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

The SSSUK Symposium 2019: a video record

SSSUK's 2019 Annual Symposium took place on 7th September in the Brunei Lecture Theatre, at SOAS, London. Many of the presentations were about the 19th December revolution in Sudan. Here are video recordings. (Video by Moniem Ibrahim.)

Welcome from the SSSUK Chairperson, Gill Lusk.

The role of the Sudanese diaspora in UK in the 19th December revolution: reflections, challenges and the way forward.  Dr Amira Osman, Research Fellow, University College London; Sudanese Women’s Union UK and Ireland. Introduced by Charlotte Martin, Editor of Sudan Studies.

Panel:

Health

Chaired by Dr Rebecca Bradshaw, Archaeologist, Member of SSSUK Committee

Health outbreaks in Sudan: social injustice that led to political change. 

Dr Sara Ibrahim Abdelgalil, consultant paediatrician; President, Sudan Doctors' Union (SDU) UK; UK Spokesperson, Sudan Professionals' Association (SPA).

Silence in Blue: Campaign against sexual violence used in Sudan to crack down on women’s resistance. 

Dr Sara Beleil, consultant psychiatrist; SDU UK Academic Secretary.

Sudan revolution art: a project by the SDU UK to promote healing after the Khartoum massacre. 

Dr Nada Kamal: consultant microbiologist; Deputy Academic Secretary, SDU UK.

Panel:

The state of higher education in Sudan post-30 June 1989

Chaired by Dr Fergus Nicoll, Mahdiya historian and BBC World Service

The state of higher education in Sudan post-30 June 1989.

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.

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

Sudanese women's aspirations and challenges for effective political participation.

Dr Suad Musa, PhD Peace Studies, Bradford University, researcher and activist in development and gender. Chair: Mawan Muortat, South Sudan political analyst; SSSUK Deputy Chairperson.

Panel:

Politics

Chaired by Gill Lusk, SSSUK Chairperson, writer on Sudan.

Challenges facing the new transitional government.

Dr Rosalind Marsden.

Sudan's future: The rationale and regulation of militias and the political process.

Dr Mohamed Elansari Ali, Head of UK Chapter, National Umma Party; Head of Foreign Affairs, Sudan Call UK office.

The Sudanese revolution: The way forward. 

Rashid Sidahmed Elsheikh: Political Activist, Sudanese Communist Party; researcher in Cultural Policy; Poet.

A Perspective from the diaspora.

Afia Abusham, British-Sudanese actress recently returned from Sudan.

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.

Introduced by Dr Abdel Azim El-Hassan, journalist, economist, SSSUK Committee.