2015

Symposium and Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Saturday, 24 October 2015
in association with the 
Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Venue: Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG 

The SSSUK President, Professor Ibrahim el Salahi, D.Litt., opened the proceedings.

Ricardo Preve, Filmmaker and photographer: The wreck of the Italian submarine Macalle at Barra Musa Kebir.

Chris Milner, Director, Transformedia: Who are we? Culture and Identity in South Sudan.

Youth Radicalisation among Sudanese Chaired by Sara Beleil (Consultant Psychiatrist, London NHS)
Kamil Mohamed Sidahmed (Consultant Psychiatrist), Responding to the Call for an Isiamic State.

Rashid Sidahmed Elsheikh (Political and Civil Activist), Otherness and the Question of Identity.

Abdel Karim Ibrahim Omar (Youth, Family and Community Worker), From Gangster to Jihadi.

Ashraf Khalifa (Technology Entrepreneur), The Youth Diaspora Identity Crisis in the West.

Dr Chris Vaughan (Lecturer in African History, Liverpool John Moores University), Making the State in Condominium Darfur; violence, accommodation and the legacies of the Sultans.

Dr Mansour Khalid (former Foreign Affairs Minister and former Advisor to John Garang), Launch of The Paradox of Two Sudans: the CPA and the road to partition (Africa World Books).

Sudanese Singer Shurooq Abuelnas and Keyboard Player Mohamed Makki brought the symposium to a melodic close.