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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)
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
.
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