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Source: The Observer Newspaper

On August 12, 2021, SEATINI Uganda organised a one-day conference, bringing together selected members of civil society organisations and the academia to discuss the role of the state in development today.

The conference also availed preliminary points of departure, if only theoretical, for the new intellectual formation, the Equator School for Alternative Development – itself a brainchild of SEATINI Uganda.

POSITION OF DIRECTOR MAKERERE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH (MISR)

Application deadline - 01/ September/ 2021

1. Reporting:

The Director, MISR reports to the Deputy Vice Chancellor – Academic Affairs, Makerere University.

SSRC's Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program has awarded 3 MISR doctoral students a dissertation research fellowship for 2021-2021.

The awardees are:

1. Atwijuka Anitah
2. Katumusiime Jacob
3. Lunyago Muhamed

MISR warmly congratulates the awardees for upholding the tradition of superior scholarship at MISR.

Professor Mamdani has been nominated by Prospect magazine in its annual list of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers for 2021. Please scroll down the list alphabetically.

Mahmood Mamdani

Source: Daily Monitor Oped

On May 19, Daily Monitor came published an Op-ed piece by Patrick Katagata Jr. titled, ‘Exploring history of the Israel-Gaza Conflict.’

Applications Open. Applications for 2022 are now open. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Responses to applicants will be sent out by Saturday, July 31, 2021.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO 2022 CLASS

Expressions of interest are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the listed posts below. Interested applicants should submit application, Curriculum Vitae, Certificates and Transcripts giving full details of applicant’s education, qualifications, work experience, present salary and naming three referees, plus their postal and email addresses.

Letters should be addressed to;
The Director
Makerere Institute of Social Research
P.O. Box 16022
Wandegeya, Kampala.

“This book compels the reader to rethink the origin and development of the nation-state and its replication as inseparable from European colonialism, beginning with the establishment of the Spanish state through racialized ethnic cleansing and the 1492 deportations of Jews and Moors.