Webinar Registration: Tumaini Festival: Transnationalism at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi

Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange Fellow Mr. Emmanuel Chima in conversation with Prof Paul Bukuliki of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

This webinar is one in a series of web seminars organized under the auspices of the Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Fellowship. The Ubuntu Dialogues project is a partnership between the Stellenbosch University Museum and the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. The partnership is geared toward establishing new and strengthening existing connections and cooperation between universities, museums, and communities.

You are to join this conversation and collaborate in producing dynamic sites for the co-creation and dissemination of knowledge and practice.

Time: Sep 28, 2021 03:00 PM in Johannesburg

Register: https://maties.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HXdwCbXXTii4r8zAeJGwIQ

Speakers

Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Fellow: Emmanuel Chima

PhD Candidate @School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lancing, USA

Emmanuel Chima is a second-year PhD student at the School of Social Work at Michigan State University in East Lansing, USA. His research focuses on experiences of forced displacement, youth transitions and aging. Currently he is studying the community at Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi.

Professor Paul Bukuliki

Professor @Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Prof Paul Bukuliki is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. His research interests include gender, social norms, sexual and reproductive rights, violence against women and girls, and child and social protection in development and humanitarian settings. He coordinates the migration and health focus areas as well as the online course on health and migration at Makerere University.

Respondent: Professor Thaddeus Metz

Professor @Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Thaddeus Metz is professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria. He is known for drawing on the African philosophical tradition to analyse a variety of contemporary moral, political and legal controversies. He has published about 300 books, chapters and articles, and his research rating with the National Research Foundation is A1.