We are proud to announce that six MISR MPhil/PhD students were awarded various fellowships from the SSRC Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa Program and the Open Society Foundations.
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MISR staff, and thesis examiners, pose with the author Haydee Bangerezako (center front) after the defence on August 28th, 2017 in MISR seminar room 1.
By Eddie Ssemakula.
Sixty-six of the world’s leading minds were announced as Fellows of the British Academy on Friday 21 July 2017.
See, https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research
We are pleased to announce that one among these was MISR Director, Professor Mahmood Mamdani.
Professor Mahmood Mamdani, delivered this year’s TB Davie Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, 22 August 2017, at University of Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre on Upper Campus.
His lecture, titled Decolonising the Post-Colonial University, cut to the heart of debates that are still raging across South Africa’s higher education institutions.
Biodun Jeyifo's Tribute to Abiola Irele: Egbon, teacher and mentor, go gracefully into the night: for Abiola.
By: Biodun Jeyifo On: July 9, 2017July 8, 2017
Date; Wednesday 7th June, 2017
Venue: MISR Seminar Room 1
Time: 2:15- 5:15pm.
Panelists:
Mr. Nelson Abiti, Curator for Ethnography, Uganda Museum
Ms. Jackline Nyiracyiza, Curator for History and Archaeology, Uganda Museum
Dr. Derek Peterson, University of Michigan.
ABSTRACT:
Watch Prof Mahmood Mamdani deliver a lecture, "Africa and the changing world" at Unisa in Pretoria, May 26th, 2017.
