MISR Conversations 8: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the 21st Century
28 May, 2020
Registration limited to 100. Deadline for Registration: Saturday, 30th May, 2020.
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Call for applications: class of 2021
22 May, 2020
Applications Open. Applications for 2021 are now open. The deadline for applications is Tuesday June 30, 2020. Responses to applicants will be sent out by Friday, July 31, 2020.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO 2021 CLASS
SAD NEWS
05 Apr, 2020
Dear Colleagues, Friends,
I share this sad news along with the text of an interview with Thandika last year. Here, he sums up the lessons of a lifetime’s work.
Thandika Mkandawire has passed on!
The upcoming Publication, Djibouti: The Politics of a Strategic State by Samson Bezabeh. It will come out in May 2020
11 Nov, 2019
Description
Djibouti, the small Horn of Africa state, has great geopolitical significance as a result of its location, positioned along the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden, where the maritime trade routes of three continents converge: Europe, Asia and Africa. Djibouti has become instrumental in controlling the trans-shipment of goods, particularly oil. It is also where world powers vie for control—as demonstrated by the military presence of multiple global powers, four of which (China, France, the USA and Japan) have established military bases in the country.
Excerpt from the book Decolonisation in Universities this Friday in the Mail & Guardian
07 Oct, 2019
This Friday 4 October, there will be an excerpt from Mamdani's chapter in the book featured in the Mail &Guardian- in the Education section. It will also be free to online
Follow the link; https://mg.co.za/article/2019-10-04-00-our-universities-need-relevance-and-excellence
Announcing the 2019-2020 Next Gen Fellows
28 Aug, 2019
Makerere Institute of Social Research congratulates two of its students
1. Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie, and
2. Evarist Ngabirano
for being chosen as Social Science Fellows 2019-20 in the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program.
TTI External Evaluation (2014-19) praises MISR for ‘visionary reforms’ and ‘extraordinary results’
12 Jul, 2019
The TTI evaluation covered 43 think tanks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It identified the best 12 for in-depth evaluation. MISR was one of these.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO 2020 CLASS
10 May, 2019
The Makerere Institute of Social Research launched its Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies in January 2012. The five-year programme entails two years of coursework and three years of dissertation research and writing. Four broad themes define the program’s intellectual focus: Political Studies, Political Economy, Historical Studies, and Literary and Cultural Studies. Students specialize in one field, but take classes across all four.