College

The Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) cordially invites you all to participate in a blended (physical and virtual) research workshop scheduled to take place on Friday, 13^th November 2020 starting at 9:00am at Central Teaching Facility One (CTF1), Room 1.2.

Registration for online participation

Please note that except for a few participants who have been invited to attend physically, the rest of you are requested to register and participate online.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bit.ly/3n1cOVA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

See programme and abstracts in the attachments below.

You are cordially invited to participate in the aforementioned online seminar scheduled to take place on Friday, 6th November 2020 at 2:00pm.

This is to invite Humanities scholars in Uganda to participate in the African Humanities Programme (AHP) application preparation workshop for the 2020/2021 Application Year. The workshop will take place on 18^th-19 November 2020.                    

It is over a decade since the AHP and its sponsoring organ, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) committed to developing and promoting academic excellence in the Humanities in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. Mentorship of graduate students and early career scholars, as well as strengthening networks among Humanities scholars on the continent, are among the key objectives of the AHP.

It is in this regard that the School of Languages, Literature and Communication, in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), is organizing a two day Application-preparation Workshop, from 18^th -19^th November 2020. This is a blended workshop. In the interest of regional collaboration and networking, some of the mentors are from the partner countries.

This workshop is free of charge and open to all participants in Ugandan universities. It particularly targets applicants for the 2020/2021 Call for the AHP Grant Application. The participants will be exposed to the AHP grant application rubrics and proposal writing. This is also to help improve the quality and quantity of AHP applications from Uganda.

Workshop Organizer

Prof. Sr. Dominica Dipio - Department of Literature, Makerere University

Note: All applications should be submitted online, as word document to the following addresses: dodipio@yahoo.com, jbimokola@chuss.mak.ac.ug, kiizatisaac@gmail.com

Deadline for submitting draft application essays: 8th November 2020

See details in the attachment below

***ZOOM REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE INAUGURAL WORKSHOP OF THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (CHUSS) CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING (CERTL)

The Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) cordially invites you all to participate in the inaugural workshop of the CHUSS Centre of Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning (CERTL) scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 27^th October 2020 at Senate Building in the Conference Hall at Level Four from 9:00am to 2:35pm. The workshop will be a blended academic engagement to introduce the Centre and its intellectual/academic agenda to the College and the entire University community. It will be graced by the Chairperson, Makerere University Council, the Vice Chancellor and the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic Affairs.

The Centre is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York.

 ***VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION

Due to the current situation occasioned by COVID-19, we shall strictly observe the Ministry of Health Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and the Vice Chancellor’s guidelines on holding meetings and workshops. Except a few participants who will attend physically, the rest are requested to register and participate virtually.

Please click on the link below to register in advance for this meeting.

https://bit.ly/2HedXdv

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.       

***ABOUT THE CHUSS CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING (CERTL)

Early this year, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York to establish a CHUSS Centre of Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning (CERTL). The Centre will help to equip and revitalize faculty, graduate teaching fellows, and graduate students in the College with skills in research on teaching and learning. The Centre will among other things:

1. Offer opportunities for faculty to retool and learn from each other about the teaching of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in a university. This will be through an exploration of new pedagogies that foster critical thinking and enable senior faculty to provide orientation, mentoring, and instructional support to new and upcoming faculty
2. Provide opportunities for renewal and growth among senior faculty in research and teaching in their respective disciplines
3. Initiate and support a culture of recognition and reward for excellence in research, learning and teaching in the University
4. Ensure that students in the Humanities, Arts and Humanistic Social Sciences disciplines and programs are properly grounded in the debates, methodologies and writing in their respective disciplines albeit emphasizing interdisciplinarity

See details on the Centre, programme and workshop flyer in the attachments below.

Dr. Ruth Murambadoro, Senior Lecturer, Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (SSRC/NextGen 2015, 2016, 2017)

Dr. Toyin Ajao, Director and Founder of iAfrika Centre for Holistic Research and Praxis, Research Associate, alumna and current alumni coordinator of the Africa Leadership Centre (ALC) (SSRC NextGen Alumni, 2015, 2017) 

Exploratory Analysis of Identity Construction in Nigerian Media Framing of Farmer-Herder Conflict in North-Central Nigeria

About the presenter

Ridwan Kolawole, PhD Candidate, Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

More details coming soon