SSA Conference Program

May 16-18, 2002

Link to Sudan Studies Organization

Preliminary Program
The 21st Annual Meeting
of the
Sudan Studies Association
May 16-18, 2002
"Children of the Sudan"
Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Reading, PA


(click on links below to view abstracts)



Thursday, May 16th, 2002


11:00am-12:30pm: Board Meeting


1:00pm-1:15pm: Opening Remarks

Panel A: 1:15pm-3:30pm: Teaching Children
Chair: Ali Dinar

3:45pm-4:15pm: Art Show Opening

The art show is an installation by well-known artist Khalid Kodi assisted by Elshafei Mohmed, Philip Dar, Kandok Ring, with
text by Salah Elzain.

5:00pm-6:15pm: Open air picnic for all attendees registered, courtesy of Penn State Berks Campus International Fund!

6:30pm-7:45pm: Artistic Performance by Tamador SheikhEddin

8:00pm-9:30pm: Films: (1) New documentary on resettled refugees from southern Sudan, formerly of Kakuma Camp, now in Texas, by documentary filmmaker Megan Mylan, and (2) selection of short documentaries by Miriam Mohamed al-Tayeb


Friday, May 17th, 2002


Panel B: 8:30am-10:15am: Southern Sudan
Chair: Michael Kevane


Panel C: 10:30am-12:15pm: Politics
Chair: Ambrose Beny


Panel D: 10:30am-12:15pm: Children in War
Chair: Sam Laki


12:15pm-1:00pm: General Business Meeting For All Members of SSA


Panel E: 2:00pm-3:45pm: Children's Lives
Chair: Abdullahi Gallab


Panel F: 2:00pm-3:45pm: Children and Literature
Chair: Heather Sharkey

Panel G: 4:00pm-5:00pm: Ali Dinar And The Ango-Egyptian Sudan Policies, 1899-1916
Chair: Carolyn Lobban

5:15-6:15pm Film: Kafi's Story, a documentary about the Nuba Mountains

7:00pm: Banquet Dinner With Clement Janda, Secretary General, All Africa Council of Churches
Religion in the Sudanese Conflict


Saturday, May 18th, 2002


Panel H: 8:30am-10:15am: History
Chair: Stephanie Beswick


Panel I: 10:30am-12:15pm: Childhood


Panel X: 10:30am-12:15pm: TBA



12:30-2:00pm: Lunch With Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch

Bringing Peace to Sudan: Recent U.S. Policy


Panel J: 2:30pm-4:15pm: Speculations
Chair: Ibrahim Badr


Panel K: 2:30pm-4:15pm: Children's Education, Health, and Welfare
Chair: Kevin de Jesus


4:30pm-6:00pm: Films
Nuba Conversations, a follow-up film to Kafi's Story
Under Siege: The Nuba of Sudan, VIsaAfric Productions
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Special Thanks

Special thanks for funding and encouragement provided by Penn State's Africana Studies Center, the Dean of Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, PSU Berks-Lehigh Valley College's Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences PSU Berks Campus' International Fund, Santa Clara University, and the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem.

send email to: mkevane@scu.edu