"Crossing Borders: Sudan in Regional Contexts"

22nd Annual Meeting of Sudan Studies Association
3rd International Conference of SSA, and SSUK
31st July - August 2nd, 2003

Conference Program | Conference Site

Art Exhibit

Hotel Accomodation | More Info

Call for Papers

2003 Membership & Registration Form

(Participants attending from United Kingdom can register & pay in
Sterling with SSUK. Please arrange this by contacting:
sudanssuk@aol.com)

Intercultural Center (ICC)
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
37 & O Street, NW
(Directions to Georgetown)

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

Friday 08/01/2003

Panel #3 (8:30 - 10:30 AM) Refugee Camps & Border Crossing [ICC 115]
Chair: Stephanie Beswick (Ball State University)

Dianna Shandy (Macalester College)
Un-accompanied Sudanese Minors in East Africa

James Schechter (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Finding "Lost Boys": Sudanese Refugees in an UNCHR Camp

Leben Moro (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Sudanese Refugee Camps in Northern Uganda: Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds?

Alice Moore-Harell (Independent Scholar)
Crossing Borders: Sudan, Ethiopia and Israel

Wendy James (University of Oxford)
Blue Nile South: A Hundred Years on from Major Gwynn's Border Survey

Panel #4A (10:45 AM - 12:45PM) Conflicts & Humanitarian Aid [ICC 115]
Chair: Elizabeth H Andretta (Georgetown University)

Charles D Mackenzie, Magdi M Ali and Mamoun Homeida. (Michigan State University, & The Academy of Medical Sciences, Khartoum)
Current Disease Control Programs in Sudan and the Cross Borders Issues

Michael Medley (University of Leeds)
Political Ramifications of Humanitarian Aid in the Hameshkoreb Area, 200-2002

Peter Penz (York University)
Sudan and the Question of Humanitarian Intervention

M. Suleiman Salih Derar (Independent Scholar & Amna Salih Derar (Al Ahfad University)
The Impact of Sudanese Civil Ware on the Beja of Eastern Sudan

Stephanie E Santos (Indiana University)
The Effects of Migration on the “Traditional” Economies of Chad

Panel #4B (10:45 AM - 12:45PM) Practical Knowledge: Addressing the Gap between Academia and Activism [ICC 103]
Chair:Amal Hassan Fadlalla (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Sondra Hale (University of California - Los Angles)

Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Growing Gap between Abstract Theories and Practice in women's Studies

Rahwa Haile (University of Michigan)
The Pedagogy of Action

Mohamed Algadi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Zameel Network: Contribution of Sudanese Left

Khalid Kodi (Boston College)
Resisting and Speaking to the Silence: An Ongoing Visual Rage

El Daw Suliman (Johns Hopkins University)
Linking Research to Action, What Works? The Case of Mother and Child Health Research in Egypt

Abdul Kamus (African Community Center, Washington, DC)
The Successes and Challenges of African Refugee Resettlement in Washington Metropolitan Area

Lunch (12:45 - 1:45PM)

SSA Membership Meeting (1:45-2:30)
[ICC 115]

Panel # 5 (2:45 - 4:30PM) Economy, History, & Foreign Presence [ICC 115]
Chair: Peter Woodward (University of Reading)

Simon Mollan (University of Durham)
The Development of Sudan State Finances in Relation to Egypt and British Imperial Powers, 1899-1936

David Decker (University of South Carolina Sumter)
Conflicts among the Merchant Elite in Central Kordofan 1877-78

Anna Clarkson (University of Durham)
West African Migrants in the Gezira Scheme, 1925-1956

Heather Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
Americans in the Sudan: Reflections on Missionary History in the Nile Valley

Gabriel Warburg (Haifa University)
David Reubeni Revisited

Panel #6A (4:45 - 6:15 PM) Early Ethnogenesis and Regional Contexts [ICC 115]
Chair: Jay Spaulding (Kean University)

Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College)
The C-Group and the Dinka

Stephanie Beswick (Ball State University)
Abeed (Slaves)!: Slavery, the Slave Trade and its Transformation in Southern Sudan (1650-1920)

Kharyssa Rhodes (University of Florida)
Nubia, Corridor to Africa?

Elizabeth Smith (New York University)
Where is Nubia? The Nubian Village as a Gendered Source of Cultural Authenticity in Egypt

Panel #6B (4:45 - 6:15 PM) Darfur, Another Civil War? [ICC 103]
Chair: Michael Kevane (Santa Clara University)
Discussant: Malik Balla (Michigan State University)

Ali B Ali-Dinar (University of Pennsylvania)
Aspirations and Discontent: Examining the Current Ethnopolitical conflict in Darfur

Elias Nyamlell Wakoson (Grayson County College)
Darfur in the Quest for the Political Restructuring of the Sudan

Gamal Adam (York University)
Khartoum and Crisis of Darfur

Ahmed Ibrahim Deraig (Independent Scholar)
The Role of Darfur in the Sudanese Peace Process

7:00PM Dinner
Guest Speaker:
Prof. Peter Woodward
(Reading University)

Saturday 08/02/2003

Panel #7 (8:30 - 10:00 AM) Regional & National Integration [ICC 108]
Chair: Douglas Johnson (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

B. Yongo-Bure (Kettering University)
Cross-Border Trade, Regional Integration and Economic Development

Cesar A. Guvele (Independent Scholar)
Can Cross-border trade between South Sudan and East Africa be Sustained?

Richard G. Steuart (Independent Scholar)
Education for Southern Sudan

Panel #8A (10:00 - 12:00 PM) Issues on Postcolonial Sudan [ICC 108]
Chair: Carolyn Lobban (Rhode Island College)
Discussant: Zaki Elhassan (SSUK)

Randall Fegley (Pennsylvania State College)
Functional Approaches to Sudan's Future: Reflections on David's Mitrany's "A Working Peace System"

Ahmed Mohamedain Abdalla and Mohamed-Hashim Elkareem (University of Toronto)
Cinematic Regionalism: the Idea of Integration in Sudan

Abdullahi A. Gallab (Brigham Young University)
Reading in Sudan History of the Present: Colorism, Regionalism and Violence

Panel #8B (10:00 - 12:00 AM) Forces of War & Peace [ICC 115]
Chair: Robert Collins (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Mohammed Hammad (Reading University)
IGAD's Trojan Horse: Containing Sudan Regional Ambitions

Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (University of Nottingham)
Internationalization of the Internal Armed Conflict in the Sudan Through Regional Involvement

David Chand (University of Nebraska)
The Khartoum Peace Agreement, 1997, and the Machakos Protocol: The Long Road to Peace

Roman Deckert (Ruhr-University of Bochum)
In the Twilight Zone between Kampala, Khartoum and Cologne: New Findings on the Steiner-Affair

Lunch (12:00 - 2:00PM)
Guest Speaker:
Prof. Francis Deng
(Johns Hopkins University)

Panel #9 (2:00 - 4:00 PM) NIF: Alliances & Expansion of Ideology [ICC 115]
Chair: John Voll (Georgetown University)

Ismail Abdalla (College of Willams & Mary)
Al Turabi as an Ideologue

Ann Lesch (Villanova University)
Revisiting the Turabi/Bin Laden Relationship

William Rose (Connecticut College)
Sudan's Islamic Revolution as a Cause of Foreign Intervention in Its Civil War: Insights from Balance of Threat Theory