I Tatti will offer two residential Fellowships during the 2023-2024 academic year for scholars from African nations whose work examines exchanges within and between the African continent and the wider Mediterranean world during the early modern period (14th - 17th centuries). Designed for scholars working on African artistic and architectural material (including those working in archaeology and anthropology) and made possible by a generous grant from the Getty Foundation, the fellowships seek to create and promote collaboration between scholars working in...

The Harvard University Center for African Studies (CAS) Africa Office conducted and successfully concluded its first Early Childhood Development (ECD) Management and Compliance Workshop on September 19-20, 2022. Over the two days, principals of 16 ECD centres from Kanana, Tembisa, in Gauteng convened at the Africa Office in Johannesburg for a workshop hosted in close collaboration with The Pink Forum. The goal of the workshop was to equip the...

Dr. Richard Appiah, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for African Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy and the Department of Psychology at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana, recently published a paper on the extant...

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard Center for African Studies, have announced the 2022 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa.

The Motsepe Fund was inaugurated in the 2020-21 academic year. After a very successful first year, the Motsepe Foundation generously doubled its commitment to the fund to include support for projects that fall within the STEAM rubric (the application of the arts and humanities to science, technology, engineering,...