To date, there have been eleven international conferences of the Mande Studies Association:
The first International Conference on Manding Studies: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 30 June-3 July 1972 (fourteen years before the founding of the Mande Studies Association). Read more about the conference in the MANSA Kibaru Supplement 1, 2023.
The second International Conference on Mande Studies: Bamako, Mali, 15-19 March, 1993 (at the Islamic Cultural Center).
The third International Conference on Mande Studies: Leiden, The Netherlands, 20-24 March, 1995 (at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde).
The fourth International Conference on Mande Studies: Serrekunda, The Gambia, 13-17 June, 1998 (at the Senegambia Beach Hotel)
The fifth International Conference on Mande Studies: Leiden, The Netherlands 17-21 June, 2002 (at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde)
The sixth International Conference on Mande Studies: Conakry and Kankan, Guinea, 20-26 June, 2005. (at the Novotel Conakry and the University of Kankan)
The seventh International Conference on Mande Studies was held at ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal: 23-27 June, 2008. View the Lisbon Conference Schedule.
The eighth International Conference on Mande Studies was held in Bamako, Mali: 27-29 June, 2011. Download the conference program. (Word document)
The ninth International Conference on Mande Studies was held at Ran Hôtel, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso: 18-22 June, 2014. Download the conference program.
The tenth International Conference of the Mande Studies Association was held the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB), Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire: 2-6 August, 2017. Download the conference program.
The eleventh International Conference on Mande Studies was held digitally at Uppsala University's Forum for Africa Studies, Sweden: 16-19 June 2021. Download the conference program.
The twelfth International Conference on Mande Studies was held at the Institut des Sciences Humaines in Bamako, Mali, 26-29 June 2024. Download the conference program.