Prof Mamdani - Thabo Mbeki Africa Day Lecture.
29 May, 2017
Watch Prof Mahmood Mamdani deliver a lecture, "Africa and the changing world" at Unisa in Pretoria, May 26th, 2017.
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MISR Director Mahmood Mamdani to give a talk at The Program in Critical Theory, University of California at Berkeley.
05 May, 2017
BETWEEN THE SCHOLAR AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: THE UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CONTEXT. 10 May, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Watch: Prof. Mamdani’s Edward Said Lecture at the British Museum
24 Apr, 2017
In this Edward Said Memorial lecture held at British museum, 31st March 2017, MISR Director Mahmood Mamdani discusses the question of justice appealing to the writings of Aime Cesaire and Nelson Mandela, reflects on the end of apartheid as a way to critically rethink the Nuremberg legacy – as understood by contemporary human rights movement, and eventually closes with another reflection on contemporary Is
Prof. Mamdani’s British Academy Audio out.
21 Apr, 2017
Professor Mahmood Mamdani's Lecture "Global Perspectives: How should we think of justice? lessons from South Sudan, " delivered at British Academy, on March 30th, 2017 is now available for listening.
MISR Director Mahmood Mamdani will be giving two lectures in London, March 30 and 31
28 Mar, 2017
MISR Director Mahmood Mamdani will be giving two lectures in London, March 30 and 31.
- Global Perspectives: How should we think of justice? Lessons from South Sudan
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
Thursday 30 March, 18.30-20.00
Buganda Paper stirs spirited response at MISR.
23 Mar, 2017
By Eddie Ssemakula
A research paper presented by a Witswatersrand Univeristy Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Edgar Taylor, caused a spirited discussion within the Makerere Institute of social research community. The paper titled, “Surveillance, anonymity and disciplinary violence in the Buganda anti-Asian Boycott of 1959/1960” reexamines colonial history with particular focus on Buganda protests against Asians in that period. It revisits party politics and ethnic nationalism of Colonial Buganda, with parties like Kabaka Yekka (KY) trending.
MISR Wins One Million US dollars grant for its PhD Program
23 Mar, 2017
Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) is pleased to announce the award of a three-year grant of one million US dollars ($ 1,000,000) for its inter-disciplinary PhD program in Social Studies from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.