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Date;        Wednesday 7th June, 2017
Venue:     MISR Seminar Room 1
Time:       2:15- 5:15pm.

Panelists:

Mr. Nelson Abiti, Curator for Ethnography, Uganda Museum

Ms. Jackline Nyiracyiza, Curator for History and Archaeology, Uganda Museum

Dr. Derek Peterson, University of Michigan.

ABSTRACT:

  Watch Prof Mahmood Mamdani deliver a lecture, "Africa and the changing world" at Unisa in Pretoria, May 26th, 2017.

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BETWEEN THE SCHOLAR AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: THE UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CONTEXT. 10 May, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

In this Edward Said Memorial lecture held at British museum, 31st March 2017, MISR Director Mahmood Mamdani discusses the question of justice appealing to the writings of Aime Cesaire and Nelson Mandela, reflects on the end of apartheid as a way to critically rethink the Nuremberg legacy – as understood by contemporary human rights movement, and eventually closes with another reflection on contemporary Is

Professor Mahmood Mamdani's Lecture "Global Perspectives: How should we think of justice? lessons from South Sudan, " delivered at British Academy, on March 30th, 2017 is now available for listening.

• Global Perspectives: How should we think of justice? Lessons from South Sudan

The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

Thursday 30 March, 18.30-20.00

By Eddie Ssemakula

A research paper presented by a Witswatersrand Univeristy Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Edgar Taylor, caused a spirited discussion within the Makerere Institute of social research  community. The paper titled, “Surveillance, anonymity and disciplinary violence in the Buganda anti-Asian Boycott of 1959/1960” reexamines colonial history with particular focus on Buganda protests against Asians in that period. It revisits party politics and ethnic nationalism of Colonial Buganda, with parties like Kabaka Yekka (KY) trending.

Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) is pleased to announce the award of a three-year grant of one million US dollars ($ 1,000,000) for its inter-disciplinary PhD program in Social Studies from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.