البرنامج المبدئى لمؤتمر جمعية الدراسات السودانية August 8th - 10th, 2006

Twenty Fifth Silver Anniversary Conference
of the Sudan Studies Association

REFLECTIONS ON SUDANIST SCHOLARSHIP

At Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
August 8-10, 2006

Provisional DRAFT July 17, 2006
Tuesday August 8, 2006
Registration
August 8, 2006 11AM to 1:00 PM
RIC Student Union, 3rd floor hall
Continuous throughout conference

1:00- 2:00 PM, Conference Opening,
Welcoming remarks: President or Vice-president of RIC??
Announcements: SSA President or Executive Director presiding
The roots of the SSA at RIC and incorporation in the state of Rhode Island in 1981, Plenary Session

Panel 1. 2:00 PM—3:15PM SOUTH SUDAN: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCHOLARSHIP AND HIGHER EDUCATION

1. “The University of Juba and the Development of higher education in Southern Sudan,” Beniah Yongo-Bure, Kettering U.
2. “They are all represented: Ali, Ali, and Ali, Re-examining the official knowledge in Sudan’s basic education curriculum,”
Hala-Asmina Ibrahim, Ohio University, Athens
3. “The Paradoxical nature of the interest in Sudanist Scholarship,” Dawood H. Sultan, University of Tennessee at Martin
4. Teaching Module on Economic Development in Southern Sudan,
Michael Kevane, Santa Clara U.

Panel 2. 3:30-4:450 PM HUMAN RIGHTS -- SU Ballroom

1. “My Personal Experience as a Refugee in Uganda:
Scopas Poggo, Ohio State University
2. “Torture and Detention in the Sudan: Historical and contemporary perspectives,” Kevin DeJesus, York U., Toronto
3. “Protecting Human Rights in the Sudan, Mousa M. Elbasha and
Margaret Thorpe Elbasha, Puebla, Mexico
Followed by a ROUND TABLE ON THE MEDIA AND THE SUDAN/DARFUR CONFLICTS
Richard Lobban, Ali Dinar, etc.

SPECIAL FEATURE 5:00-6:00PM
Musical Tribute to Burra`y Mohamed Daffa Allah
Performance and Commentary by Mahgoub al-Tigani Mahmoud, Tennessee State University, Nashville
“The Human Rights of Sudanese Musicology, Burra`y M. Daffa Allah: Musical Creativity and Cultural Heritage”

6:00 PM
Reception at the Faculty Center, hosted by the SSA
Dinner on your own

Khalid Kodi Art Exhibition – Women’s dress and the politics of repression during the NIF regime, Student Union Ballroom?

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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Panel 3. 8:30 AM- 10:15AM DARFUR

1. “About Alliance and Coalition Building: Example of Darfur Alert Coalition” Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia
2. “What are the Opportunities and constraints that International and regional organizations face when attempting to resolve intra-state conflicts? The current conflict in Darfur,”
Jenna Ansell, SAIS, Johns Hopkins International Center, Bologna
3. “Conflicts and conflict resolution in post-independence Sudan,” Garoot Suleiman Eissa, Int’l Islamic Univ., Malaysia
4. Evidence and Arguments for the Bad Rainfall Explanation of the Darfur Crisis. Leslie Gray, Santa Clara U.

Panel 4. 10:45AM-12:00PM The REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT

1. “Alien and indigenous cultural identities in northern Sudan: how the Republicans succeeded and others failed,” Albaqir Afif Mukhtar and Haydar Badawi Sadig,
2. Steve Howard, Ohio University ?
3. Abu Obeida Abdel Gadir

Lunch Break. 12:00PM 1:30 PM at Donovan Dining Center cafeteria

Panel 5. 1:30- 2:45 PM REFLECTIONS AND HISTORY OF THE SSA BY PAST PRESIDENTS

1. “Twenty Five Years of the Sudan Studies Association, and Sudanist scholarship as a reflection of Sudan’s Fifty Years of Independence”
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, RIC, SSA president 1984-85; 1990-91
2. Ismail Abdalla, College of William and Mary, SSA president 1988-89; Jay Spaulding (1987-8, Connie Berkley (1989-90), Richard Lobban (1981-82)

COFFEE BREAK 2:45-3:00PM

Panel 6 – Foreign Relations 3:30-5:00 PM SU Ballroom
Session on Foreign Policy with the Honorable Senator Lincoln Chafee from RI ®, member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Commentary by Ambassador Donald Petterson (?)


