School of Women and Gender Studies
School of Women and Gender Studies
Invitation to research dissemination workshop
Makerere University with support from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) has been undertaking research under the project titled: Strengthening Social Sciences Research for National Development. One of the projects focused on customary land tenure in the context of contemporary policy imperatives.
This is to invite you all to a dissemination workshop of a paper titled: Men, Marriage and Women’s Land Rights: Reflections on Customary Land Tenure System in Rural Uganda
Presenter: Dr Josephine Ahikire, Ag Principal, CHUSS
Discussants:
1. Mr. Dennis Obbo, Information Specialist, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development
2. Prof. Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo- School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University
3. Dr. Henry Manyire- School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University
See abstract below
Invitation to Ms. Mukamana Liberata’s PhD defence
The Dean School of Women and Gender Studies invites you to Ms. Mukamana Liberata’s PhD defence scheduled to take place on 2nd October 2018 at 10:00am in the School of Women and Gender Studies Conference Hall.
Thesis title: Interrogating the Economic Empowerment of Women in Rwanda through Microfinance Loan Schemes
Supervisors
- Dr May Sengendo
- Dr Edith Okiria
Opponent: Prof. Edward Bbale
See abstract below
Invitation to Mr. Fredrick Kindi’s PhD defence
The Dean School of Women and Gender Studies invites you all to Mr. Fredrick Kindi’s PhD defence scheduled for 25th June, 2018.
Thesis title: “Women’s and Men’s Access to the Private Health Facilities for Child Health Care Services in Iganga District, Uganda”
Supervisors: Dr May Ssengendo
Dr Eddy Walakira
Opponent: Dr Sarah Kiguli
Venue: Conference Room, School of Women and Gender Studies
See abstract below
Gender Identity Week
To commemorate the International Women's day, the School of Women and Gender Studies invites the general public to participate in the Gender Identity Week under the theme: Transformations for Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls: Opportunities and Challenges. The event runs from Monday 5th - Saturday 10th March 2018 at the SWGS LH2. See details in the attached flier.
Public Dialogue on Women in Peace Building
The School of Women and Gender Studies in conjunction with the School of Law is privileged to host Ambassador, Dr. Marie Jacobsson from the Swedish Foreign Affairs Ministry and Ms. Betty Bigombe formerly with the World Bank in a Public Dialogue on Women in Peace Building.
Date: Thursday 8th Feb 2018
Venue: School of Women and Gender Studies Lecture Hall 2
Time: 2.00pm
You are all invited.
CHUSS Seminar: CAPITALISM and MORAL CHANGE
Title: Capitalism and Moral Change: the Genesis of Uganda’s contemporary moral-Economic Order
Seminar Brief:
Capitalism and moral change: the genesis of Uganda’s contemporary moral-economic order by Jörg Wiegratz (Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development, University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies)
In this seminar, Jörg Wiegratz introduces some of the main arguments and findings of his new book on the relationship between neoliberal reform, moral-economic change and economic fraud in of the key exemplars of neoliberalism in Africa, Uganda. The book offers a fresh take on a major question of a debate that has gripped not just countries in Africa but around the world: what explains the rise in economic fraud in so many societies around the world? Wiegratz argues that the current age of fraud is an outcome of not only political-economic but also moral transformations that have taken place in societies reshaped by neoliberalism. Using the case of Uganda, he traces these socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism in a country. His work offers an in-depth, data-based take on the genesis and operation of a ‘market society’ in Uganda, and some of the major aspects of the cultural political economy (and especially the moral climate) of such a market society. Uganda offers an important case of investigation for three reasons: the high level of foreign intervention by donors, aid agencies, international organisations, NGOs and corporations that have tried to produce the first fully-fledged market society in Africa there; the country’s reputation as having adopted neoliberal reforms most extensively, and the intensification of fraud in many sectors of the economy since the early 2000s. The talk does two things: first, it explores the rise and operation of the neoliberal moral economy and its world of hard and fraudulent practices. It analyses especially the moral-economic character of agricultural produce markets in eastern Uganda. It shows that neoliberal moral restructuring is a highly political, contested and conflict-ridden process, predominantly works via recalibrating the political-economic structure of a country, and deeply affects how people think and go about earning a living and treat others with whom they do business. Second, it offers more general reflections about the moral order and moral change in capitalist society and respective scholarly debates.
For more on the new book see here. Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. He researches the political economy and moral economy of neoliberalism in Africa and elsewhere. In the past he has researched global value chains and industrial development, predominantly with an empirical focus on Uganda. He previously worked as a researcher and consultant in Uganda for UNIDO, the Government of Uganda, and the GIZ, a Resource Person at Makerere University (School of Economics), and a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala (2004–2007). He is a member of the editorial working group of Review of African Political Economy; here, he coordinates the web blog projects on Economic trickery, fraud and crime in Africa, and Capitalism in Africa. He is the author of Uganda’s Human Resource Challenge: Training, Business Culture and Economic Development (Fountain Publishers, 2009) and co-editor of Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (Routledge, 2016, with David Whyte), and Neoliberal Uganda (Zed, 2018, with Giuliano Martinello and Elisa Greco). He has also published articles in New Political Economy, Review of African Political Economy and Journal of Agrarian Change. See also his recent piece on Capitalist Moral Economy in Africa.
Invitation to book launch: “Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda”
The School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University has since 1999 been collaborating with The Centre for Women and Gender Research (Kvinnforsk) at the University of Tromso (UiT), The Arctic University of Norway. The research collaboration culminated into publication of the book titled: “Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda”. The editors of the book are: Prof. Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Dr Florence K. Muhanguzi and Prof. Josephine Ahikire of the School of Women and Gender Studies, together with Prof. Siri Gerrard from the University of Tromso in Norway.
As part of the effort to populise the knowledge generated, the School of Women and Gender Studies will launch the book on Wednesday, 3rd May, 2017 in the School of Women and Gender Studies Conference Hall starting at 1:30pm.
You are all invited.
See programme below
Invitation to Mr Kalyango Ronald Sebba’s PhD defence
The Dean School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University invites you to Mr Kalyango Ronald Sebba’s PhD defence scheduled to take place on 2nd May, 2017.
Thesis title
Returning Home: Gender and Choice among Internally Displaced Persons in Gulu District
Supervisors
1. Assoc. Prof. Deborah Mulumba – Kyambogo University
2. Prof. Tone Bleir – University of Tromso, Norway
Opponent
Prof. Elijah D. Mushemeza – Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara
See abstract below
Lecture on "Peace and Security from a Global and Sudan/Uganda Perspectives"
The University of Khartoum, Development Studies and Research Institute (Dsri) and the Women, Gender and Development Unit (Wgad) in collaboration with Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) & the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University is organizing a half day lecture on "Peace and Security from a Global and Sudan/Uganda Perspectives"
The lecture is aimed at providing a learning environment on the processes that Uganda has undertaken in the development and review of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 National Action Plan for Uganda. The event will bring together Sudan Women Ministers, Commissioners, civil society leaders, and the academia.
The half day lecture is scheduled to take place in the School of Women and Gender Studies Conference Hall, Makerere University.