Two MISR Doctoral Fellows Receive Academic Appointments
02 Feb, 2017
MISR congratulates,
News
MISR Research features in International Media
02 Feb, 2017
We pleased to announce that research at MISR has featured prominently in The New York Times, both American and International editions, over the past two weeks.
Below, you will find an opinion piece by the director of MISR on the front page of the International edition of the New York Times, 8 January, 2017, titled: “Can African Union Save South Sudan from Genocide.”
Announcement of PhD Defence-Ocen Laury Lawrence
11 Jan, 2017
The Director Makerere Institute of Social Research Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, cordially invites you to the PhD Public Defence of Mr. Ocen Laury Lawrence scheduled to take place on 25th January, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Seminar Room 1.
Thesis title: Reading Monuments: Politics and Poetics of Memory in Postwar Northern Uganda.
Supervisors:
1. Assoc. Prof. Okello-Ogwang
2. Dr. Florence Ebila
The abstract is attached below.
Mamdani's Piece in the New York Times
10 Jan, 2017
Attached below is Prof. Mamdani's article, "Last Hopes to Prevent a Genocide" appearing in the New York Times, Monday January 9, 2017.
Professor Mamdani’s Lecture Tour of China, December 16 - 25, 2016
13 Dec, 2016
2016 Third World Action Project
Agenda
2016第三世界行动计划
日程
时 间：2016年12月18日（周日）－25日（周日）
Dates：December 18(Sun.) - December 25 (Sun.), 2016
地 点：北京 杭州 上海
Prof. Kasozi on External forces and funding of universities in Uganda
05 Dec, 2016
I have read Ofwono Opondo's article, Makerere let's return to the basics, in the New Vision of November 20, and Mukwanason Hyuha's A reaction to Prof. Mamdani's Makerere (New vision, November 24, 2016). Both disagree with Mamdani' assertion that external financial forces, particularly led by the World Bank, adversely impacted on Makerere's funding and share part of the blame for the predicamnt of what Makerere is in today.
Read full article in the attached document.
Prof. Mamdani on the Makerere University Crisis
17 Nov, 2016
By Prof. Mahmood Mamdani
Makerere University has closed again. The decision has come from the President of Uganda with no indication as to when the university will reopen.
Prof. Kasozi on How to Solve Strikes in Public Universities
05 Nov, 2016
The current staff strike and student commotions at Makerere University are a tip of an iceberg. Staff and student activisms cannot be resolved by firefighting them with Police or other security forces. Fundamental causes of these strikes and the current governance problems must be studied, analysed and addressed to resolve current problems in our university system. Changes of vice chancellors will not resolve the problems. Neither will giving more funds to staff nor students.