Sudan

Readers will need no reminder that the war has now been raging in Sudan for two years. Like many we made a plea at Eid two years ago that the combatants draw back from disaster and end the war. This Eid, with great sadness, we urgently repeat our plea. Those risks we identified in 2023 - of countless lives lost, of critical infrastructure destroyed and heritage institutions damaged and looted - all these have come to pass in almost every region of the country.

This year's Symposium and AGM will take place in London on Saturday 5th October. 

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street (off Russell Square), London WC1H 0XG. 

Timings: Registration from 09:15. Symposium from 10:15-17.00.

Programme: panels will be on the following subjects:

SSSUK's 2019 Annual Symposium included a variety of talks related to the 19th December revolution in Sudan. See the video record here.

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 season in London, blending contemporary visual arts, theatre, music, design, films and words from and about Sudan. (Not an SSSUK event, but may be of interest to members.)