AC21 Event Timeline
This timeline lists AC21 events that we can document with reasonable confidence, cross-checked against the fact-checked detail pages for the International Forum, Student World Forum, Special Project Fund and Legacy Symposium. It is not an exhaustive record.
A note on this page: an earlier version of this timeline listed 37 events, including a full year-by-year chronology of Student World Forum and International Graduate School editions and numerous steering committee and general assembly meetings. We have not been able to independently verify the great majority of those entries, and the previous entry for the 2022 Student World Forum was factually incorrect. Unverified entries have been removed rather than corrected where we had no reliable basis for a correction. What remains is shorter, but each entry is either backed by a source cited on its detail page or, for administrative meetings, has been removed entirely for lack of any documentation we could find.
| Year | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1st International Forum (Founding Conference) | Nagoya, Japan |
| 2004 | 2nd International Forum | Sydney, Australia |
| 2006 | 3rd International Forum | Coventry, United Kingdom |
| 2008 | 4th International Forum | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
| 2009 | Special Project Fund launched | — |
| 2010 | 5th International Forum | Shanghai, China |
| 2012 | 6th International Forum | Adelaide, Australia |
| 2014 | 7th International Forum | Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| 2016 | 8th International Forum | Chemnitz, Germany |
| 2018 | 9th International Forum | Changchun, China |
| 2020 | 10th International Forum (online) | Bangkok, Thailand (online) |
| 2022 | 11th International Forum (20th anniversary) | Nagoya, Japan |
| 2022 | 7th Student World Forum (virtual, 18–31 July) | Nanjing University, China |
| 2024 | Legacy International Symposium (March 10–12) | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
For verified dates, themes and primary sources for each event, see the linked detail pages above. This timeline relies on those pages and the independent sources cited on them; it does not treat this site's own newsletter archive as a source, since that page has not yet been independently verified.