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10/10/2024

Join us on Friday, October 11, from 12-2pm ET, in-person and online, for a pre-launch opening discussion on to be free..., a multimodal experience of art, music, and text, that calls us to pause and reflect on the social foundations of democracy and the pursuit of justice and civil rights in South Africa and the United States.

About the Exhibition:
Conceived as a multimodal experience of art, music and text, to be free is a call to pause and reflect on the social foundations of democracy and the pursuit of justice and civil rights in South Africa and the United States of America. Drawn from the project’s founding concept, Petitions for Freedom, Liberation and Democracy, this exhibition is aimed at sounding the ideas and concepts of liberation, freedom, and democracy as reflected in art. Conceptualized in collaboration by Africa Office of Harvard University Center for African Studies and University of Fort Hare, this exhibition is curated by Nomusa Makhubu based on the art collection of 20th century art by South African Black artists under the stewardship of the National Heritage and Cultural Studies (NAHECS) Centre at the University of Fort Hare. Through this collection, we map the trans-Atlantic pan-African networks of solidarity between Black artists in (south) Africa and the USA.

In-Person Attendance Registration: https://forms.gle/eDNt785oCPAhBxyM9

Virtual Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OZ74vz7vSy6f8GHgz28TPg (The virtual portion of the event will take place from 12-1pm ET)

04/23/2024

We invite you to join the us on Thursday, April 25, at 10am ET | 4pm CAT, for a conversation on EdTech Solutions for Africa. We will explore the role and impact of technology in improving access to and the quality of education in African societies, as well as factors that policymakers must consider in designing national and regional policies. Presenters: Stacey Brewers, Antonie Chigeda, Paul Atherton, and Rapelang Rabana. Moderator: Harvard SEAS Professor Demba Ba. Registration Link: https://lnkd.in/eejTmSeW.

04/03/2024

We are excited to share profiles of select Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program (HSAFP) fellows. We are accepting applications for the 2025-2026 cohort until April 15, 2024. Visit the Harvard University Center for African Studies website to learn more about funded Harvard programs as well as eligibility and application requirements: https://lnkd.in/dpwsTaG

Fellow: Bavesh Pillay, HLS, LLM
Credit: Harvard Center for African Studies Africa Office in collaboration with Naomi Thompson Consulting

10/23/2023

The Africa Office of the Harvard Center for African Studies (CAS) invites you to REGISTER for the inaugural Technology and Innovation in Africa Webinar on October 26, at 10am ET | 4pm CAT.

TO ATTEND THE WEBINAR, PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ND-X6sj9R1G3V6x9wXEEjQ

A panel of speakers will examine the role and impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for economic development, including the risks and tradeoffs policymakers must consider in designing national and regional policies. Professor Demba Ba, the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, will moderate the panel conversation followed by a Q&A from the virtual audience.

10/19/2023

The Africa Office of the Harvard Center for African Studies (CAS) invites you to REGISTER for the inaugural Technology and Innovation in Africa Webinar on October 26, at 10am ET | 4pm CAT.

REGISTER TO ATTEND THE WEBINAR HERE: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ND-X6sj9R1G3V6x9wXEEjQ.

A panel of speakers will examine the role and impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for economic development, including the risks and tradeoffs policymakers must consider in designing national and regional policies. Professor Demba Ba, the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, will moderate the panel conversation followed by a Q&A from the virtual audience.

08/15/2023

The Harvard University Center for African Studies (CAS) welcomes Professor Ruth L. Okediji as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director. The Center acknowledges and thanks Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong for his exceptional leadership in taking CAS to great heights over the past years.

03/27/2023

Join us TODAY, Monday, March 27th for the African Studies Workshop from 4pm-6pm ET (In-person and Online!)

The African Studies Workshop at Harvard continues this year with a new and exciting schedule of presenters. The presenters' papers explore Africa’s changing place in the world - and the new economies, legalities, socialities, and cultural forms that have arisen there.

This week's workshop is entitled: "Nostalgia and Selving in Heritage Conservation: Suakin Island in Erdogan’s Ottoman Imaginary" - Presented by Lina Benabdallah

Lina Benabdallah is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Reviews, The Journal of International Relations and Development, Third World Quarterly, African Studies Quarterly, Project on Middle East Political Science, as well as in public facing outlets such as Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and Foreign Policy. Dr. Benabdallah was a Johns Hopkins University China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) Research Associate, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Africa Program and is currently a co-editor of PS: Political Science and Politics.

Discussant: Professor Cemal Kafadar is the Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University and the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

We encourage all of our local friends and students to join us in-person at CAS. Please click here to register to attend online: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuduuvpjsoGtf0hRr8-VwgrrRiOXoFJVbd

03/24/2023

We are now accepting applications for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program!

Deadline: 15 April 2023, 11:59 EST.

Apply Now: https://africa.harvard.edu/application.

To find out more about the HSAFP fellowship here: https://africa.harvard.edu/south-africa-fellowship-program

03/03/2023

We are now accepting applications for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program!

Deadline: 15 April 2023, 11:59 EST.

Apply Now: https://africa.harvard.edu/south-africa-fellowship-program

02/28/2023

We are now accepting applications for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program!

Deadline: 15 April 2023, 11:59 EST.

Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/dpwsTaG

02/24/2023

We are now accepting applications for the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program!

Deadline: 15 April 2023, 11:59 EST.

Apply Now: https://africa.harvard.edu/south-africa-fellowship-program

02/15/2023

Join us on Thursday, February 16 from 10am - 11:30am ET for a webinar examining the place of African textiles and fashion in the global context. The panel discussion will shed an important light on how to position the twin industries of textile and fashion as drivers of economic growth in Africa, and to release these sectors from the colonial structures that have hampered them from flourishing. Panelists bring their mix of expertise in policy, finance, design, and operations to offer important and diverse perspectives to this conversation centered around the $3 trillion dollar global fashion industry.

Panelists include:
Gavin Rajah - GAVIN RAJAH
Diarra Bousso - Diarrablu
Amb. Rama Yade
Khanyi Mashimbye

Moderated by:
Rabi Yansané
Learn More & Register: https://africa.harvard.edu/event/going-global-african-textiles-and-fashion

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