Sudanese Studies Association (tomorrow's program) George Washington U.

Thursday 07/31/2003

SSA Board Meeting (11:00 - 12:30)
[White Gravenor 201A]



Opening Ceremony: (1:00 - 1:20 PM) [White Gravenor 201A]

Michael Kevane, SSA President
Elizabeth Andretta, Dean, Georgetown University
Zaki Elhassan, SSUK President
Ali B Ali-Dinar, SSA President-Elect, Organzier

Panel #1 (1:20 - 3:05PM) Military Conflicts and Border Issues [White
Gravenor 201A]
Chair: B. Yongo-Bure (Kettering University)

Abannik O. Hino (Wingate University)
Conflict and Military Coup in Equatoria: A Study of the Social and Ethnic
Background of A Frontier Army in Turco-Egyptian Sudan


Douglas H. Johnson (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Tribe or Nationality? The Sudanese Diaspora in East Africa

Cherry Leonardi (University of Durham)
'A Thoroughly Satisfactory Boundary'? - The Creation, Subversion and
Manipulation of the Frontiers of Yei District of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,
with Uganda and the Belgian Congo

Robert Collins (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The Ilemi Triangle

Panel #2A (3:15 - 5:15 PM) Islamism and Arabism in Sudan Conflicts [White
Gravenor 201A]
Chair: Heather Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Ismail Abdallah (College of William & Mary)

Caroyln Lobban (Rhode Island College)
Islamization of Law in Sudan and Nigeria Compared

Ahmed El Gaili (Harvard Law School)
Federalism and the Tyranny of Religious Minorities: Challenges to an Islamic
Federal State in the Sudan

Richard Barltrop (Oxford University)
The Arab States and Sudan's Civil War, 1983-2001

Panel #2B (3:15 - 5:15 PM) Migrations, & Displacement [White Gravenor 201B]
Chair & Discussant: Ibrahim Badr (York University)

Rebecca Lorins (University of Texas at Austin)
Displacement as Translation: A Tale of Three Audiences

Andrea Flores Khalil (City University of New York)
A Herdsman's Migration to Khartoum in Ibrahim Shaddad's Film "Insan"

Kevin M. DeJesus (York University)
"Saving Souls: Querying the Macro-Political and Religiously Motivated Aid to
Displaced Persons of the Sudan"

Ahmed E. Hussein (International Islamic University Malaysia)
Missing Links: Ancient Relations between the Sudan & the Western Frontiers

Abdelrahman Al Bashir (Independent Scholar)
Permeable Borders: Their Role in Populating and Molding Sudan’s Culture and
Politics


Roundtable (5:30 - 6:30 PM) Discussion on Sudanese Arts [ICC Auditorium]

Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles)
Ahmad Elmardi (Independent Artist)
Khalid Kodi (Boston College)
Iman Shagag (Independent Artist)

Opening of the Art Exhibit:
"Sudan Through the Eyes of the Exiles"
[ICC Galleria]

SSA Reception Sponsored by the
Sudanese Community Center in
Washington DC Metropolitan Area

7:30 - 10:00PM
Arts Performance
[ICC Auditorium]
Poetry - Music - Dance

Correction:
George Town University...my apology.