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Dr. Giuliano Martiniello presented a paper "Food Sovereignty as a Weapon of
the Weak? Rethinking the Food Question in Uganda"
http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/foodsovereignty/pprs/41_Martiniello_2013.pdfat
International Conference on "Food Sovereignty: Critical Reflections"
at the University of Yale 14-15 September 2013.

This essay was has been written by Mahmood Mamdani as Chairperson, Master Jury, Aga Khan Architectural Award, 2013.

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Congratulations to the following applicants for being admitted to the Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies at Makerere Institute of Social Research.

Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled ‘“How do I show the Doctor the sores in my anus?” Self-reported Challenges of MSM who use public health facilities in Uganda’ at the 1st African Conference on Key Populations in the HIV Epidemic which is running from 19th to 21st August 2013 at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This conference is jointly organized by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences,  University of Oslo and UNAIDS and has 150 delegates from 22 countries. For details of the program see attachment.

Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been awarded the All Africa House Fellowship for 2013, to be held at the University of Cape Town. During the fellowship period, she will be hosted by Dr. Robert Mattes (http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/researchers/mattes) of Democracy in Africa Research Unit, Centre for Social Science Research (http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/daru).

The 50^th Anniversary of Uganda’s state Independence – a View from Society

(Text of a talk at the dinner to celebrate the 56^th anniversary of Imamat Day,– Serena Hotel – 18^thJuly, 2013)

This is a time for anniversaries.  This year, we have observed two anniversaries in the 50s this year: the anniversary to mark the ascension of H.H. the Aga Khan, and the independence of Uganda.  I shall focus on the latter event in these remarks.

Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani

by Bhakti Shringarpure

Source: http://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani

Dr. Antonio Tomas and Dr. Stella Nyanzi are participating as cohort
leaders in the Social Science Research Council's 2nd annual workshop for
the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa. This workshop running from
1st to 5th July 2013 is hosted by the Institute of African Studies at the
University of Ghana, Legon (for details see