43rd National Council for Black Studies Conference
March 6-9, 2019
New Orleans, LA

Join us at the DoubleTree by Hilton in the heart of New Orleans for the 43rd annual conference. 

REGISTRATION open NOW!
You must be a current member to receive the membership discount.  All non-members will be charged the difference before receiving a registration packet.  Please note, our annual membership period is between the dates of July 1 -June 30th.

Book your rooms at the Doubletree by Hilton and receive special NCBS conference rate.

Call for Conference Papers

Black Studies at 50: Sankofa Remembrance, Continuous Renewal and Transformative Practice

The NCBS is accepting abstracts for panel sessions, individual paper presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, poster presentations, and town hall meetings that explore the Black experience locally, nationally, and/or globally from a variety of perspectives. Of particular interest this year, are presentations that comparatively explore these experiences, as well as those that examine the continuous renewal and transformative pracitces throughout the discipline of Africana/Black Studies using multi-layered frameworks and methodologies.  Papers that incorporate various combinations of race/nationality, class, gender, and sexuality, through the lens of but not limited to Afrocentric, cross and multicultural, diasporic, womanist, post-colonial, post-modernist or transnational interpretative schemes are welcomed.

Send a 150-400 word abstract for a panel. Each panelist will need to submit their panel subject and abstract. The panel chair submits the topic and panel participants. Individual paper and poster presentations are also welcome. For roundtable discussions submit a 150-400 word abstract that explores the discussion topic.

*The deadline to submit your abstract is January 22nd, 2019.

** It is strongly encouraged that participants complete the 2019 conference registration process in order to expedite a response to your abstract submission.

 Please submit your NCBS session proposals through our online conference management system at All Academic

Inquiries about the 2019 call for conference papers should be e-mailed to submissions@ncbsonline.org

We're in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture! Click NCBS Collection to see some of the historical artifacts documenting our place in African American history.

The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) is the leading organization of Black Studies professionals in the world.  For over 40 years our members have been at the forefront of driving the development of Black/Africana Studies as a respected academic discipline.  Our commitment to putting theory into practice, however, has also led us to the front lines of community issues throughout the African Diaspora.  Our guiding philosophy is that education should engender both academic excellence and social responsibility.

Our members include top scholars, community leaders and students focused on a variety of issues related to the African World experience.

The "Ankh Maat Wedjau" Honor Society is a non-secret, non-profit organization which promotes scholarly study, research, publication and other scholarly activity in the field of Africana Studies among students at academic institutions, and among academic professionals in the field of Africana studies. See the list of our newest society members inducted at the 2016 NCBS Annual Conference.