"Civil Wars in Sudan: Casualties, Displacements and Injustices"

24th Annual Meeting of Sudan Studies Association
will be held at Founders College
Hosted by the Center for Refugee Studies
York University
Toronto, Canada

August 18-20, 2005

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Final Program

 Panel #1A, Room 106, (1:00 – 3:00 PM) Migrations and the Diaspora (1)

Chair: Ibrahim Hamid Badr (York University)

Deepa Rajkumar (York University, Canada)

A Multiplicity of Voices: Sudanese Stories of Journeys to Canada

 

Stephanie Riak Akuei (U College London, UK)

Singing about Civil War, Injustice and Displacement: A Look at Contemporary Dinka  Songs and their Travels

Lomumba Ema (Independent Scholar, Canada)

Sudanese Refugees’ Passageway: Escaping State of Inhibition and taking refuge in Emancipation

 

Khamisa Baya (Association of Sudanese Women in Research and Development, Canada)

Sudanese Newcomers in Southern Ontario:  Settlement Needs and Adaptation Challenges

Panel #2A, Room 108, (3:15– 5:15 PM) Negotiating Identities

Chair: Susan McGrath (York University)

Arafa Sheikh Musa, (Al Manar Group,Sudan)
Impact of Civil War, Internal conflict and Displacement on Women: The Case of Women in Omdurman Women Prison

Marth Fanjoy, et. al (Canada)

Sudanese Refugee Perspectives on Journey from Egypt to Australia, Canada and the USA

Jane Kani Edward (University of Toronto, Canada)

Challenging the Victimized and Dependent Image of African Women Refugees:  The Case of Southern Sudanese Women Refugees in Cairo

Panel #3A, Founders Assembly Hall,
(8:00 – 10:00 AM) Reasons for Conflicts

Chair: B. Yongo-Bure (Kettering University)
 

Stephen Boujikian (Independent Scholar, Canada)

Sudan, a Millennium Conflict

Ashley Hamilton (University of British Columbia)

Oil in Ethnic Conflict

 
Øystein H. Rolandsen (Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Norway)
Ideology in the Southern Sudan and the role of Southern Intellectuals since Independence

Ahmed Abd Al-Rahman (CIPT, Sudan)

The Sudan DMR Grassroot Peace Initiative as a Model for Conflict Resolution in Sudan and Similar African Settings

Panel #4A, Room 108, (10:15 AM– 12:15 PM) Humanitarian Relief

Chair: Ali Ali-Dinar (University of Pennsylvania)

Andrew McGregor (Abeferfoyle International Security, Canada)

Subverting the Sultan: British Arms Supplies to the Arab Tribes of Darfur, 1915-1916

Elfatih Mobark Osman (Indepndent Writer,Canada)
Rape as Metaphor: Some Reflections on the Articulation of Sexuality, Racism and State’s Violence in the Darfur Crisis

Meike Meerpohl (University of Cologne)

The Market of Tine: The Impact of Darfur Conflict

Grit Jungstand (U of Cologne, Germany)

Earning Like Never Before: Competing for Resources in the Context of Refugee Situations

Lunch at your own: 12:30 – 1:15 PM
Business Meeting:
1:15 – 2:15 PM
Founders Assembly Hall

Panel #5A, Room 106, (2:15 – 4:15 PM) Post-Conflict Sudan

Panel #6A, Room 106, (4:30– 6:30 PM) Migrations and the Diaspora (2)

Chair: Pablo Idahosa (York University)

Richard Lobban (Rhode Island College, USA)

Towards an Inventory (or theory) of Sudanese Migrations

 

Maroussia H-Ahmed, et.al (McMaster U, Canada)

From Sudan to Canada, Surviving on all Fronts: Women, War and the Refugee Experience

Phillip Luke Sinitiere (U of Houston, USA)

Africa in World History and World History in Africa: Sudanese Dimensions in the Classroom

Panel #6B, Room 108, (4:30– 6:30 PM) Southern Sudan: Peace & Development (1)

Chair: Mathew LeRiche (University of London)

Scopas S. Poggo (Ohio State University)
The Sudanese Civil War, 1955-1989: What it Means to be Free in the Southern Region and a Refugee an a Foreign Land

Brian Adeba, (Independent Scholar, Canada)

The Need for a Free Press in The Postwar Reconstruction Process in South Sudan

Abraham Chol Gai & Kristy Swapp (Sudan)

Southern Sudan Education Project

 Panel #7A, Room 106, (8:30 – 10:30 AM) Conflicts and Atrocities along the Nile Valley

Chair: Jay Spaulding (Kean University)

 Gaby Warburg (Haifa University, Israel)

The Nile in Egyptian Sudanese Relations and the Search for its Sources

 

Ron Lamothe (Boston University)

The River War Revisited: Sudanese Battalions in the Nile Campaign, 1896-1899

 

Stephanie Beswick, (Ball State University, USA)

Slavery, Slave Raids and Resistance: Communication and the Flexibility of Stateless Militaries in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan

 

Panel #7B, Room 108, (8:30 – 10:30 AM) Southern Sudan: Peace & Development (2)

Chair: Randall Fegley (Pennsylvania State University)

Aggripa Wajo (Independent Scholar, Canada)

The State of the Public Sector: Southern Sudan in the Post War period

 

Sitona Osman (Independent Scholar, Canada)

The Role of Women in Peace Building

 

David Edward Lado (Independent Scholar, Canada)

War, Displacement, and Peace: The Despicable Tragedy in Southern Sudan

 Panel #8A, Room 106, (10:45 AM– 12:45 PM) Kordofan: History and Ethnography

Chair: Peter Garretson (Florida State University)

Jay Spaulding (Kean University)

The Lost Diaspora: Pre-colonial Slave Trade in the Nuba Mountains

 

Kevin M DeJesus (York University)

Nuba Space and the Logic(s) of the Sudanese Nation State: Between Identicide, Genocide, and Resistance

 

Jay O’Brien (California State U -Fresno, USA)

You Can Buy Us Tractors

 
Panel #8B, Room 108, (10:45 AM – 12:45 PM) Politics and Religion

Chair:  Gaby Warburg (Haifa University, Israel)

Kim Maurice Searcy (Loyola University, USA)
The Khalifa and the Routinization of Charismatic Authority 

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (Rhode Island College, USA)

Shari’a Law in a Post-Peace (?) Post-Islamist ,(?) Sudan

Mohamed I Elgadi (American Friends Services Committee, USA)

The Rise of Progressive Islam and the Role of Sudanese in the Diaspora

Kitakaya Loisa (Ohio University)

When Conflict Makes Political "Sense"