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Adam Culver to Present at Makerere University Philosophy Symposium Series
Dr. Adam Culver, a Visiting Research Associate at MISR will present a paper at the Makerere University Philosophy Symposium Series of the Department of Philosophy in the School of Liberal and Performing Arts.
Title: Immanuel Kant, Johann Herder, and the Birth of Modern Racism.
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00 pm.
Venue: Humanities Resource Centre (Arts)
Six MISR MPhil/PhD students awarded SSRC Fellowships
We are proud to announce that six MISR MPhil/PhD students have been awarded various SSRC Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program fellowships for 2016-17.
Two fifth year students Yusuf Kajura and Semeneh Ayalew received the Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship, two fourth years Yonas Demisse and Haydee Bangerezako received the Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship and two third years Charles Prempeh and Yahya Sseremba received the Doctoral Dissertation proposal Fellowship.
Dr. Lyn Ossome gives talk on the structural dynamics of gendered and ethnicized violence in Kenya’s democratic transitions
Dr. Lyn Ossome was among fourteen scholars invited by the Yale Council on African Studies to speak at the Symposium on “The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Africa” on 26-27 February at Yale University.
Vacancy announcement for the position of Administrative Assistant
Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala
Reports To: Administrator
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David-Ngendo Tshimba on Lessons from Electioneering in the DRC
A DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ORDER AFTER VIOLENCE: LESSONS FROM ELECTIONEERING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
David-Ngendo Tshimba
ABSTRACT
Anneeth K. Hundle on Sovereignty and Sexuality in Urban Uganda
Of Militarization and Miniskirts: Sovereignty and Sexuality in Urban Uganda by Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Source: Los Angeles Review of Books
December 14th, 2015
Vacancy for the position of Communication and Publications Coordinator
Job Title: Coordinator, Communications and Publications Unit
Reports to: Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research
Location: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Job Summary:
Tribute to Prof. Sam Moyo, a Great Intellectual, and a Man of Integrity
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) deeply regrets and mourns the passing away of its former president, Professor Sam Moyo. Professor Moyo was in New Delhi, India, where he was attending a conference on “Labour Questions in the Global South”. The vehicle in which he was travelling was involved in a serious accident in the evening of Friday, 20 November, and Professor Moyo died in the early hours of Sunday, 22 November 2015.
David-Ngendo Tshimba on African Elections
Africa must look beyond election obsession
Written by DAVID-NGENDO TSHIMBA