We invite you to attend the upcoming Sudan Workshop, a two-day event dedicated to deep analysis and discussion of the historical, political, and cultural dynamics shaping Sudan and South Sudan.
Register for the keynote (Sep 17, 5:00pm)
Workshop on the Two Sudans
Location:
Graduate Center CUNY, Room 9206
365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10035
Keynote Address
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Abdullahi An-Na’im, Emory University
The Imperative of Re-Making the World on our own Terms
Workshop Session
Friday, September 18th, 2026
8:30-9am: Light breakfast available
9am-9:30am: Welcome and Introductions
9:30am-11:00am: Panel 1
Noaman Mousa, UCLA
Rethinking Sudan: Structural Analysis and Policy Implications
Mustafa Shouia, University of Toronto
The Hooded Vulture in Sudan: State Violence and the Allegories of Suffering in Sudan’s Second Civil War (1983-2005) and the April 2023 War
Aroob Alfaki, University of Khartoum
TBD
11:00am-12:30pm: Panel 2
Nada Ali, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Street Vendor Narratives from Sudan and South Sudan
Matthew Benson-Strohmayer, London School of Economics
Predatory peace: How peace settlements in Sudan and South Sudan reorganise rather than resolved the fiscal foundations of war
Bayan Abubakr, Yale University
Historicizing the Sudans as a Loci of Racial Capitalism
12:30pm-1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm-2:45pm: Panel 3
Zachary Mondesire, Boston University
Watching Khartoum from Juba
Jok Madut Jok, Syracuse University
Debating Failure: South Sudan Between Breakdown of Services and State Impotence to Assert Control
Raga Makawi, London School of Economics
Violence and Becoming: A New Paradigm to Escape the Grammar of Transition
2:45pm-4:15pm: Panel 4
Kholood Khair, Confluence Advisory
TBD
Khalid Medani, McGill University
‘War Making’ and ‘State Making’ in the New Global Order:Militants, Militias and the ‘Logic’ of Political Violence in Sudan’s War
Alex de Waal, Tufts University
Genocide by Attrition in Sudan
4:15pm-4:30pm: Break/Audience departs
4:30pm-5pm: Discussion about next steps
