Fifth International Conference on Sudan Studies

List of papers presented.

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Abstracts submitted in advance may be found here, arranged by panel.

Name Title of paper
Professor John Alexander The First Turkiyya
Mohamed Abusabib Political Islam and the Arts: the Sudanese Experience

Ahmed Abushouk

A Sudanese Scholar in the Diaspora: the Life and Career of al-shaykh Ahmed Muhammed al-Surkiti in Indonesia
Mansour Y. ElAgab  
Elsir A.G. Ali Glimpses from the History of Sudanese Singing
Elizabeth Baroudi Ali Women and Development in Sudan
Nada M. Ali Women's Rights in Sudanese Exile Political Discourse

Hassan Nuri El-Amin

General Education in the Sudan
Munzoul Assal Displacement, aid and the predicament of the anthropologist

John Ashworth

 
Arita Baaijens Modern travels among the Beja
Rawa Bakhit Good Governance in Concepts of Local Government in Sudan
Herman Bell and Muhammad Hashim The Difuufa of the Third Cataract: An Enigma
Anders Bjorkelo Private Trade and Entrepreneurship During the Turkiyya
David Chand The Sources of Conflict Between North and South in Sudan
Robert Collins Malakal Revisited: Britain in the Southern Sudan after Fifty Years
Declan Conway Water Resources Development on the Upper Blue Nile: Some Environmental Considerations

Al-Khidir Daloum

Curtis Doebbler Human Rights in Sudan: the Rational and Irrational
Paul Wani Gore  
Simon Harragin Knowledge and the Practice of Relief in Southern Sudan
Yusuf Fadl Hasan Keynote speech: The Cradle and the Core

Muhammad Jalal Hashim

An Orthography for Nobiin: a Contribution to the Debate
Thomas Higel The Coinage of Ali Dinar
P M Holt The Funj Chronicle and Turco-Egyptian Conquest
Aisha Abdallah Hommaida Poverty and Politics: the Case of the Red Sea Hills
Steve Howard Binati Mwalafati: Mahmoud Mohammed Taha and the Republican Sisters
Hassan Ibrahim Strategy, Responses and Legacy of the First Imperialist Era
Hassan Ibrahim Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi: a Master of Manipulation Manipulated, 1934-1944
Amir Idris Identity and Political Discourse among Southern Sudanese in Egypt
Shamil Jeppie The Work of Conquest and Violence

Douglas Johnson

The Trial of 'The Vigilant'
Tania Kaiser Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement: Refuge from Refuge
Aneesa Kassam Napoleon's Story: the Human Tragedy of the War in the Sudan
Michael Kevane and Endre Stiansen Salam and the Islamist Influence on Agricultural Finance in the Sudan
Eisei Kurimoto Analyzing the Distance between the Colonizing and the Colonized: the February 1912 Punitive Patrol against the Pari
Cleophas Lado The Political Economy of Oil Discovery and Mining in the Sudan: Constraints and Prospects on Development
Mark Leopold Violence and Memory in the Sudan/Uganda/Congo Borderlands, 1850-2000

Jok Madut

J. I. Magor Desert Locust Biology and Control Strategies: Sudan's Evolving Regional and International Setting
Ahmed Abdel Makaram The Influences of Western Culture on Present Sudanese Literature (First Impressions). With Special Reference to Hamza Almelik Tambal
Gerasimos Makris  

Charlotte Martin

Mission Churches and Health Policy in Southern Sudan
David Mayo Federalism in Sudan
Simon Mollan The Impact of the 1931 Depression on the Finances of Condominium Sudan

Alice Moore-Harell

The Decline in European Trade in the Sudan from the Early 1860s
Albaqir Mukhtar The Conflict Between the Alien and the Indigenous in Sudanese Islam
Faisal Muhammad Musa The Judiciary and the Nile Fleet in the Mahdiyya
Tim Niblock Sanctions and Pariahhood: the Case of Sudan

Peter Nyaba

The Chollo Predicament
Gerard Prunier The Failure of the 'salam min dhakil' Process

Isaac Riak

Concepts of Development in the Sudan
Oystein Rolandsen The NCA Integrated Development Programme, 1974-1986
Jemera Rone Human Rights and Oil
John Ryle On the Difficulties of Fieldwork
Mahasin El-Safi Somalis in the Sudan since 1945
Abdelrahim Salim The Revival of the Ancient Port City of Suakin
Tigani Seisi The Sudanese Supplementary School in London
Ahmed al-Shahi The Elite of the Minorities. Educated Sudanese and their Role in the State

Stephanie Shanks

Imagining and Managing Survival: a Case Study of the Dinka in Diaspora - Work in Progress
Janet Starkey Perceptions of the Ababda and Bisharin in the Atbai
Endre Stiansen To Be or Not to Be: the Catholic Mission to Central Africa in the Mid-nineteenth Century
Declan O'Sullivan The Death Sentence for Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
John Udal Ja'afar Pasha Mazhar. A Worthy Governor-General, 1866-1871
Gaby Warburg Slatin Pasha in Sudan
Anette Weber Women and War in the Sudan
Justin Willis Patrol No. 32: Colonial Violence and the Nature of Authority among the Nuba
Jon Wilks Sudan-US Relations, 1980-1996

Paul Wilson

 
Philip Winter The Sudan Conservation Trust: a Proposal for Discussion
Peter Woodward Sudan's Foreign Relations since Independence
Siddig Babikr al Zalee The Unlearned Lesson of History: Colonial Policy and Nuba Identity