Professor Mamdani did a one week tour of the West Coast of the US giving lectures on 'After Nuremberg: The Historical Significance of the Post-Apartheid Transition in South Africa' at Stanford University Law School (Nov 13), University of Southern California Law School (Nov 14) and University of California at Irvine (Nov 15)

Dr. Hundle will be presenting her paper entitled: "Investor abannamaddala ne Investor ab’ ekiwaani (Real Investors and Fake Investors): South Asian Re-incorporation in Kampala" at the 56^th annual meeting of the African Studies Association in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday, November 23^rd, 2013.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi discussed African Studies during an interview published in the November 2013 issue of the African Studies Association (ASA) Newsletter. This interview is part of the ASA Presidential Fellows Program for 2013.

For details of the interview see http://www.africanstudiesassociation.org/publications/asa-news/november-2013-56th-annual-meeting/284-presidential-scholar-dr-stella-nyanzi

Dr. Stella Nyanzi presented summaries of her research and discussed funding for the arts and humanities in universities in Africa at the Carnegie Corporation and the American Council of Learned Societies in New York, on 11^th November 2013. These visits at the two funding bodies behind the African Humanities Program marked the beginning of Dr. Nyanzi’s fellowship period as an African Studies Association Presidential Fellow for 2013.

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Dr. Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled ‘Teaching Resistance, Emancipation and Liberation: Thinking through Women’s Participation in Uganda’s 2011 Elections’ at the Center for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town on 5^th November 2013. The presentation ends her three-months’ writing residency facilitated through the All Africa House Fellowship Programme for junior faculty in African universities.

Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled “Queer African Scholarship: Queering African Modes of Knowing, Africanizing Queer Frames of Thinking” at the International Conference on African Studies to be held at the University of Ghana, Legon from 24^th – 26^th October 2013. Her paper is part of a three-panel programme convend by Prof. Kopano Ratele under the bi-annual ‘PITSO Programme on Changing Traditions’ of the University of South Africa. Her panel tackles ‘Reimagining the Idea of African Traditions: Intellectual, Knowledge and Research Traditions”.

Source: Aljazeera

Senseless [and sensible] violence: Mourning the dead at Westgate Mall

Placing these tragic events in a wider context, suggests a need to reassess the 'war on terror' in the horn of Africa.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi joined the Academic Committee of QP5 – the Fifth International Queering Paradigms Conference that is entitled ‘Queering Narratives of Modernity’. The QP5 will be held at the Latin American University of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito - Ecuador, the Andes between 20^th and 22^nd February 2014.

Dr. Giuliano Martiniello presented a paper "Food Sovereignty as a Weapon of
the Weak? Rethinking the Food Question in Uganda"
http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/foodsovereignty/pprs/41_Martiniello_2013.pdfat
International Conference on "Food Sovereignty: Critical Reflections"
at the University of Yale 14-15 September 2013.