2023 Symposium

The 2023 SSSUK Symposium and AGM took place at the Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London, on Saturday 16th September.  See details of the programme here.  Thank you to all our speakers and participants, as well as the SOAS Centre for African Studies! Here are the presentations given on the day.

Justice after Serious Violations and International Crimes Committed in the War in Sudan

Dr Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker and Dr Lutz Oette

Elections in South Sudan: a pathway out of Transition?

Dr Jan Pospisil

Panel:

Politics in the Sudan

The Changing Political Map in Sudan: the case of the ‘mainstream’ parties, the Umma and the DUP

Dr Abdelsalam Sidahmed

Political Parties and the Quest for a National Project

Ali Abdel Latif

Prof. Peter Woodward, Discussant

The Making of South Sudan’s Borders.

Featuring Dr Leben Moro and the late Dr Leonard Logo Mulukwat. A film by Florence Miettaux.

South Sudanese Women’s Traditional Roles and Empowerment in History.

A film by Florence Miettaux.

Abiol Deng, Discussant

Return of Carlo Acefalo

Work by SSSUK member Ricardo Preve led to the return to Italy of a submariner's remains, in a ceremony at Port Sudan on 19th April 2018. Carlo Acefalo died in 1940 on the barren Red Sea island of Barra Musa Khebir after escaping from a sinking submarine with fellow crew members (see Sudan Studies No. 53).

A moment during the excavation and filming on Barra Musa Khebir, October 2017

"Tomba Carlo Acefalo" - The grave of Carlo Acefalo on Barra Musa Khebir (Sudan) with (left to right ) Dr Matteo Borrini (forensic anthropologist), Ricardo Preve (expedition leader and producer of the documentary "Coming Home"), Dr Cosimo Giachetti (archeologist). The remains are in the box in the foreground, covered by the flag of the Italian Navy.

Turning over the remains of Carlo Acefalo to the Red Sea State. Preve and Borrini at the hand over of the remains to the Governor of the Red Sea State on October 9, 2017, Port Sudan.

Italian Ambassador in Sudan Fabrizio Lobasso receives the remains of Italian sailor Carlo Acefalo, who died on the island of Barra Musa Khebir in the wreck of the submarine "Macalle" in 1940, from the Red Sea State Governor at a ceremony in Port Sudan, April 19, 2018. Society member Ricardo Preve led the 4-year process of identifying and recovering the remains.