Also song scholarship needs to be launched in this conference. The African perspective is especially called for in proposals and panels addressing issues of conflict and peace in Africa. The proceedings were published in a seminal work in the scholarship on the place in Sudan in the continent. Young scholars are urged to explore this archive of scholarship to contextualize our contemporary quest to understand the predicament of Sudan in African lights. This emphasis on the African core is not intended to discourage scholars of straight Sudanese issues from sending proposals.
Conferences are too rich and relaxed to allow such a cutoff.
In putting these individual papers together in panels, we will endeavor to bring out the African component. We hope to do this by a variety of ways including the appointment of discussants and shrewd chairs. Special Guests of our conference We secured the acceptance of Tayib Salih and Jim Faris to give talks at our traditional lunch and dinner meetings. PS Participants are kindly requested to abide by the deadline for submitting their paper and panel proposals. The program committee is keen to have its input in streamlining the papers to address the African comparative element.