SUDAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

28th Annual Conference

LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF SUDAN

May 22 - 24 2009
hosted at

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES

KELLOGG HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER

    55 South Harrison Avenue, East Lansing, Michigan

  (More places available at Butterfield Hall, you pay upon arrival. Resident of Butterfield Hall could park their cars for free at Kellogg Hotel.For inquiries: 517-355-7480 or 517-410-7112)

PROGRAM

Room Assignments at a glance:
Registration: Central Lobby.
Thursday 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p. m.
Friday and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m
Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m

THURSDAY, MAY 21ST 2009

FRIDAY, MAY 22nd 2009

PANEL #1 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Colonialisms, Slavery, Tagle, and Languages of Power

CHAIR: Stephanie Beswick

1. "Slavery and Bari Resistance During the 19-Century Slave-Trading Era in South Sudan," Stephanie Beswick, Ball State University
2. "Thank Goodness Habeus Corpus Did Not Run in Nahud": Police Investigations and the Arrest of Criminals in Colonial Sudan, 1924-1956," Will Berridge, University of Durham, England
3. "Tagle History, Culture and Language - An Insider's View," Marcus Jaeger, University of Köln, Germany
4. "Talking Hybridity: Languages of Power," Christopher Vaughan, University of Durham, England

Lunch (on your own) 1:-00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

PANEL #2 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Education in Sudan

CHAIR: Malik Balla

1. "Sudan American Foundation for Education," Dr. Lee Burchinal, Independent Scholar
2. "General Education in Sudan: An Analytical Perception," Amani Mohamed El Obeid, Centre d'Etude and Documentation Economique Juridique et Social (CEDE), Cairo
3. "Lost Girls Find Their Voices," Laura Deluca, University of Colorado, Boulder

COFFEE (4:30:-5:30 p.m.) Room 108 AB

PANEL #3 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Sufis, Construction of Self and Language and Culture in Courts

CHAIR: Randall Fegley

1. "Half Baked Truths: Silence in Sudanese Construction of Self," Mohamed H. Mohamed, University of Windsor, Canada
2. "Language and Culture of Sudanese Courts," Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College
3. "Juba Arabic: a case-study of language and cultural boundaries," Catherine Miller, CNRS-France University Aix en Provence Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, Morocco

PANEL #4 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Room 105 AB, Memorial to Tayib Salih
Chair: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Speakers: Malik Balla; Khalid Musa Dafalla; Talha Gibriel; Abdullahi Ibrahim

Board Meeting 9:00-10:00 p.m. Room 105 AB

SATURDAY, MAY 23RD, 2009

PANEL #5 10.00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m Room 105) PANEL TITLE: Languages and Cultures

CHAIR: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

1. "The Perception of Colors in the Sudanese Languages and Cultures," Baquie Badawi Muhammad, African Art History, Indiana University
2. "A Preliminary Meroitic Site Report on Abu Erteila," Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College
3. "The Iron Industry of Precolonial Nubian Kordofan," Jay Spaulding, Kean University
4. "Iron and Stone: Social Meaning Found Through The Juxtaposition of Grave Goods from a Napatan Warrior Burial," George A. Herbst, University of California, Santa Barbara
   

COFFEE BREAK Noon -1:00 p.m. Room 108 AB

Lunch on your own

PANEL #6 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Linguistic Endangerment and Language Wars

CHAIR: Yongo Bure

1. "An Historical Verdict on the Discourse of Linguistic Endangerment in the Sudan," Ashraf Abdelhay (Cambridge University) and Sinfree Makoni (Pennsylvania State University)
2. "War and Peace in Sudanese Languages," Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College
3. "Pious Pop: The Transformation of Sufi Poetic Genres in Contemporary Sudan," Noah Salomon, University of Chicago Divinity School

   COFFEE BREAK: 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. Room 108 AB
   
   Business Meeting 4:00-5:00 p.m. Room 105 AB
   

BANQUET/DINNER: 5:00 p.m. Room: Red Cedar AB

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: OWEN A. CLARKE
Office of the Presidential Envoy to Sudan -- U.S. State Department

PANEL #7 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Revamping Anthropological Analysis

CHAIR: Yongo Bure

1. "Racist Tendencies in Sudanese Folklore," Abdel Gabar, Khartoum
2. "A Story to Make the Goat Laugh," Jay O'Brien, Purdue University
3. "From 'Harmful Traditions' to 'Pathologies of Power,': Re-Vamping the Anthropological Analysis of Health in Sudan," Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University
   

PANEL #8 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Room 105 AB PANEL TITLE: Islamism, Language and Education

CHAIR: Malik Balla

1. "The National Congress Party Between Islamism & Nationalism," Abdel Salam Sidahmed, University of Windsor, Canada
2. "Political Economy of the Islamist State and the ICC: The NIF Regime and the Darfur Genocide in the Sudan," Lako Tongun, Pitzer College
3. "Language and Education in Southern Sudan," B. Yongo Bure, Kettering University