Welcome by Prof. David Wiley (Director of the African Studies Center at MSU, SSA President Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim, and SSA/MSU Coordinator Malik Balla

Panel 1 (1:15- 4:00 PM)

Chair: Stephanie Beswick (Ball State University)

Carla Daughtry (University of Michigan): Ethnographic Notes on a Dinka Language Institute in Cairo"

Richard G. Steuart (Independent Scholar), "Establishing Schools in the Liberated Area of South Sudan"

Stephanie Beswick (Ball State University), "Dinka Migrations from Northern Sudan and the Area of the Great Wars on the White Nile (1200-1700 A. D.)

Sam Laki (Ohio Central State University), "The Role of Oil in the Sudanese War"

Chair and Discussants: Rogaia AbuSharaf and Sondra Hale

Panelists: Bagie Badawi, Amal Fadlallah, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jok Madot Jok, Asma Abdel Halim, Susan Kenyon, Margaret Lado, Asha Musa, Sarah Cleto Rial, Janice Boddy

Susan Kenyon (Butler University) and Asha Musa (King Saud University), "Muhåmmad Abdul-Hai: Pioneering Poet and Sudanese Scholar"

Omar al-Nagar (Reading), After MOB: The Problem of the "New Sudan"

Mu'awia El-Fatih El-Nur (representing the family that published Kordofan Newspaper in El-Obeid) and Abdullahi Gallab, "Al-Fatih al-Nur the Journalist, Kordofan the Journal."

Mukhtar Ahmed (University of Khartoum), "Mekki Shibaika: The Sheikh (Dean) of Sudanese Historians"

Chair: Barbara DeGorge

Warburg (Haifa University), "The Wingate Literature Revisited: Sudan as Seen by Members of the Sudan Political Service during the Condominium"

Ahmed E. ElBasir (The D.C. University), "The History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs"

Abdelrahim M. Salih, (Independent Scholar), "The Death of Colonel Stewart (1985) as Told by the Manasir of Northern Sudan" (tentative).

David Decker ((University of South Carolina-Summter), "Religion and Profits: Merchants and Tijaniyya Tariqa in Late Nineteenth Century Kordofan"

Chair: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Mahgoub El-Tigani (Tennessee State University), "Abdel-Khaliq Mahjub: Sudanizing a Complex Western Thought"

Abdel Magid A. Bob, ( Independent Scholar), "Abdal Khaliq and the Soviet Comrades: Dialectics of Unity and Discord"

Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim (University of Missouri-Columbia), "The Wedding of the Secretary-General: Why did it upset the Central Control Bureau of the Party

A tribute to the Late Osman Hasan Ahmed
Constance Berkley (Vassar College)

Chair: Malik Bella

Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College), "History and Theory of Meroitic Language Studies"

Clyde Winters (Uthman Dan Fodio Institute), "Meroitic Evidence for A Blemmy in Dodekaschoinos"

Judith McCray, A Nuba Documentary

Chair: Janice Boddy (University of Toronto)

Charles Mackenzie (MSU), "The Role of Health in peace and Redevelopment in Southern Sudan"

Magid Ali (MSU), "The Current Situation in Disease Control and Provision of Health Services in Upper Nile Region"

Angela Raven Roberts, Sue Lautz and Abdul Monim (Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts) on the work of the Center in Sudan with pastoralists, the displaced in Khartoum, and knowledge/power.  

Chair: Ibrahim Hamid Badr (York University)

Jay Spaulding (Keen College), "The Evolution of Landownweship in Muhammad Hashim Awad's Sudan, 1969-1971"

Mohamed E. Bushra (Nile University), "The Sudanese Heritage Series" 'Government Anthropologist' or National Folklorist"

AlSir Sidahmed (former editor of Sudanow), "Sudanow: A Record of Achievement" (tentative).

Khalid Kodi, (Boston College) Introducing "Resisting and Speaking to Silence" Art Exhibit.

Chair: James Hudson

Mohamed I. Elgadi, (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), "Evaluation of the Oppressed: A Sudanese Contribution to the Field of Program Evaluation"

Elias Nyamell Wakoson (Grayson College), "Ndogo Folklore Songs and the Sudanese Political Crises/South-North Relations"

AbdalRahman A. AlBashir (Independent Scholar), "Bridging the Generational Gap"

Amira Ahmed Abderahman, (American University-Cairo),

"Violence against Women in a Sudanese Diaspora"

Chair: Ali B. Dinar (University of Pennsylvania)

Abdullahi Gallab (Hiram College), "Mohamad Wardi and the Invention of Everyday Language"

Nagat El-Hag (Ohio State University), "Wardi: Transforming the Sudanese Experience"

Sami Salim (Independent Scholar), "Some Readings in Wardi's Talents: Music, Lyrics, and Artistic Temperament"

Rugya Warag (Writer), "Women's Voices in Wardi's Lyrics"

Discussant:  Sondra Hale (UCLA) and Tigani El-Tahir (Wisconsin University)

Chair and discussant: Rogaia AbuSharaf and Sondra Hales

Panelists: Bagie Badawi, Amal Fadlallah, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Jok Madot Jok, Asma Abdel Halim, Susan Kenyon, Margaret Lado, Asha Musa, Sarah Cleto Rial, Janice Boddy

A visual and performance art exhibition titled
"Resisting and Speaking to the Silence" by Khalid Kodi.

An Art Exhibit of the Work of Mohamed Saeid

MSU Museum (West Circle Drive) invites conferees to visit its  "Drinking of the Word"  It is an exhibit of artifacts and photographs that reveal a variety of Muslim beliefs and practices in West Africa. The Museum opens Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sunday it opens from 1:00 p.m. to 5:oo p.m.