JUNE 23–25, 2026 • AGADIR, MOROCCO
THE FORGOTTEN
PAN-AFRICANISM
Re-Mapping North Africa onto the Pan-African World
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Center for Maghrib Studies - Arizona State University
CLAS Laboratory - Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir
Coordinated by
Chouki El Hamel & Curtis Austin (ASU)
Vaughn Rasberry (Stanford University)
Mounir Sanhaji (Université Ibn Zohr)
DETAILED PROGRAM
Conference Program
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Opening Session
Chair: Mounir Sanhaji
10:00 - 10:30
Institutional Welcome
- Dr. Nabil Hmina, President of Ibn Zohr University
- Dr. Abdelkhaleq Jayed, Dean of the Faculty
- Dr. Chouki El Hamel, Director of the Center for Maghrib Studies (Arizona State University)
- Dr. Moulay Abdessadek Ahl ben Taleb, Head of CLAS Laboratory
10:30 - 11:00
Opening Remarks
Chouki El Hamel, Curtis Austin, Vaughn Rasberry, Mounir Sanhaji
Panel 1:
Historical Foundations and Political Visions
Session 1 — Chair: Kai Mora
11:00 Amir Idris (Fordham University, USA) - Whose Africa? Whose Pan-Africanism?
11:30 Cord Whitaker (Wellesley College, USA) - St. Maurice, the Harlem Renaissance, and Africa's North-South Divide
12:00 Coffee Break
Session 2 — Chair: Yassine Ait Hammou
12:15 Abdelaziz El Amrani (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco) - Seventy Years of Independence: Pan-African Islamic Origins of the Moroccan Nationalist Movement
12:45 Sara Hussein (UCLA) - Cairo's Pan-Africanists: The Du Bois Legacy in Egypt
13:15 Lunch Break
Session 3 — Chair: Hassane Oudadene
14:30 Patrick Manning (University of Pittsburgh, USA) - The Maghrib: Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora
15:00 Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - Convergences and Connivances: Black Aesthetics and Tamazghan Visuality in Contemporary Art
15:30 Ysé Auque-Pallez (University of Bordeaux) - Pan-African Morocco and Transatlantic Solidarities (1955-1969)
16:00 Global Panel Discussion (End of Panel 1)
Dinner at Zephyr Hotel
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Panel 2:
Intellectual Networks and Epistemic Encounters
Session 1 — Chair: Mohamed Ouhemmou
09:00 Solange Ashby (UCLA) - Alain Anselin: A Pan-Africanist Voice from the Caribbean
09:30 Arlena Buelli (University of Lausanne) - Race and Civilization in Anticolonial Print Circulations
10:00 May Kosba (Rutgers University) - Writing Africa for Africans
10:30 Coffee Break
Session 2 — Chair: Carolina Mendoza
10:45 Alex & Aretha Asakitikpi (University of Johannesburg) - Cultural Pan-Africanism and the Reclamation of Africa’s Epistemic Sovereignty
11:15 Jonathan Harris (Dublin City University) - Re-Mapping North Africa into the Pan-African World through Diplomatic Training
11:45 Abdelaziz Nouhaidi (Hassan II University) - Repositioning Morocco within a Decolonized Pan African World
12:15 Global Panel Discussion (End of Panel 2)
12:30 Lunch Break
Panel 3:
Literary Memory and Trans-Saharan Connections
Session 1 — Chair: Lahoussine Hamdoune
13:30 S.O.Y. Keita (Smithsonian Institution) - Genealogical Connections Across African Regions
14:00 Dahlia El-Zein (Northwestern University, Qatar) - Senghor, Arabité, and the Lebanese in Senegal
14:30 Griffin Berlin (Northwestern University) - Mapping Pan-Africa in Contemporary Maghrebi Art
15:00 Coffee Break
Session 2 — Chair: Sophia Mo
15:15 Nassima Erraiss (Ibn Zohr University) - Pan-Africanism and the History of Slavery in Tahar Ben Jelloun
15:45 Alexis Trouillot (University of Kansas) - What Can Science Do for African Liberation?
16:15 Global Panel Discussion (End of Panel 3)
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Panel 4:
Gendered Solidarities and Pan-African Networks
Session 1 — Chair: El Batoul Majbar
09:15 Sophia Mo (University of Michigan) - Moving Productive Bodies: African Women in Révolution Africaine
09:45 Oyeyemi Modupeola (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) - North African Women, PAWO, and Pan-African Historiography
10:15 Elizabeth Marie Perego (Appalachian State University) - Algerian Women and Pan-African Solidarities, 1954-1990
10:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 — Chair: May Kosba
11:00 Myriam Cottias - Andrée Blouin and Pan-African Commitment
11:30 Hassane Oudadene & Lahoussine Hamdoune (Ibn Zohr University) - Moroccan Gnaouiat: Gendered Music, Spirituality, and Transgenerational Memory
12:00 Global Panel Discussion (End of Panel 4)
Panel 5:
Aesthetic Architectures and Sonic Pan-Africanisms
Session 1 — Chair: Rachid Ait Abdelmoumen
12:30 Eric Schmidt (Babson College) - Pan-African Affinities and Trans-Saharan Resonances in Tuareg Guitar
13:00 Kai Mora (Harvard University) - Gift of the Gnawa: Memory, Music, and Pan-African Networks
13:30 Lunch Break
Session 2 — Chair: Mohamed Hamdouni
14:30 Malaika Shuck (Northwestern University) - Architectures of Pan-African Worldmaking: Dakar to Algiers
15:00 Youri Hammache-Sigour (Centre Pompidou & INA) - A Pan-African Utopia? The First Cultural Pan-African Festival of Algiers, 1969
15:30 Sara Mejdoubi (International University of Rabat) - Pan-African Discourse and Its Imaginaries
16:00 Final Panel Discussion (End of Panel 5)
Closing Session
17:00 - 17:15 Conference Recommendations and Closing Remarks
Registration Closed
Registration for this conference is now closed.
Thank you for your interest!
