Edgar Taylor

@edgarjacktaylor.bsky.social

Lecturer at Makerere University Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies; Research Associate Univ of Johannesburg Dept of History, Visiting Fellow Kellogg Institute for International Studies 2025; http://researchgate.net/profile/Edgar-Taylor

The Makerere History and Archaeology Seminar will meet on Tuesday 21 July for a presentation by Dr May Murungi, 'Phytoliths (plant silica): Application in Eastern and Southern African Archaeology, Paleoecology & Taxonomy'. Eugene Ayebare will be the discussant. All are welcome

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The Ham Mukasa Public Lecture will be delivered on Friday 6th March at the Makerere University Main Hall at 2pm and online. 'His Life and Legacy. A Public Lecture by James Galabuzi Mukasa, Ham Mukasa's Grandson'. All are welcome.

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The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 16 December at 2:00pm (Kampala time). Prof ABK Kasozi will present a paper "What is the way forward for Makerere in the next one hundred years?". Discussants will be Dr Charlotte Mafumbo and Dr Yahya Sseremba. See poster for details

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The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 18 Nov at 2:30pm (Kampala time). Simon Werner @eui-eu.bsky.social will present "Social science between Busoga and Chicago: Lloyd Fallers, the East African Institute of Social Research, and the colonial networks of Cold War knowledge". See poster

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Please join us for the second Bethwell A. Ogot Memorial Lecture by Prof David William Cohen hosted by the Makerere University Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies this Friday 9am in the Main Hall

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Join the Makerere Dept of History, Archaeology & Heritage Studies today at 3pm in CTF1 Room 3.1/3.2 or on Zoom for the book launch of Henri Médard's Colonial Chaos: Land Politics and Conflicts on the Shores of Lake Victoria (1885-1925)

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I will be presenting at the IFRA History Seminar in Nairobi on 29 November: "The Crime of Pseudonymity: Writing and Authority in the Anti-Indian Buganda Boycott of 1959". To attend, register by emailing: info@ifra-nairobi.net

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