatic Conservation and Management in Africa
1998 - Africa on Film and Video
1997 - Communication and Democratization in Africa
1995 - African Entrepreneurship
1994 - Transition in South Africa
1993 - Africa’s Disappearing Past: The Erasure of Cultural Patrimony
1992 - Sustainability in Africa: Integrating Concepts
1991 - Involuntary Migration and Resettlement in Africa
1990 - Health Issues in Africa
1989 - Structural Adjustment and Transformation: Impacts on African Women Farmers
1988 - Human Rights in Africa
1987 - The Exploding Crisis in Southern Africa
1986 - The African Food Crisis: Prospects for a Solution
1984-85 - SADCC’s Bid for Independence from South Africa: Will it Succeed?
