Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

AEGIS is a research network of European centres on African studies in the fields of social science and humanities.

AEGIS' main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.

AEGIS was founded in 1991 by African studies centres in Bayreuth, Bordeaux, Leiden, London, and Uppsala.

AEGIS continues to host thematic conferences (not to be confused with the ECAS gatherings, detailed below).

[1] In the new millennium, the organization of European Conferences on African Studies (ECAS), open to everybody, became the central activity.

Opening of the ECAS Conference 2019, McEwan Hall , University of Edinburgh . On stage from the left Mamadou Diouf ( Columbia University ), Thomas Molony (University of Edinburgh) and Amanda Hammar (AEGIS president, Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen).