A panel on Secessionism in Africa will be organised by Jordi Tomas and Wolfgang Zeller and co-funded by ABORNE as part of the Nordic Africa Days conference, to be held in Åbo/Turku on the southwestern coast of Finland on September 30th and October 1st 2010.

The conference website and call for papers are here.

The Fourth ABORNE Annual Meeting will take place in Basel, Swizerland, 8 to 11 September 2010.

The conference theme will be ‘Cross-Border Trade in Africa’.

A call for papers (deadline 30 May 2010) is here.

In conjunction with this conference, ABORNE is offering two Exchange Visit Grants for borderland scholars to work for 2 months at the hosting institution, the Centre for African Studies of Basel University.

The call for applications (deadline 28 February 2010) is here. 

The First ABORNE Summer School will be organised by the University of Bayreuth and takes place in the medieval castle of Thurnau, Germany, from July 26 to 30.

The deadline for submitting applications is 15 March 2010.

The call for applications can be found here.

The application form is here. 

A closed workshop titled "Bringing the Margins Back in - War Making and State Making in the Borderlands" will be organised on February 12-14 by Timothy Raeymaekers from the Conflict Research Group, Ghent University. ABORNE is co-funding the event.

The Third ABORNE Annual Meeting took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 10 to 14, 2009, on

The original call for papers is here.

The draft programme is here.

Call for Proposals - ABORNE 2009 Regional Workshop

As part of its Research Networking Programme (RNP) under the European Science Foundation (ESF) ABORNE has funding for altogether 7 Regional Workshops from 2009 to 2013.
ABORNE now invites applications for the first workshop, to be held during 2009.

Please read more here.

Please follow the links for the program and poster of the second annual meeting of ABORNE, 26 - 28 July 2008 in Bayreuth, Germany.