33rd

Annual Sudan Studies Association Conference

Sudan and South Sudan: Boundaries, Borders and the Challenges of Nationhood

University of San Francisco,

San Francisco, USA

May 23rd

, 24th

and 25th

2014

THURSDAY 22nd

MAY 2014

REGISTRATION 10 -5 pm

Lone Mountain Campus – Main Foyer

FRIDAY 23rd

MAY 2014

REGISTRATION 8 -5 pm

Fromm Hall, Lower Campus – Main Foyer

EVENTS & WORKSHOPS - THURSDAY 22nd

MAY 2014 & FRIDAY 23rd

MAY 2014

THURSDAY -- WELCOMING RECEPTION 5- 9 pm

Business and Entrepreneurship in Sudan and South Sudan

The Factory, 1000 Fulton Street, San Francisco

(directions inside conference packet)

Come and meet entrepreneurs from San Francisco’s business incubator community to talk about business

ideas for Sudan and South Sudan.

All welcome … even if you aren’t a business person!

FRIDAY -- HANDS ON MEDIA-MAKING WORKSHOP 2-5.30 pm

This hands-on practical workshop will provide participants with some basic tools in participatory media

making for social change, including the use of community radio programming, video clips for You Tube

and the use of social media in campaigns.

FRIDAY -- HANDS ON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 2-3.30pm

Interested in the discussion at the business reception? Come along to this workshop to hear about how to

take your business ideas further.

THROUGHOUT THE CONFERENCE

FRIDAY 23rd

MAY & SATURDAY 24th

MAY

BROAD ROOM, FROMM CENTER

Book Display and Signing

There will be a variety of new titles about Sudan on display throughout the conference together with

information about how to purchase them.

There will also be some book signings. Times and authors will be posted.

SUNDAY 25th

MAY

McLAREN CONFERENCE CENTER

Book Display and Signing

On Sunday, the book display will be moved to the foyer of the McLaren Center

FRIDAY, 23rd

SATURDAY 24th & SUNDAY 25th

BROAD ROOM

Book Signing

There will be a “book of appreciation and thanks” open in honor of Jemera Rome for her continued

friendship, support and contributions to the Sudan Studies Association. Please come along, sign the book

and add your own words of thanks!

FRIDAY 23rd

MAY 2014

FROMM COMPLEX

9.00 – 10.30am XAVIER HALL

9.00 - 9.30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

9.30 – 10.30am Opening Address

Dr. Luka Biong Deng

PRIO Global Fellow, Associate Fellow at Carr Center for Human Rights

Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and President, Kush Inc.

South Sudan: Comrades Becoming Foes

(Discussion to follow)

10.30 – 11.00 am TEA /COFFEE BREAK

11.00 – 12.30 pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr.Douglas H. Johnson)

South Sudan Today

Jacob Akol The Need for an Ethnically Rooted Constitution for South Sudan as a

SSSUK & Gurtong Trust Strong Foundation for Democracy and National Stability

Douglas H. Johnson Jonglei as a Prelude to the Current Conflict in South Sudan

SSSUK & Rift Valley Institute

Luka Biong Deng Abyei Area Border: Is it a Threat or a Thread?

Harvard University

Guma Kunda Komey Cross-border Connections Between Two War Zones: South Kordofan

University of Bahri and South Sudan

Khartoum, Sudan

11.00-12.30pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Jacqueline Wilson)

Rebellions, Refugees and Reconciliation: The Prospects for Peace and Durable Solutions to

Displacement in the Sudan(s)

Gordon Lam Gatluak, Informing Strategies for Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan

Oxfam-Juba

Noah Gottschalk, South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda

Oxfam- Washington DC

Omayma Sayed-Ahmed Gutbi, Conflicts and Peace Architecture

Oxfam Khartoum

11.00-12.30pm MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Dr. Souad T. Ali)

Sufism and Resistance in Sudan

Omer Kocyigit Echoes of the Sudanese Mahdi Uprising in the Ottoman Empire

Bogazici University,

Turkey

Stephanie Beswick Dinka Resistance During the Turco-Egyptian war in South Sudan and

Ball State University Perceived Religious Power of the Mahdist Spears

Daisuke Maruyama From Mysticism to Ethics: Making Sense of Changing Representations

Research Fellow of Sufism

Japan Society for the

Promotion of Science

12.30 -1.30pm LUNCH BREAK

1.30 – 2.30pm MAIN FOYER - ART OPENING (Khalid Kodi)

“Ghost Signs of the Unknown Survivors/Victims”

The Crow

2.30 – 4.00pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Introduction: Dr. Abdullahi Gallab)

Carolyn Fluehr–Lobban,

Distinguished Scholarship Lecture

Prelude to a Memoir, Reflections on Four Decades of Research in the Sudans

2.30 – 4.00pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Douglas H. Johnson)

South Sudan: Trajectories of Integration and Disintegration

Hashimoto Eri The Dynamic Relation between the White Army and the Nuer Prophet

Hitotsubashi University, in Jonglei State

Japan

Benjamin Aciek Ethnicity as a New Arabism in an Independent South Sudan

Machar

Howard University

Yuko Tobinai Imagined Sudans and People’s Choices: the Perspectives of Migrants in

Osaka University, Khartoum after the Independence of South Sudan

Japan

Lako Tongun The Political Economy of an Emerging Rentier State: Ethnicity and

Pitzer College Crisis in South Sudan

2.30 – 4.00 pm MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Fr. John Ohure Chachu)

Peacemaking and Restorative Justice in Sudan and South Sudan

Jacqueline Wilson Blood money in Sudan and Beyond: Restorative Justice or Face-

United States Institute of Peace Saving Measure?

John Ashworth The Role of the Church in Peace-building in South Sudan

Advisor to the Church in South Sudan

& the Committee for National Healing,

Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan.

Julius Nyambur Wani The Efficacy of traditional Peacemaking and Reconciliation Among

American University the Mundari People of South Sudan: An Integrative Approach to

Peace-building and Good Governance

Friedrich Plank Inclusion in Peace Agreements: The Case of the Comprehensive

University of Augsburg, Peace Agreement

Germany &

Inno Henneberg

University of Freiburg,

Germany

4.00-4.30pm TEA/COFFEE BREAK

4.30 – 6.00pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr. Anne L. Bartlett)

Sudan Rising

Sondra Hale Every Slight Movement of the People: Sudan Rising

UCLA

Gada Kadoda The Barefoot Women Solar Engineers: Rising Against the Odds

Independent Researcher,

Khartoum, Sudan

Rebecca Glade Social Activism and Transnational Networks: Nafeer and

Erasmus Mundus Sudanese Flood Relief

Nisrin El Amin Contested Lands and Sufi Power in Central Sudan

Stanford University

4.30- 6.00pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Guma Kunda Komey)

Blue Nile: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Current Crisis

Wendy James Local, Regional and International Perspectives on the Blue Nile up to

Oxford University, the CPA of 2005.

UK

Liasor Dima My Visit to the Blue Nile in 2010: A Time of High Optimism

University of Denver

Akira Okazaki Resuscitating the “New Sudan Vision” by the ‘Naivasha Two’: The

Hitotsubashi University, Experience of Agency and Patiency among the People of Blue Nile

Japan Region in ‘Greater Sudan’

Hashim Orta Humanitarian Provision in Blue Nile State: Current Challenges and

Humanitarian Affairs Opportunities

SPLM-N

4.30 -6.00pm MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Dr. Lako Tongun)

South Sudan: Economy, Community and Imaginaries of the Nation

Benaiah Yongo-Bure Socio Economic Development and Long-Term Stability in South Sudan

Kettering University

Tarnjeet Kang Developing Alternative Methodologies: Using Needs Assessments as a

University of Illinois Mechanism for Community Self-Determination in South Sudan

Mohamed Yassin South Sudan Development Priorities: Millennium Development Goals and

University of Minnesota Sustainability

Robert Kramer Prospects for Scholarly Collaboration: A Conversation with

St. Norbert College Professor Samson Wassara

RECEPTION 6.30 – 9.30 pm

Gleeson Library Monihan Atrium

Presentation on forthcoming Tayeb Salih Project “A Handful of Dates” by Hashim Hassan

Musical performance by Omer Ihsas and Mekail Eldaw Bakhit

Their performance will be followed by dance from Shabbal and other music from throughout Sudan and

South Sudan.

All Conference Participants Welcome

SATURDAY 24

th MAY 2014

FROMM COMPLEX

9.00 – 10.30am XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Jacob Akol)

South Sudan in Historical Perspective

Douglas H. Johnson 100 years of History: The South Sudan National Archive

SSSUK & Rift Valley Institute

Noel Stringham Names as Archives: a Unifying Discourse of History for South Sudan

University of Virginia

Scopas S. Poggo The Origins and Patterns of Migration of the Kuku People of South

Ohio State University Sudan

9.00 -10.30am BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Dr. Abdullahi Gallab)

Identity and Belonging

Azaz El Shami Why do we Need to Build a New Sudanese Identity?

George Washington University

Margaret Otto Knitting Networks of Belonging

Free University of Berlin,

Germany

Abdel-Rahman Mohamed Identity: A Theoretical Reconstruction of Concept

Independent Scholar

Nasredeen Abdulbari Identity and Citizenship in Sudan

Independent Scholar

9.00 -10.30am MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Dr. Stephanie Beswick)

Society, State and Territory in Darfur and Sinnar

Jay Spaulding The Art of Memory and Chancery in Sinnar

Kean University

Ali. B. Ali Dinar The History of Darfur’s Political Borders as a Source of Peace and

University of Violence

Pennsylvania

Anne L. Bartlett Song as Sanction: Boundary Transgression and Social Control in Darfur

University of

San Francisco

9.30 -10.30 am MAIER ROOM PANEL FOUR (Chair: Dr. Ali B. Dinar)

State-Building and the Sudanese People

Mohamed S. Hassan Egypt and the Sudan: A Disunity that Should Have Been a Union

Independent Scholar

M.K. Khalil Multiculturalism was the Cause of the Early Shining Sudan. Is it is the

Nubian Language Society Answer to Today’s Conflicting and Divergent Country?

Ahmed El-Bashir State-building and the Construction and Reproduction of Ethnic

Ismail Boundaries in the Sudan

McMaster University,

Canada

10.30 – 11.00 am TEA/COFFEE BREAK

11.00 – 12.30pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr. Anne L. Bartlett)

Darfur: New Trajectories in a Deepening Crisis

Ahmed Hussein Adam The New Phase of Genocide: Profile Scope and Implications

Columbia University

Dr. Idriss Yousif Peace Efforts and Current Developments in Darfur

Darfur Civil Society

Mechanism, Sudan

Altahir Abbo The Roots of Darfur’s Crisis

Independent Scholar

11.00 -12.30pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Sondra Hale)

Sudan(s) in Diaspora: Imagining Home

Souad T. Ali Sudanese of the Second Diaspora in Arizona: Challenges and

Arizona State University Opportunities

Bashair Ahmed Expression of identity among Sudanese and South Sudanese youth in

University of Sussex, diasporas through social media

UK

Malik Balla Can the southern Sudanese diaspora be Involved in helping to resolve

Oakland University the conflict in South Sudan?

11.00 -12.30pm MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Christian Doll)

Thinking Through and Beyond State-Making in South Sudan

Christian Doll South Sudan Emerging from Ground Zero? Rebel Sovereignty and

UC Davis Neoliberal Governmentality in the World’s Newest Nation-State

Naseem Badiey The Unseeing State: Corruption, Evasion and Other Local Responses

California State University, to Urban Planning

Monterey

Ole Frahm Does Nation-building matter for State-building in South Sudan?

Humbolt University of Berlin

Germany

12.30- 1.30pm LUNCH BREAK

1.30 – 2.30pm MAIER ROOM

A Tribute to the Life of Jay O’Brien & Constance Berkley

2.30 – 4.00pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum)

New Gender Dynamics in the Sudan(s)

Janice Boddy Weddings and Changing Gender Dynamics in Northern Sudan

University of Toronto,

Canada

Martha Fanjoy Cattle, Money and the Search for “Good Girls”: Transnationalism and

University of Toronto, Masculinity among South Sudanese Refugees in Canada

Canada

Marybeth Chrotowsky The Effect of Asylum on Kuai: The Unintended Consequences of

Southern Methodist University Attempts by NGOs to empower Women

2.30-4.00pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Benaiah Yongo-Bure )

Borders, Security and the Relationship between the Sudan(s)

Wolf-Christian Paes Too Little, Too Late - The Failure of International Attempts at Security

BICC, University of Bonn, Sector Reform in South Sudan

Germany

James Copnall The Sudans

BBC Correspondent to

Sudan/South Sudan 2009-2012

Joshua Craze Unclear Lines: State and Non-State Actors in Abyei, Sudan/South

UC Berkeley Sudan

Dacia Douhaibi Yours, Mine and Ours: The Battle for Territory in the New South

York University, Sudan

Canada

2.30 – 4.00pm MARASCHI ROOM PANEL THREE (Chair: Dr. Luka Biong Deng)

Economic Dimensions of Bi-National/Regional Integration

David Ayual Mayom Can Successful Models of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Sub-

University of San Francisco Saharan Africa and Elsewhere be Applied in South Sudan to Create

Significant Employment Opportunities and Other Positive Spillover

Effects?

Hassab Elrasoul Ali New Options for Petroleum Governance in Segmented Oil Exporting

Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Societies: How Can This be Initiated Now for the Two Sudans?

James Alic Garang How to Leverage Oil Resources to Enhance SME Financing in South

UMass, Amherst Sudan

Tegan Joseph Mosugu Building a New Nation: Strengthening the South-Sudanese Economy

New York University

2.30-4.00pm MAIER ROOM PANEL FOUR (Chair: Dr. Elsadiq ElSheikh )

Health and Folk Medicinal Products in Sudan

Mohamed Yassin Building Sustainable Trans-boundary cooperation with/in the

University of Complexity of the Sudan(s): Health Challenges Lessons and

Minnesota Prospects

Amira Babiker Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Sudan(s): Leishmaniasis as a Case

University of Padua, Study

Italy

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Honey Hunting and Managed Beekeeping in Sudan

Rhode Island College

4.00-4.30pm TEA/COFFEE BREAK

4.30 – 6.00 pm XAVIER HALL PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr. Wendy James )

Nuba Mountains: Land, Conflict and Displacement

Guma Kunda Komey The Nuba Mountains: Disrupted Territory/Social Space

University of Bahri,

Khartoum Sudan

Hafiz Mohamed Human Rights Dimensions of the Nuba Mountains Crsis

Justice Africa,

Khartoum, Sudan

Ibrahim Musa A Cry for Help from the Nuba Mountains

Monterey Institute for

International Studies

Haram Saeed Jameel The Problem of Education in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan

Independent Scholar

4.30 -6.00pm BERMAN ROOM PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Janice Boddy)

Language, Narrative and Community

Ellen Gruenbaum Stories of Sudan: Why Narratives Matter

Purdue University

Mohamed El Kareem Cinematic Regionalism: the Cinema of Integration in Sudan/South

University of Toronto Sudan

Abdul Karim Bangura Divisive Barbarity or Harmonious Humanity? Linguistic

Howard University Presuppositions in the National Anthems of Sudan and South Sudan as

Tools to Teach Peaceful Behavior

Mohamed Y. Khalifa Sudanese Arabic and Juba Arabic: Morphology and

Harvard University Agglutination

4.30 – 6.00pm MAIER ROOM PANEL THREE

New Archaeological Discoveries in Ancient Meroe

FILM: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Meroe

Richard Lobban Human Remains at Abu Erteila

Rhode Island College

3.30 – 6.00 pm MARASCHI ROOM (Note Longer Time Slot)

THEMATIC CONVERSATION (Chair: Dr. Abdel Magid Bob)

Opening Remarks: Farouk AbuEissa (Chair of NCF, Sudan)

The “National Dialogue” and the Future of Sudan

Ahmed Hussein Adam The Implications of a “National Dialogue” in Sudan

Columbia University

Farouk M. Ibrahim The Movement for Peace, Human Rights and Theistic Humanism:

Sudanese Committee for An Alternative National Project for Northern Sudan

the Defense of Human Rights

and Freedom

Hamdan Goumaa Complex Conflicts and the Dilemma of Searching for Peace and Stability

Independent Scholar in Sudan: What can be Done?

Abubakr Elnoor Horizons of Solving the Sudanese Conflict

Kenzah Institute for

Conflict Resolution

and Training

BANQUET Lone Mountain, Handlery Room 100

6.30 -8.30 pm

Keynote Speaker: Ibrahim El–Salahi,

President, Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom

“A Life in Colors”

(Introduction by Dr. Sondra Hale)

Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most influential figures in Sudanese modern art. Through his extraordinary

artwork and remarkable writing and art criticism, he has made foundational contributions to the modernist

movements in Africa and the Arab world.

In his paintings, drawings, and illustrations, he engages with an array of traditional African, Arab, and

Islamic visual sources as well as European art movements. His unique style transcends geographic and

cultural boundaries and has inspired artists in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa for generations.

El-Salahi's art offers profound possibilities for understanding African and Arab modernisms and

repositioning them within the context of a broader, global modernity.

SUNDAY 25th

MAY

McLAREN CONFERENCE CENTER

9.00 -10.30am McLAREN 250 PANEL ONE (Chair: Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban)

Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan

Book Review Panel and Roundtable Discussion

Panelists:

Mark Fathi Massoud,

UC Santa Cruz

Abdullahi Gallab

Arizona State University

Noah Salomon

Carleton College

Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Rhode Island College

9.00- 10.30am COWELL HALL 106 PANEL TWO (Chair: Dr. Farouk Ibrahim)

Torture & Violence in Sudan

Rochelle N. Johnston Towards a Framework for Researching Bystanding to Atrocities and

University of Toronto Structural Violence in Sudan

Mohamed Ibrahim & Using Collaborative Data to Expose Torture in Sudan

Springfield College

Nahid Abunama Elgadi

Amnesty International

9.00 – 10.30am COWELL HALL 107 PANEL THREE (Chair: Hamdan Goumaa)

Sudan/South Sudan Border: Challenges and Opportunities

Buthaina Ahmed Elnaiem Sudan-South Sudan’s Emerging Border: An Economic Opportunity or a

University of Bahri, Khartoum Burden and a Threat?

Sudan

Hussein M. Suleiman Livestock Mobility around the Borderlands of Contemporary Sudan

Brown University

& Helen Young

Tufts University

Abdelrahman El-Dagum Bridging Enmities: Three South Kordofanian Border Communities and

Baktan & their Southern Neighbors since 2011

Ghefari F. El Sayed

Economic and Social

Research Bureau, Khartoum

11.00 -12.00pm

Business Meeting

McLAREN COMPLEX

12.00 – 1.15 pm PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND LUNCH

McLAREN COMPLEX

State of the Association Address -- Dr. Abdullahi Gallab

Keynote Speaker – Aisha Musa El-Said

Celebrating the Life of Mohamed Abdel Hai

It has already been 25 years since the esteemed poet, scholar and writer professor Mohamed Abdel Hai

passed away. His wife and intellectual companion, Aisha Musa El-Said, long time educator, prominent

translator, writer and activist is our second speaker. She will reflect on their intellectual life together.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON NAPA VALLEY INFORMAL CONVERSATION

1.30pm - Buses Depart for Napa Valley

All participants and attendees are invited to enjoy the scenery of Napa Valley and to continue informal

conversations about Sudan and South Sudan in the beauty of natural surroundings in the world famous

wine-making region.

We are graciously hosted by Dr. Rue Zeigler and Dr. John Zeigler

Wine Tasting will be available for those who are interested.

Soft Drinks will also be provided for those who prefer not to drink.