Welcome to the website of APAD, the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development. APAD is a network promoting dialogue between African and European researchers in the social sciences as well as with developments agents. Initially devoted to the empirical studies of interactions brought about by development, APAD’s approach has evolved towards research regarding social change on the African continent in its broadest sense.

In Memoriam: Professor Gerti Hesseling

Unfortunately Gerti Hesseling, former director of the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, passed away on March 21, 2009. In Memoriam.

APAD Bulletin

The new APAD bulletin no. 27-28 has just been published: Violences Sociales & Exclusions: Le développement social de l'Afrique en question, edited by Jacky Bouju & Mirjam de Bruijn.

APAD Conference

From 20-23rd January 2010 the APAD conference 'Engaging anthropology in development and social change: practices, discourses and ethics' in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, will take place. The deadline for submitting abstracts is now closed. Call for papers