SAfA 2025
The INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSION PORTAL IS NOW OPEN!
Individual Presentations (Oral and Poster) can be submitted between Dec 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025.
Individual Presentation submission decision letters will be sent out in February, 2025.
The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA 2025) will take place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. The event, hosted by ICArEHB – Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, will be held from the 21st to the 26th of July 2025.
The SAfA 2025 theme, “Crossroads through Time,” highlights the Algarve region of southern Portugal as a nexus of different cultures from across North Africa, Europe, and around the world, each of which have contributed to the region’s history, language, and culture over millennia. This theme underscores both the positive outcomes and challenges of living in multicultural societies—a topic of increasing importance today amid global issues that are displacing millions of people worldwide via climate change, economic hardships, and conflict.
Important dates
- Session Submission: September 15 – October 31, 2024
- Session Submission Decision Letters: November 2024
- Individual Submission: December 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025
- Individual Submission Decisions Letters: February 2025
- Travel Grant Applications: February, 2025 – March, 2025
- Travel Grant Decision Letters: April 2025
Days until conference start
For any inquiries about the conference, please contact ecfisher@ualg.pt or safa2025@ualg.pt.