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Prof. Mamdani will be a Speaker at the 4th Makerere University Stakeholders’
Consultative meeting on Governance and Policy in National Development, on Friday
August 3, 2012. 

Your Excellency, Mr. President; the Chair, the Honorable Minister of Finance; the Honorable Governor of the Bank of Uganda and the Honorable Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda,

I assume that the Bank of Uganda has asked me to be a discussant hoping I would raise questions they do not feel comfortable raising.  I will take a cue from them and ask Professor Stiglitz questions hoping he will give responses that I do not quite feel comfortable giving.

Market Failures in the Financial System: Implications for Financial Sector Policies, especially in Developing Countries?

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled “Experiences of Mental Health and Well-being among LGBTI in contemporary Uganda” at the 30^th International Congress of Psychologists to be held in Cape Town, South Africa between 21^st – 26^th July 2012. For details visit: www.icp2012.com.

Stella Nyanzi will present two posters at the 19th International AIDS Conference
scheduled for 22nd - 27th July 2012 in Washington DC, USA (for details see
http://www.aids2012.org/Default.aspx?pageId=305).
The first poster is entitled Double Death by HIV/AIDS and Homophobia among MSM
Communities in Kampala, Uganda and will be discussed on Tuesday 24th July 2012 (see
attached abstract). Based on ethnographic data from four MSM who died in Kampala

Graduate Education: Money Alone Will Not Solve the Problem

Mahmood Mamdani

Makerere University

(Text of talk to First Makerere University Doctoral Convention: Experiences and Future Prospects, 29^th June, 2012)

Makerere Institute of Social Research hosted two lecture series by leading international scholars Partha Chatterjee and Wang Hui on India and on China. The lecture series are part of MISR’s program to bring intellectuals from around the world to help broaden our understanding of global intellectual traditions. These are part of the intellectual and physical renovation of MISR begun by Director Mahmood Mamdani in 2010.

Stella Nyanzi has published a book chapter entitled President Jammeh's HIV/AIDS Healing Saga in The Gambia, that is published in the edited volume entitled African Responses to HIV/AIDS: Between Speech and Action. The book editors are Dr. Johnson Ige Segun and Prof. Tim Quinlan. The book is published by the University of KwaZulu Natal Press. The author discusses a notorious example of poor leadership in Africa, and its disastrous effects on a country. According to the editors in their introduction,

Dr. Stella Nyanzi is one of three Ugandans who received the early post-doctoral fellowship of the African Humanities Program for the 2011-2012 academic year. Started in 2009-2010, the African Humanities Program is implemented by the American Council of Learned Societies with funds from the Carnegie Corporation (see http://www.acls.org/programs/ahp/).  This competitive fellowship targets both doctoral students in their final year and early post-doctoral fellows who are not more than four years past their doctorate degree.

MISR announces that applications for the 2013 interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies are closed.

However below are detais about the programme: