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"Books Take you Places" was the theme of the 2015 Kampala International Book Fair that took place from 22-24 April, 2015 at the Uganda National Cultural Center grounds.  As an invited exhibitor, this was an opportunity that MISR used to showcase and sell some of its scholarly publications. Most encouraging for us was the effort of the Uganda Reproduction Services Bureau (URSB) to arrest anyone caught in the act of copyright infringement.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi  presented a paper based on her ethnographic research at the "Queer in Africa Re-Imagined" Symposium held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa from 21 - 22 April, 2015. Her paper was titled : "Dollars, dildos and dental dams: Disfigurations of Queer ethos and practice in contemporary Uganda.”

Venue: African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Date: 30 - 31 March. 2015

A recent workshop held at the AU headquarters and attended by with Simon Omaada Esibo (PHD Student) on behalf of MISR, could have presented a research opportunity (on the subject of Early Warning for Peace and Security) for the Institute.

Professor Mahmood Mamdani will be on a lecture tour in: Hangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai (China) - 17 - 28 April 2015; Havard Law School (USA); and the University of Sussex (UK) until  11 May, 2015.

Stella Nyanzi is presenting a  paper entitled "The Costs of LGBTIQ Activism in Africa: A Case Study of Uganda" at the "Sexuality/ies?" International Symposium at the University of Uppsala on 9th April 2015. The symposium is organised by the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology as well as the Uppsala Forum for African Studies.

She also presented at paper entitled "Sexuality, Activism and Social Research" at the Departmental Seminar of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi has published a co-authored article entitled "The Social-Political Dynamics of Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda" in the African feminist journal called AGENDA. Co-written with Andrew Karamagi of the School of Law at Makerere University, the article reviews historical developments of the anti-homosexuality laws in Uganda, and then analyses how diverse members of the executive, legislature and judiciary mobilised and deployed these legislative processes to advance their political careers within this hybrid regime.

Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, 4^th year PhD student at MISR has been admitted to the 2015-2016 cohort of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program (UMAPS). He joins a prestigious group of over 100 African faculty who have taken part in the program since its inception in February 2009.

Makerere University/Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) 1^st Post-Graduate Students’ Conference, 17-18 July 2015, Kampala, Uganda

Invitation to Apply for Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following posts.