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STELLA NYANZI GIVES KEY NOTE AT 11th WESTERN REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CONFERENCE

02 Apr, 2014

Dr. Stella Nyanzi is giving the key note address at the 11th Western Regional International Health Conference organised by University of Washington's Department of Global Health, in Seattle on 4th - 7th April 2014. The conference theme is "Uncesored: Gender, Sexuality and Social Movements in Global Health."

For details of the theme and panels, please see:
www.2014.wrihc.org/conference-theme/

For a detailed conference program, please see:

STELLA NYANZI PRESENTS PAPER AT 3RD WOMEN'S THINK TANK.

28 Mar, 2014

Dr. Stella Nyanzi presented a paper entitled "Current Political and Governance Trends and their Implications on Ugandan Women: Of Power and Powerlessness" at the 3rd Women's Think Tank meeting organised by Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE Uganda) held in Kampala on 28/03/2014. The theme of this meeting was 'A Space for Women to Contribute to Uganda's Gender Agenda'.

For details of the program, please see attached file.

STELLA NYANZI PRESENTS PAPER AT 2ND AFRICAN SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES AND GENDER DIVERSITY CONFERENCE

24 Mar, 2014

Stella Nyanzi presented a paper entitled “Queering African Scholarship: Queering African Modes of Knowing, Africanizing Queer Frames of Thinking” at the Second African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity (ASSSG&D II) Conference held in Nairobi from 17th – 20th March 2014. Academics, researchers and activists presented 41 papers from 26 African countries and the diaspora,among other activities.


For details of the conference program, please see attached document.

Mamdani appointed member of the "South Sudan Commission of Inquiry"

13 Mar, 2014

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12 March, 2014:  Members of the Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan appointed on 7 March 2014 by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma have been sworn in.  In the first such swearing-in ceremony in the history of the AU Commission, the members of the Commission of Inquiry each took an oath administered by the AU Commission’s Legal Counsel, Professor Vincent Nmehielle on Wednesday, 12 March 2014, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Stella Nyanzi is participating in the Next Generation of Social Science in Africa Workshop at the University of Dar es Salaam.

06 Jan, 2014

Dr. Stella Nyanzi is participating in the bi-annual Next Generation in Social Science in Africa Workshop as a workshop-leader. The workshop is hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam and is being held from 6th-10th January 2014. Funded by Carnegie Corporation New York through the Social Science Research Council, this fellowship program supports proposal development, doctoral research, and dissertation completion for young African scholars enrolled in doctoral programs in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa. 45 fellows are supported annually.