Hybrid (Online & Physical)

Please note that the public talk titled “Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders,” originally scheduled for Friday, 13 March 2026, has been postponed until further notice.

A new date will be communicated in due course.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

More details to be posted later.

More details to be posted later.

The Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) cordially invites you to the seminar: From Lusaka to Doha: Illiberal War-making and Liberal Peace in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scheduled for Wednesday, 4th March, 2026.

Presenter:

• Dr. David Ngendo Tshimba, Research Fellow, MISR

Discussants:

The Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) invites you to a MISR Global Conversations Seminar by Prof. Nivedita Menon.

Title: "Decolonial Imaginations - Beyond Rightwing Appropriations and Leftwing Critiques"

Discussants: 

1. Ms. Anna Karthika

2. Dr. Mbasughun Ukpi

3. Dr. David Ngendo-Tshimba

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 

Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EAT (4:30pm to 7:30pm India Standard Time).

Title: Shifting Perspectives on 'Pastoral Violence': the Persistence of the 'Karamoja Problem' in Uganda.

Opponent:
Prof. Tim Mitchell, Columbia University, NYC

Supervisors:
Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University;
Dr. Joseph Kasule, MISR;
Dr. Andrea Cassatella, MISR.

Chair:
Dr. Yahya Ssseremba, MISR

Time: 3:00 - 6:00PM

Title: Beyond Representation: Generational Memories and a Contemporary Making of Nigerian Middle Belt Consciousness

Opponent:
Prof. Samaila Suleiman, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano.

Supervisors:

• Assoc. Prof. Lyn Ossome, MISR
• Assoc. Prof. Ernest Okello Ogwang, MISR
• Dr. Andrea Cassatella, MISR

Chair:

Dr. Joseph Kasule, MISR

The UMU Centre for African Studies (CAS@UMU), in collaboration with the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), is pleased to invite you to a Book Discussion of Decolonisation Pathways, Vol. 2.

Abstract