SSA Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Banquet
6:00—8:00 PM at Faculty Center Dining Room
Abdullahi An-Na’im, “The Wages of Peace in Sudan: What difference can the SSA make?”


CULTURAL PERFORMANCE
9:00 – 10:30 PM-- Student Union Ballroom
Performance BY Baraka Oyuru and his band South Sudan and Portland, Maine
Singing “Sharia,” No to war,” and others

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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Note: Double Sessions on Thursday morning

Panel 7 8:30-10:15 AM NUBIAN ANTIQUITY – SU 307

1. “Exploring the Exodus: Nubia in 1964,” Herman Bell, Oxford
2. “Dinka History and comparative traditions,” Bol Deng, Utah.
3. “Investigation of the Zipf-Plot of the extinct Meroitic Language,”
Reginald Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. “From Nubian village-based charities to the comprehensive Nubian Congress: an attempt for developing democracy with an ethnic boundary,” Muhammad Jalal Hashim, UK
5. “On toward Meroitic decipherment: Meroitic monumental texts,” Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College

Panel 8. 8:30-10:15 AM-- SU Ballroom
GENDER, REFUGEES, AND SOCIAL REHABILITATION

1. “Gender Violence at the Grassroots Level in South Sudan”
Suzan Christopher Y. Lasu, Director ELPWCE, Maridi, South Sudan
2. “IDPs, Refugees, and Citizens: Youth in and after war and their mental health,” Stephanie Santos, Boston University School of Public Health
3. “Comparative Perspectives on the Rehabilitation of Ex-slaves and child soldiers in Sudan,” Randall Fegley, Pennsylvania State University, Berks campus
4. “The Ignored History of Women in Sudanese post-colonial scholarship,” Jane Kani Edward, York University, Toronto


Panel 9. 10:30 AM– 12 Noon POLITICS, SU Ballroom

1. “The Politicization of ethnic sentiments in the Sudan: Implications for Nation-building,”
Elfatih Abdullahi Abdel Salam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. “Sixty Years of Repression: the story of organized labor in Sudan,” Siddiq Elzailee, London Metropolitan University
3. “What If? Sudan with a possible different political configuration,” Ismail H. Abdalla, College of William and Mary
4. “Understanding Sudan’s Tragedy Politically,” Amir Idris, Fordham University, New York

Panel 10. 10:30-12 Noon SOUTH SUDAN HISTORY, Presidential Dining Room, DDC

1. “The Rise, Collaboration, and Fall of the Shilluk And Bari Kingdoms in the Nineteenth-century slaving era of South Sudan,” Stephanie Beswick, Ball State University, Indiana
2. “Bari Trade in the Age of Lakono,” Jay Spaulding, Kean University, New Jersey
3. “The Bacwezi brought iron: the relationship between the kingdoms of the Nile Valley and the Bunyoro-Kitara of Uganda,” kharyssa rhodes, University of Florida, Gainesville

Silver Anniversary Luncheon 12 Noon – 2:00 PM in Faculty Dining Center

Guest Speaker: Ambassador Donald Petterson, Chair Abyei Land Dispute Commission, 2005; American Ambassador to Sudan 1992-1995; Chairman Abyei Boundaries Commission, 2005; author of Inside Sudan and Revolution in Zanzibar
”Abyei Unresolved: a threat to the North-South Agreement”


Panel 11. 2:00- 4:00 PM SOUTH SUDAN, DIASPORA, FUTURE

1. “Refugees are abusing our system, aren’t they?”
Siddig Babiker Elzailee, London Metropolitan University
2. “Current Health status of the “Lost Boys” in Salt Lake City, Utah,” Augustino Mayai, University of Utah
3. “Lack of Teachers impact on the development of South Sudan,” Levi Khamis, Maridi, South Sudan
4. “South Sudan has reached a point of no return and must depart from the Sudanese Union,” Hoth Chan, Dartmouth, MA

4:30-5:00 PM CONFERENCE CLOSING
Closing remarks SSA officials and program co-organizers
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SSA Program Co-Sponsors: African and African-American Studies; Anthropology Department; Unity Center; African Alliance of RI; RI Black Heritage Society

Special Thanks to: the 25th silver anniversary program organizers, Stephanie Santos, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard Lobban

Officers of the SSA: President Ali Dinar, President-elect Elias Nyamlell Wakoson; Newsletter editors, Michael Kevane, Stephanie Beswick and Jay Spaulding
RIC Printing Center: Ken Coulbourn
Logo, Hannah Ressenger

Computers/e-mail available in the Coffee Shop in the basement of the Student Union. Please share as needed.