Dr. Joseph Kasule and Dr. Joschka Philipps on public intellectualism

Abstract

Abstract: In this episode, Cluster fellow Dr. Josph Kasule talks with his host Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Joschka Philipps about Kasule’s research in general and the latest book project “Intimate colonialities, public intellectualism and political revolution in Uganda” that he has been working on during his fellowship in Bayreuth.

People & roles

Guest(s): Kasule, Joseph; Philipps, Joschka

Origins & context

Title: Dr. Joseph Kasule and Dr. Joschka Philipps on public intellectualism
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: February 16, 2024

Rights & access

Extent: 41 minutes, 12 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-15/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 15

Full text

[music] Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest episode of Cluster Conversations. My name is Joscha Phillips. I am a junior research group leader here at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence. And I'm here with Dr Joseph Kasule who is an interdisciplinary scholar, lecturer at the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Uganda, and author of the book Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism and Political Power. And it is my pleasure to have been hosting him for the last three and a half months with Sarah Widdig-Bellay as an international fellow on a book project entitled Intimate Colonialities: Public Intellectualism and Political Revolution in Buganda/Burghley. Welcome Joseph. Speaker 2: Thank you Joscha. Thank you for hosting me all this time. I am very grateful for that. Speaker 1: It's been a great pleasure. We haven't had the chance to see each other as much as we wanted to. But now that we're here and have the chance to talk to one another, I wanted to enter the conversation with your interest in public intellectualism, but perhaps with a more biographical take. So if you think about the public intellectual and sort of breaking this division between the university and the public, how would you describe your own trajectory as an intellectual, academic or non-academic? How did you become the thinker, the writer, the teacher that you are? Speaker 2: Thank you. If I may begin with a sort of early history of my immersion into the academy. I studied International Relations at the undergraduate. And after that I went to London to do this master's degree in International Law. It was called a Master of Laws. I was specializing in Human Rights. And I guess I am kind of, you would say, I am fascinated by this relationship between knowledge and practice. I am always interested in how knowledge can be utilized to improve, well not to improve only, but to change from probably,… Read the full text about 4,944 words