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The Center for African Studies Launches the Artist-in-Residence Program

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As part of the Harvard Center for African Studies' African Arts Initiative, Leverett House has partnered with the Center for African Studies to bring the inaugural cohort of the Artist-in-Residence Program. For the two next weeks, visual artist Nelson...

The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice Keynote - Koyo Kouoh

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Koyo Kouoh is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town since May 2019. Prior to this appointment, she was the founding Artistic Director of RAW Material Company; a centre for art...

Mondays at Beinecke: Ethiopic Manuscripts and Global Books with Kristen Herdman

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Kristen Herdman is a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies program. Her research interests are rooted in art historical approaches to manuscript studies, with special attention to fifteenth-century medieval devotional books and the complex relationship...

The Boma of Africa - A Virtual Festival

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The Boma of Africa festival is a series of insightful convenings to drive the African integration agenda through a strategic high-level engagement between the continental governance institutions, represented by the AU Commission, and the African private...

Art Informs Art: Conversation and Concert

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Art Informs Art: Conversation and Concert Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 5:30pm in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS South), for a unique opportunity to hear from acclaimed international artist Nelson Makamo and jazz musician and composer Mandisi Dyantyis for...

MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Cultural Force

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Register here Featuring: Marie-Cécile Zinsou – President of Fondation Zinsou Marie-Cécile Zinsou is a French- Beninese art historian and entrepreneur, She is president of the Fondation Zinsou, founded in 2005 in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, West Africa...

Exhibit: Looking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco

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February 8th, 2019 – March 31st, 2019 | Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7 @ 6:00-8:00 p.m. Stone Gallery 855 Commonwealth Avenue Tuesday–Sunday from 12 to 6 p.m. Looking Out, Looking In: Contemporary Artists from Morocco brings together seven...

Richard Smallwood: Music, Activism and Well-Being

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For four decades, gospel artist Richard Smallwood has been one of the most popular inspirational artists in the music business, with classic tunes such as Total Praise, Center of My Joy and I Love the Lord. His songs have been recorded by Whitney Houston...

African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent

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On December 5, 2019, the Harvard Center for African Studies hosted a lecture on African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent, which featured highlights from African Twilight, a fifteen-year study and visual homage to the vanishing...

Prestigious Award for the Harvard University Center for African Studies

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The annual Harvard Dean’s Distinction Award was bestowed on the Harvard Center for African Studies (CAS) at a high-profile event hosted at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 8 th, 2018. The award honors Harvard University’s highest...

Art Study Center Seminar: Painted Piety—The Art of Religious Devotion in Morocco

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In this seminar, Mounia Chekhab Aboudaya, curator for North Africa and Iberia at the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, and Rachel Parikh, the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will explore the religious and...

2024 Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa Awardees Announced

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Seven projects have been selected as the 2024 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, announced the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration...