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sudan in the world Sudan Studies Association 31st Annual Conference

May 18-20, 2012Memorial UnionArizona State UniversityTempe, Arizona

Acknowledgements

Sudan Studies Association (SSA) would like to express its thanks to the groups and persons, especially Arizona State University faculty, staff and students, who came together to make this year’s meeting exceptional. Our program has been greatly enhanced in many ways by the great generosity of Arizona State University.

The SSA acknowledges especially the distinguished contributions made by the following sponsors:

Dr. Robert Page, Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Foundation Professor of Life Sciences

Dr. Elizabeth Langland, Vice Provost and Dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (ASU West Campus); Interim Dean of Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dr. Patrick Kenney, Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dr. Joe Cutter, Director, School of International Letters and Cultures

Dr. Mary Margret Fonow, Director, School of Social Transformation

Dr. Joel Gereboff, Head of Faculty of Religious Studies in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Dr. Linda Lederman, Outgoing Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dr. Neal Lester, Associate Vice President of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development and Profes-sor of English

Dr. Daniel Rothenberg, Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs

Dr. Arna Bontemps: Head of Faculty of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation

ASU Conference Team

Dr. Abdullahi A. Gallab, African and African-American Studies/Religious Studies (SSA President-Elect and Program Chair)

Dr. Souad T. Ali, Head of Classics and Middle East Studies (SSA Board Member)

Roxane Barwick, Communications Coordinator Sr. (program and website design, e-mail communications)

Student Assistants to Program Chair

Andrianna Swanson, Joseph Thomason, and Hannah Schmidl

Artwork: Hamid Ayoub

Sudan Studies Association31st Annual Conference

May 18 -20, 2012

Arizona State UniversityMemorial UnionTempe campus

http://sudan.shprs.asu.edu

ECOLOGY (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Yongo-Bure, Kettering University

Presenters: Dr. Bushra Babiker, Former Professor, University of Khatoum, “Time for Reverse Urbanization in Sudan”

Kevin Boueri, Macalister College, “Two Hundred Years of ‘Develop ment:’ Modernist Planning and Inattention to South Sudan’s Ecology”

Dr. Ali Salih, ON Semiconductor & Sudanese American Center, Mesa, Arizona, “Energy and Technology Planning: Relevance to Sudan and the Social Impact”

NEW DISCOVERIES IN SUDAN ARCHEOLOGY (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Desi Usman, Arizona State University

Presenter: Dr. Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College, “Discovering the Lost Temple of Abu-Erteila”

2:45 - 4:15 Sudanese Diaspora: A First Generation (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University

Featuring: Ahmed Gallab, musician

4:30 - 5:30 Board Meeting (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Randall Fegley, Pennsylvania State University

Friday - Sunday Book Display (MU Ventana 241B)

New releases of scholarly books about Sudan will be displayed and available for purchase from Sun Devil Bookstores.

Friday, May 18, 2012

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sudan in the world8 - noon Open Registration (Memorial Union 2nd floor)

8:30 - 9 Refreshments (MU Ventana 241B)

9 - 9:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks (MU Ventana 241B)

Dr. Abdullahi Gallab, Sudan Studies Association President Elect and Program Chair

Dr. Elizabeth Langland, Vice President at West Campus and Dean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences , and Interim Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

SSA Presidential Address (MU Ventana 241B)

Dr. Randall Fegley, Sudan Studies Association President

10 -11:15 Honoring a lifetime of distinguished scholarship of Dr. Gabriel Warburg, Haifa University (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College

11:30 - 12:45 Lunch

1 - 2:30 Concurrent Session 1

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE (MU Graham 226)

Chair: Dr. Ismail Abdalla, William and Mary College

Presenters: Dr. Scopas S. Poggo, Ohio State University, “Sources for Reconstructing the Historical Past of the Sudan: The Case of South Sudan”

Dr. Jay Spaulding, Kean University, “‘Old Men Who Know the Boundaries:’ Some Checks and Balances in Local Government”

Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania, “Sultan Ali Dinar and the 1st World War: Personal and Political Implications, 1910-1916”

1 Friday, May 18, 2012

9:45 - 11:15 Concurrent Session 3

SUDANESE WOMEN IN TRANSITIONAL WORLDS (MU Graham 226) Panel Organized by Dr. Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Chair: Dr. Stanlie James, Arizona State University

Participants: Dr. Amal Hassan Fadlalla, University of Michigan, “Subaltern Visibilities: Sudanese Women in the Post(Clooney)al Era”

Dr. Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), “Sudanese Women in Motion: Discourses of ‘Home’ and (Trans)-National Belongings”

Dr. Souad Ali: Arizona State University, “Sudanese (Islamist) Women Activists and the Failure to Negotiate Peaceful Coexistence”

THEMATIC CONVERSATIONS (MU Ventana 241B) Organized by Dr. Abdullahi Gallab

Chair: Abdullahi Gallab, Arizona State University

Participants: Dr. Peter Woodward, Reading University (United King- dom), “Challenges and Prospects of State Building”

Dr. Salman M. Salman: Former Lead Counsel with the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank, “The Challenge of Abyei”

Dr. Ali Taha Ayoub: Freelancer, “Barbed Wire between the Sudan and Egypt”

THE LOST BOYS AND THE CHANGES IN SUDAN (MU Coconino 246) Panel Organized by Dr. Carlos A. Jones

Chair: Dr. Akua Duku Anokye, Arizona State University

Participants: Dr. Carlos A. Jones, Lost Boys Center for Leadership Development (LBCLD) Board of Directors President

Tanya Rountree, LBCLD Board of Directors Member

Jany Deng, LBCLD Programs Manager

William Pay Tuoy-Giel: Sudanese Community Association of Arizona President

Saturday, May 19, 2012

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STATE BUILDING – IDENTITY FORMATION (MU Graham 226)

Chair: Dr. Ali Salih, ON Semiconductor and Sudanese-American Center, Mesa Arizona.

Presenters: Dr. Amir Idris: Fordham University, “Rethinking Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Sudan”

Sahar Alfaki, “Ethnicity and its Impact on Sudan’s National Integration: The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement Model”

Dr. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College, “ORA Analysis as a Tool for ‘Deep Diving’ into Sudan’s Islamist Politics”

SLAVERY (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Ali Ali-Dinar, University of Pennsylvania

Presenters: Dr. Adam Mahamat, University of Maroua, Cameroon, “Visits and Speeches on the Areas of Memoir of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Local Significations, Global Impact”

Dr. Stephanie Beswick, Ball State University (Indiana), “Dinka Military Resistance during the Turko-Egyptian Slave-Raiding Era in South Sudan”

Dr. Chouki El Hamel: Arizona State University, “The Interplay between Slavery, Race and Color Prejudice in Morocco”

LANGUAGE AND POLITICS (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Peter Woodward, Reading University UK

Presenters: Dr. Taha A. Taha, Florida A & M University, “The Lexicon in Endangered Languages: The Case of Dongolawi Nubian”

Dr. Mahgoub El-Tigani Mahmoud,Tennessee State University, ”Persistent Originality in Sudanese Political Reality”

Dr. Ibrahim Hamid Badr York University, Toronto, Canada, “Sudan: The Lost Opportunities” Please watch video: http://www.youtube.com watch?v=7okF15IeSXE

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RUSSIAN AND CHINESE PERSPECTIVES ON SUDAN (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Sam Laki: Central State University (Ohio)

Presenters: Reginald Smith, “Chinese Perspectives on Sudan and the Partition”

Dr. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University, “Sudan through Russian Eyes, 1848-2012”

Dr. Abdel-Rahman Ibrahim Mohamed, Boston Theological Institute, “Duse Mohamed Ali and the Grooming of Anticolonial Leadership in Developing Countries”

OIL (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University

Presenters: Even Kvelland, “A New Nation, a Brighter Future? Strategic Norwegian Oil Development Assistance in South Sudan”

Al-Sir Sidahmed, Journalist, “Oil and Politics in Sudan: A Missed Opportunity”

Angelia Sanders, Civilian-Military Fusion Centre, “The National Effects of Sudan and South Sudan’s Oil Dispute”

PARTICIPATORY UNDERSTANDING OF SUDANESE ETHNIC GROUPS (MU Graham 226)

Roundtable Organized by Tracy Van Holt and Janna Caspersen

Chair: Dr. Stephanie Beswick, Ball State University (Indiana)

Participants: Dr. Tracy Van Holt, East California University

Janna Caspersen, East California University

Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, East California University

4:15 - 4:45 Break



11:30 - 12:45 Lunch


DARFUR, ADDIS ABABA AGREEMENT (MU Graham 226)

Chair: Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch

Presenters: Dr. Daniel Rothenberg, Arizona State University, “Genocide in Darfur: What this Controversy teaches us about Law, Meaning, and Politics of ‘The Ultimate Crime’”

Siddig Musa, “Question? Of Sudan Future After the Separation of the South”

Dr. Abdel Majid Ali Bob, Independent Scholar, “The 40th Anniversary of Addis-Ababa Agreement”

TERRITORIAL PARTITION AND REBELLION (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Andrew Barnes, Arizona State University

Presenters: Mohamed Salim, The Ohio State University, “The Process of the Fragmentation of Territories: The Sudan Case”

Dr. Anne Bartlett, “On Becoming a Rebel: What Armed Uprisings Mean for the Future of the Sudans”

Sabir Abu-Saadia, Darfour Solidarity Group, South Africa, “Rethinking the Myth of External Factors in the Sudanese Conflict”

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Amal Hassan Fadlalla, University of Michigan

Presenters: Dr. Marcus Jaeger, Cologne University, “The Outsider and the Outside in Dongolawi and Kenzi Proverbs”

Mohamed Mukhtar, “Conflict and Post-Conflict Sudan, and the Fate of Education: The Case of The University of Java”

Brendan Tuttle, Temple University, “Everyday Places of Security: Place, Marriage, and Negotiation in Bor, South Sudan”

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Keynote Speaker: Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan

Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman was appointed United States Special Envoy for Sudan on March 31, 2011. Immediately preceding his tenure as Special Envoy, he served as U.S. Senior Advisor on North-South Negotiations, where he led the U.S. team focused on supporting on-going negotiations between the parties to Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Ambassador Lyman previously worked

as an adjunct senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. From 1999 to 2003, he was executive director of the Global Interdependence Initiative at the Aspen Institute.

Ambassador Lyman’s previous career in government included assignments as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1981-1986), U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (1986-1989), Director of Refugee Programs (1989-1992), U.S. Ambassador to South Africa (1992-1995), and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1996-1998). From 2008-2010, he was a member

of the African Advisory Committee to the United States Trade Representative. He began his government career with the U.S. Agency for International Development and served as USAID Director in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1976 to 1978.

Ambassador Lyman is a member of several boards, including, the Fund for Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the board on African science academy development for the National Academy of Sciences.

Ambassador Lyman has a PhD in political science from Harvard University. He has published books and articles on foreign policy, African affairs, economic development, HIV/AIDS, UN reform, and peacekeeping. He has published op-eds in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, and International Herald Tribune. His book, "Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy" (U.S. Institute of Peace Press), was published in 2002. He was co-director of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report, "More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa", issued in 2006, and co-editor of "Beyond Humanitarianism: What You Need to Know About Africa and Why It Matters" (Council on Foreign Relations) published in 2007.

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5 - 7 “Sudan and South Sudan: A Fragile Peace” Keynote Address by Princeton N. Lyman and Dinner Banquet (Old Main, Carson Ballroom)

Welcome and introductions by Robert E. Page, Arizona State University Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Robert E. Page, Jr. is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Foundation Professor of Life Sciences. He was the Founding Director of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University (2004-2011). He joined ASU in 2004 after spending 15 years on the faculty of the University of California Davis where he served as Chair of Entomology from 1999-2004.

His background is in behavior and population genetics and the focus of his current research is on the evolution of complex social behavior. Using the honey bee as a model, Dr. Page has dissected their complex foraging division of labor at all levels of biological organization from gene networks to complex social interactions. Dr. Page has published more than 200 research papers and articles and is listed as a “highly-cited author” by the ISI Web of Knowledge, representing the top 1/2 of 1 percent of publishing scientists.

He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (the Humboldt Prize) in 1995, the highest honor given by the German government to foreign scientists. In 2010 he was elected to the Leopoldina - the German National Academy of Science, the longest continuing academy in the world. Dr. Page is also an Elected Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (1999), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1991), Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2009-2010).

Arizona State University has developed a new model for the American research university, creating an institu-tion that is committed to excellence, access and impact. ASU measures itself by those it includes, not by those it excludes. ASU pursues research that contributes to the public good; and ASU assumes major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that surround it.

In order to become that model for the New American University, ASU has undergone some radical changes over the last few years. Like many universities, we have added new buildings, hired new faculty and brought in new students. But, unlike many of our peers, we have also undertaken a massive reorganization of our institution. We have torn down walls between disciplines and encouraged collaboration among diverse units. We have altered the trajectory of the university and reevaluated the role that universities play in society, in the economy and in education at all levels. We have changed the relationship between ASU and Arizona.

By breaking the mold, ASU has become a place where local solutions have global impact.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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11:30 - 1 “The Nile River Basin: Why Has Cooperation Proven Elusive?” Keynote Speaker and Lunch Banquet (MU Ventana 241B)

Welcome and introductions by Dr. Mary Margaret Fonow, Director, ASU School of Social Transformation

Keynote speech by Dr. Salman M.A. Salman, former Lead Counsel and Water Law Advisor, Legal Vice Presidency, The World Bank

Dr. Salman M.A. Salman is former Lead Counsel and Water Law Advisor with the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank in Washington DC. Before joining the World Bank, he worked as a Legal Officer with the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome Italy. Prior to that, he taught at the Law School of the University of Khartoum in Sudan. He is the author or editor of nine books, and has published more than forty articles and book chapters on water law. Some of his books have been translated to and published in Arabic, Chinese, French and Russian languages.

Dr. Salman has given lectures and presentations on water law at a number of universities and international conferences, and was the Director of the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law in 2001 on “Water Resources and International Law.” In addition to water law, Dr. Salman works on social development issues (indigenous peoples, resettle-ment and international migration) as well as human rights. He is the editor of the World Bank “Law, Justice and Development Series,” and a member of the editorial boards of a number of Journals, including Water International and Water Policy. Dr. Salman obtained his LL.B. from the University of Khartoum Law School, and holds an LL.M. and a JSD from Yale Law School.

Friday - Sunday Art Exhibit by Sudanese artist Hamid Ayoub (MU Ventana 241B)

Born in Sudan in 1967, and presently living in Ottawa, Hamid Ayoub is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan University of Sciences and Technology, with a specialization in Textile Design. For him, art is ever present because we are surrounded by shapes and colours which are the pulse of any artistic creation. Every-day sights and situations shape the work of the artist. Hamid Ayoub depicts the emotions of the human spirit through colour and movement. Different mediums are used to render the entire spectrum of life experiences. Hamid’s work has been exhibited in many venues in Sudan, Niger, France, Holland, England, the United States and Canada. http://hamidayoub.com/index.html

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SUDAN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Souad Ali, Arizona State University

Presenters: Dr. George Hatke, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, “The Camel and Ancient Nubia’s Nomadic Fringe”

Mohamed Senousy, “The Pottery Art of Nubia and its Technical Reflections”

Dr. Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College, “Mapping the History of Sudan”

SOUTH SUDAN AFTER INDEPENDENCE (MU Graham 226)

Chair: Dr. Angelita Reyes, Arizona State University

Presenters: Dr. Yasir Awad Eltahir, “The Republic of Sudan after South Sudan Independence: Falling Apart or Holding Together?”

Mohamed Mukhtar, “South Sudan and the Challenges Ahead”

Dr. Lako Tongun, Pitzer College (California), “Destiny Reclaimed, Reflections on July 9th, 2011 and the Future of the Two Sudans”

SUDAN IN THE WORLD (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Ibrahim Hamid, York University

Presenters: Andrés Cartagena-Troche, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, “Sudan through the Lens of National Geographic Magazine”

Guma Komey, Max Plank Institute of Social Anthropology, Germany “Back to War in Sudan: A State or International Community Failure?”

Dr. Hasan Abdin, former Sudanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, “History and Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Sudan”

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SUDAN AND FUTURE SOCIAL CHANGE (MU Ventana 241B)

Chair: Dr. Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University

Presenters: Bashir Bakkar, former Sudanese diplomat, “A Road Map to Sustainable change in the Sudan”

Dr. Malik Balla, Oakland University (Michigan), “When Unbalanced Development Causes a Revolt: An Analysis of The Jingo, Pegs of the Earth”

CONFLICT, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWO SUDANS (MU Graham 226) Panel organized by Dr. Marc J. Cohen

Chair: Dr. Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles

Participants: Marc J. Cohen and Tara R. Gingerich, Oxfam America, “U.S. Support for Security Reform in South Sudan”

El-Fateh Osman and Sahar Ali, Oxfam America, “Local Participation and Local Capacity-Building in Protracted Crises: The Case of Sudan”

Noah Gottschalk, Skye Wheeler, Oxfam America, “The Conflict- Security-Development Nexus along the Sudan-South Sudan Border”

DEVELOPMENT DURING CRISIS (MU Coconino 246)

Chair: Dr. Jay Spaulding, Kean University

Presenters: Dr. BenaiahYongo-Bure, Kettering University, “South Sudan: Its Neighbors and Development”

Yetunde Odeyemi, ADRA, “Relevance of Community Development and Relief Work in South Sudan through the Eyes of a Faith Based International NGO”

4:45 - 6:15 Business Meeting (MU Ventana 241B)

1981-82 Richard Lobban

1982-83 Ahmed El-Bashir

1983-84 James Hudson

1984-85 Carolyn F.-Lobban

1985-86 David Sconyers

1986-87 James Sultan

1987-88 Jay Spaulding

1988-89 Ismail Abdalla

1989-90 Constance Berkley

1990-91 Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

1991-92 Milton Coughenour

1992-94 M I Shoush

1994-96 Nelson Kasfir

1996-98 Ahmed El-Bashir

1998-00 Ann Lesch

2000-02 Abdallahi Ali Ibrahim

2003-2005 Michael Kevane

2005-2007 Ali b. Ali Dinar

2007-2009 Beniah Yongo-Bure

2009-2011 Stephanie Beswick

2011-2013 Randall Fegley

2013-2015 Abdullahi Gallab (currently President Elect)

Contact : Sudan Studies Association President Elect Abdullahi GallabSchool of Historical, Philosophical and Religious StudiesTEL: (480) 965-2921 | email: [email protected]://sudan.shprs.asu.edu/

Former Sudan Studies Association Presidents

The Sudan is entering the 21st century in a very different form and substance than that which we have seen any time before. July 9, 2011, will go down in history not only as a momentous day for the newest state of South Sudan, but also as a signifi-cant signpost in the lives of millions of people in that state, in the greater Sudan, in Africa and in the world at large. Neither the issues of unity and separation are yet over nor are the consequences of past developments now settled. The complex past and current experiences of the Sudan are going to be a subject or study and investigations for years to come. Sudan Studies Association, in its first conference after the split of the country into two Sudans, welcomes the opportunity to initiate the future of Sudan studies by revisiting this gigantic corpus of existing knowledge, and by being the primary academic forum for scholars to share their latest work in the field of Sudanese studies at large. The Sudanese experience and its develop-ments have not just encouraged studies of the past of the Sudan; they also open the door wider to scholars from all disciplines, intellectuals and knowledge workers the possibility of arriving at a new, and more refined, understanding of the Sudan, its people, human experience, institutions of power and their entanglements with time, place and the world.

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