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Past Conference Themes and Hosts
1974 1st Annual Conference. (No theme.) SUNY New Paltz
1975 2nd Annual Conference. (No theme.) Syracuse University
1976 3rd Annual Conference. (No theme.) Cornell University
1977 "The Applications of African Studies" SUNY Buffalo
1978 5th Annual Conference. (No theme.) Columbia University
1979 "Science of the Arts in the African World in Education" Rockefeller Plaza

  ( co-sponsored by the State Education Department )
 
1980 "African Presence in a World of Change" St. John's University
1981 "Critical Issues in African Affairs: Implications for the 80s SUNY Binghamton
1982 "Africa, Asia and the Americas" Albany Cultural Education Ctr.
1983 "Africa, The Diaspora and the New World Order" Fordham University
1984 "Africa and the World: Conflict and Cooperation" Syracuse University
1985 "Asia, Africa, and the Americas" University of Rochester
1987 "Africa and America: Bridging the Gap" Mercy College
1989 "Africa Faces the Future." SUNY New Paltz
1991 "Pan-Africanism: 1991 and Beyond" Iona-Seton College
1992 "Africa and the World" SUNY New Paltz at
Mohonk Mountain House

1993 "Cross Cultural Developments in Africa" Adirondack Community College
1994 "Positive Perspectives for the 21st Century" Cornell University
1995 "African Renaissance and Reconstruction" Hostos Community College
1996 "Understanding Contemporary Africa" NGOs and African Development Mercy College and the Rockefeller Archive Center
1997 "The African World in Transition" Russell Sage Colleges
1998 "Africa and the Challenge of Globalization" SUNY Binghamton
1999 "Africa and the African Diaspora in the 21st Century' SUNY Oswego
2000 "Africa and the African Diaspora in the New Millennium" SUNY Cortland
2001 "Human Condition: Global African Dimensions" SUNY Brockport
2002 "Digitizing the Discipline" New York City College of Technology
2003 "Transnational Discourses in the African World" Cornell University
2004 "Engaging Africana Studies: Production, Control and Dissemination of Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora" Eastern Connecticut State University
2005 "Global Africa and the Challenges of American Hegemony SUNY Binghamton
2006 "African Pessimism/African Optimism" SUNY New Paltz
2007 "African Peoples: The Past Fifty Years and Beyond" SUNY Plattsburgh
2008 "Africa in the 21st Century: Reconstruction or Re-Colonization" Cornell University