College

As you may be aware, Makerere University received special funding worth UGX 30 billion (equivalent to US$ 8,100,000) from the Government of the Republic of Uganda under the Research and Innovations Fund (RIF) to support high impact Research and Innovations.

The Grants Management Committee led by the Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Finance and Administration, Prof. William Bazeyo invites you all to a sensitization meeting on the Research Fund scheduled to take place tomorrow, 10th September, 2019 at 4:00pm in CTF 1, Room 2.2.

Recess Term for Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1 Week

Semester Two Examination  for Academic Year 2019/2020 - 3 Weeks

Semester One Examination  for  Academic Year 2019/2020 - 3 Weeks

Freshers Orientation Programme for 2019/2020 Academic Year meeting with University Officials will be held on Monday 5th August, 2019 at the Freedom Square starting at 9:00 a.m.

Come enjoy presentations and Q&A about the five-year interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies. Learn about the four broad themes: Political Studies, Political Economy, Historical Studies and Cultural Studies. Chat with MISR faculty, alumni, staff and students.

Theme: "Situating Africa in the World and Understanding the World from an African Vantage Point"

The Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University cordially invites you all to the 2019 Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium scheduled to take place on 15th-16th May, 2019 in the University Main Hall.

Theme: “A New East African: Agency and Identity Debates in the Region”

Time: 8:30am- 4:30pm on each day

Guest of Honour: Prof. Charles Olweny

Keynote speaker: Prof. Ruth Mukama

Interlocutor: Prof. Joy C. Kwesiga

**About the Humanities and Social Sciences Symposiums

In 2018, CHUSS hosted the first Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium with the resolve that this intervention would become an annual academic event in the college. The symposia series are organised in pursuant with the college’s mandate, among which, is the need to foster a vibrant academic environment in the university and the country that can promote intellectual debate and knowledge production in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Consequently, the 2018 symposium brought together the region’s Humanities and Social Sciences scholars to debate issues affecting the Eastern African polity in the Fourth Industrial milieu. The central thesis of the discourse focused on the new tools and methods needed to interrogate the new world order ruled by information technology. It also argued that the long tradition of Humanities and Social Sciences’ leadership provides answers to perennial problems affecting the world and located these disciplines at the centre of envisioning new futures of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the region. The symposium arrived at two important conclusions. First, information technology had and was fundamentally changing East African society and subjectivity. Second, that because of and/or in spite of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the East African region and its peoples had witnessed major changes and shifts in the political, social and economic arenas.

The 2019 CHUSS Symposium takes major shifts in the East African society that have occurred in the last two decades as its point of departure in order to explore how agency and identity of the regions subjects have morphed during this period. Such a discursive foundation cannot only extend, but also deepen and/or broaden debates related to how the region and its peoples have changed in the last two decades of the twenty-first century. This thematic concern concedes that the landmass that is located at the western rim of the Indian Ocean has for millennia acted as a contact space between the different worlds and worldviews. Consequently, agency and identity are always in a state of flux. However, the forces of nationalism, regionalism, trans-nationalism, trans-culturalism, globalism, commerce, conquest, racism and other cultural-political and socioeconomic processes have overlapped to produce a uniquely and complexly East African ethos that has reshaped and remapped the very idea of ‘East Africanness’ as manifested in violent eruptions, dispossessions, displacements and re-alignments.

Related link - https://chuss.mak.ac.ug/events/call-abstracts-humanities-and-social-sciences-symposium-2019-0

The Coordinator of the CHUSS Seminar Series, Dr Sarah Ssali invites you to the aforementioned seminar scheduled for Friday, 26^th April, 2019 at 2:00pm in the Conference Hall at the School of Women and Gender Studies.

Presenter: Dr Victoria O. Adeniyi, Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University,   Nigeria

Topic: Between the Divine and the Demonic: Interrogating Nigerian Pentecostalism, Christian Myths, and the Susceptibility of Female Characters in Selected Nigerian Video Films

See abstract below

The Coordinator of the CHUSS Seminar Series, Dr Sarah Ssali invites you to the next seminar scheduled for Thursday 18^th April, 2019 in the Conference Hall at the School of Women and Gender Studies.

 Presenter: Emmanuel A. Uba, Department of Languages and General Studies, Covenant University Ota, Nigeria

Topic: Phonological variation of wh- and that-clause markers in spontaneous utterances and read aloud in Nigerian English: A diglossic investigation

See abstract below

Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium 2019

Theme: A New East African: Agency and Identity Debates

In 2018, CHUSS hosted the first Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium with the resolve that this intervention would become an annual academic event in the College. The symposia series are organized in line with the College’s mandate, to among other issues foster a vibrant academic environment in the university and the country that can promote intellectual debate and knowledge production in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consequently, the 2018 symposium brought together the region’s Humanities and Social Sciences scholars to debate issues affecting the Eastern African polity in the Fourth Industrial milieu. The central thesis of the discourse focused on the new tools and methods needed to interrogate the new world order ruled by information technology.

The 2019 CHUSS Symposium takes major shifts in the East African society that have occurred in the last two decades as its point of departure in order to explore how agency and identity of the regions subjects have morphed during this period.

The Organizing Committee of the 2019 Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium invites abstracts on the theme, “A New East African: Agency and Identity Debates”

Abstract of not more than 200 words should be submitted to graduate.college@chuss.mak.ac.ug by Friday 19 April 2019. Accepted papers should be ready for presentation on the 15th May 2019. The authors of selected papers will be asked to revise their papers before submission for publication in a special issue of MAWAZO.

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