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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.

The Yale University Council on African Studies hosted a roundtable discussion of Adam Branch's forthcoming book, "Africa Uprising," on December 2, 2013.

For more information, see http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/african/

Dr. Stella Nyanzi presented papers based on her ethnographic research to students, faculty and social activists based at different institutions in the USA in November 2013. The presentations are outlined below:

Giuliano Martiniello presented a paper titled "Food Sovereignty as a weapon of the weak? Rethinking the food question in Uganda" at the Conference "Food Sovereignty a critical dialogue", University of Yale, 14-15 September, 2013, and a seminar titled "Dispossession and resistance to South African agribusiness capital in the scramble for Eastern and Souther African land" at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 28 November 2013.

The Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, invites applications for four Research Fellow positions and two Senior Research Fellow positions in the fields of:

- African History, with a particular interest in Pre-Colonial African History

- Political Economy

- Literary and Cultural Studies

- Socio-Cultural Anthropology; Literary and Cultural Studies

- African Political Thought

Dr. Stella Nyanzi presented a paper entitled “Politicizing the ‘Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah’: Examining the Christian Rightists’ War against Homosexuality in Uganda” on 21^st November 2013 at the 56^th African Studies Association (ASA) annual meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland.  

During this meeting, Dr. Nyanzi also received the ASA Presidential Scholars Programme 2013 award, along with Dr. Komlan Agbedahin from Rhodes University and Dr. Mathayo Ndomondo from the University of Dar es Salaam.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi has published an article entitled ‘Homosexuality, Sex Work and HIV/AIDS in Displacement and Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Refugees in Uganda’ in the journal INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING, volume 20, number 4, pages 450-465. The article is based on her on-going ethnographic research.

For details see:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13533312.2013.846136

Prof. Mamdani gave a talk during  the  conference “A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialogue with Edward Said” in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, November 2, 2013.

The conference was organised by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).