2019

Symposium and Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Saturday, 7 September 2019 
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 

Welcome from the SSSUK Chairperson, Gill Lusk. 

Dr Amira Osman (Research Fellow, University College London; Sudanese Women’s Union UK and Ireland), The Role of the Sudanese Diaspora in UK in the 19th December Revolution: reflections, challenges and the way forward. 
Chaired by Charlotte Martin (Editor, Sudan Studies) 

Health Panel  Chaired by Dr Rebecca Bradshaw (Archaeologist; SSSUK Committee)
Dr Sara Ibrahim Abdelgalil (Consultant Paediatrician; President, Sudan Doctors' Union (SDU) UK; UK Spokesperson, Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA)), Health outbreaks in Sudan: social injustice that led to political change. 
Dr Sara Beleil (Consultant Psychiatrist; SDU UK Academic Secretary), Silence in Blue: Campaign against sexual violence used in Sudan to crack down on women’s resistance.
Dr Nada Kamal (Consultant Microbiologist; Deputy Academic Secretary, SDU UK), Sudan Revolution Art: a project by the SDU UK to promote healing after the Khartoum massacre.

Dr August Ting Mayai (Research Director, Sudd Institute, Juba; Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University), Fuel subsidy in South Sudan: was it helpful? 
Chaired by Dr Abdel Azim El-Hassan (Economist, Journalist; SSSUK Committee) 

Selma Elrayah (Masters in Life Long Learning, London University; worked in London public libraries for over 20 years), The State of Higher Education in Sudan post-30 June 1989.
Asim Salem, Committee, Khartoum University Alumni Association UK. 
Chaired by Fergus Nicoll (Mahdiya historian and BBC World Service) 

Introduction of SSSUK's new President, the novelist Leila Aboulela. 

Dr Suad Musa (PhD Peace Studies, Bradford University; researcher and activist in development and gender), Sudanese Women's Aspirations and Challenges for Effective Political Participation. 
Chaired by Mawan Muortat (South Sudan political analyst; SSSUK Deputy Chairperson) 

Politics Chaired by Gill Lusk (Chairperson SSSUK; Sudan writer)
Dr Mohamed Elansari Ali (Head of UK Chapter, National Umma Party; Head of Foreign Affairs, Sudan Call UK office), Sudan's Future: The Rationale and Regulation of Militias and the political process.
Rashid Sidahmed Elsheikh (Political Activist, Sudanese Communist Party; researcher in Cultural Policy; poet), The Sudanese Revolution: the way forward.
Afia Abusham (British-Sudanese actress recently returned from Sudan), A Perspective from the Diaspora.
Dr Rosalind Marsden (Associate Fellow, Chatham House), Challenges Facing the New Transitional Government 
 

The Revolution will be Televised, Versified, Sung, Chanted, Worn and Painted: art as mobilisation in the 2019 Sudanese revolution. Dr James Dickins (English teacher, Sudan, 1980-82; Professor of Arabic, Leeds University; writes on Sudanese Arabic, including a Sudanese Arabic-English dictionary, downloadable from https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/711/professor-james-dickins)