2019 Annual Conference in Lomé

Theme: “Urbanism at the Margins – Centering African Border Towns and Cities”

Date: September 16th-18th, 2019

Location: Lomé, Togo

The two-day conference will consider the full spectrum of urbanism from border towns to full-blown cities, with a view to shedding light on how the border setting shapes urban forms, livelihoods and aesthetics and the manner in which urban connectivity shapes the borderlands as lived spaces.

The final program of the ABORNE annual meeting is available here.

The call for papers is available here in English and Français.

For further details, click here

Panels and Papers

Available here.

Individual papers were generally works in progress at the time of the science meeting. These can be accessed via the link above, but please do not share or circulate publicly without explicit consent of the authors. If there are any questions, please contact the authors directly or approach the science meeting organiser for contact details.