Register to attend the conference. You can download the FULL PRELIMINARY programme here.
Creative Economies in Africa PhD and ECR Annual Conference 2025
This year, we have planned 3 days of research exchange and discussion online and in person. Register to take part to the conference, whether in person or online.
9th JULY ONLINE CONFERENCE. To attend the online conference via Zoom, please REGISTER here.
Programme Overview:
- 9.30-10.00 Conference introduction and welcome
- 10.00-11.00 Session 1: AI and Digital Futures: perspectives from Africa
- 11.00-11.40 Session 2: Focus on Nollywood
- 12.00-13.00 Session 3: Africa fashion: trade, entrepreneurship, and cultures
- 14.30-15.30 Session 4: Cultural intermediaries: between diplomacy and cultural opportunities
- 16.00-17.00 Session 5: African women and creative and cultural work: challenges and opportunities
10th JULY 2025 IN-PERSON CONFERENCE CULTURAL PROGRAMME
On the 10th of July we will host a screening and discussion of the project: Tropical Ontology.
The event will take place at King’s College London (3-6pm). It is an in-person event only, register to attend via Eventbrite.
Tropical Ontology by Emlohi Iruobe, Adey Omotade and Sechaba Maape explores the equator as humanity’s original ontological home. Through AI-generated architectures, Yoruba-inspired soundscapes, and ritual video works, the project weaves together themes of climate, rhythm, and identity in a 4-part film series. It challenges colonial spatial logics and imagines a conceptual return to the warmth, breeze, and resonance of the tropics, offering mediation as its central intellectual contribution.
11th JULY 2025 IN-PERSON and ONLINE CONFERENCE SESSION.
King’s College London, 9.30am-4.45pm
Register HERE to attend the event the 11th of July (whether IN PERSON or ONLINE). Registration for in-person attendance closes on the 29th June 2025; online registration will remain open until 10th of July.
You can download the schedule of papers presented, including Prof. Polo Moji’s keynote address on “African Literary Cities: Hubs, Maps and Urban Literary Ecologies,” below.