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The Harvard University Center for African Studies compiles Africa-related seminars, workshops, events, and conferences taking place in Cambridge, Boston, and Johannesburg, South Africa. We also include virtual Africa-related events and activities that are free and open to the public. The Center for African Studies will consider requests to host, coordinate, sponsor, or co-sponsor Africa-related events only if the event is supported by one of our faculty affiliates.

Please note that the calendar also includes events and activities hosted by organizations and entities not affiliated with the Harvard University Center for African Studies, and CAS makes no claim of endorsement or responsibility for the content of these activities. Please e-mail africa@harvard.edu if you would like us to consider sharing your event on our website.

Event Requests

The Center for African Studies will consider requests to host, coordinate, sponsor or co-sponsor Africa-related events only if the event is supported by one of our faculty affiliates. Event requests should be sent to the Associate Director by the sponsoring faculty member .

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Robert Hill: The Fall 2024 W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture

Oct 22, 2024
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4:00PM EDT
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The Library - Harvard Faculty Club
The Remains of the Name: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 and the Missing 'Egyptian Renaissance' that Fueled and Fashioned It Lecture by Robert Hill, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of History Reception to follow the lecture ORGANIZER: Hutchins Center...

Rediscovering Sculptures of King Menkaure at the Giza Pyramids

October 16, 2024
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6:00PM - 7:00PM EDT
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA and online
Join the Harvard Museum of Science and Culture for their free lecture event. Mark Lehner, Director and President, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. will be speaking. Between 1908–1910, Harvard’s George Reisner found some of the most iconic pieces of...

Annual Harvard Nigerian Students Association Gala

Oct 12, 2024
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5:30PM EDT
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52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Join the Harvard NSA for a weekend filled with dancing, music, and the best food in the West as they celebrate their annual Independence Day. Gala weekend is open to all undergraduate students (non-Nigerian students included!). Buy tickets HERE. Hosted by...

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October 11, 2024
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT
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Hybrid: Harvard Center for African Studies Lounge and Online via Zoom
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...

International Actors and Rule of Law Reform in the Global South: Lessons from Ethiopia

October 10, 2024
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12:15PM - 1:15PM EDT
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WCC 3007, Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School
Join the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School for a discussion on, "International Actors and Rule of Law Reform in the Global South: Lessons from Ethiopia". In many ways, the two speakers, Abduletif Kedir Idris and Abadir M. Ibrahim, spent their...

Creators from the African Diaspora

Oct 9, 2024
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6:00PM EDT
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Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join the Harvard Arts Museum for a discussion with Anna Arabindan-Kesson, from Princeton University, about some of the artistic networks and aesthetic imaginaries among African-diasporic artists and makers throughout the Americas from the 18th through the...

The Harvard Africa Mixer

October 9, 2024
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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CGIS South, Lower Concourse
Join us for our largest student event of the year! The Harvard Africa Mixer brings our student community together from across Harvard College and the graduate schools for a night of African food, music, dancing, and fellowship. Africa-related student...

CAS@ Harvard's Global Offices Information Table

October 9, 2024
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12:00PM - 3:00PM EDT
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Science Center Plaza
Did you know that Harvard has more than 20 offices worldwide? This information table, the first of its kind, will be staffed by the directors of Harvard’s offices in Greece, South Africa, Chile, China, and more, who will be available to answer questions...

Promoting the Role of Women in Leadership in Ethiopia

October 7, 2024
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3:00PM - 4:15PM EDT
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Virtual on Zoom
Join the HKS Women and Public Policy Program for their seminar where former Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin will discuss efforts to drive a gender equity agenda in Ethiopia's healthcare system, including reflecting on her own...