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DEJKhartoumnewsletter,indicatingthescientificac-tivitiesofthecentrefromSeptember2016toJanuary2017-inconjunctionwithitsmainpartners.Thenextnewslettersshallbepublishedonatrimestrebasisandwillpresentandshareupcomingeventsandscientificcontributions.

Wewould like to seize this opportunity toexpressourgratitudeandbestwishes toDr.AliceFranck,whoafterthreeyearsintheroleofCoordina-torofCEDEJKhartoumhasresumed,startingfromSeptember2016,herpositionas‘MaîtredeConfé-rence’inGeographyatParis1Pantheon-Sorbonne.Notwithstanding,sheremainsveryactivewithintheSudanesedomainanddeeplyaffiliatedtotheCE-DEJKhartoumasanAssociateResearcher.

WearealsoproudtoillustrateournewlogodesignedbyJulienRabotteau.TheprominantBlueandWhite colors not only evoque themeeting oftheBlueandWhiteNileswithinSudan,butequal-lysymbolizetransnationalconnectionswiththewi-der region,extending fromtheGreatLakes to theMiddle-East,throughtheHornofAfricaandtheMe-diterraneanshores.

Wehope that the informationcontained inthisNewsletterwillprovideausefulsourceofinfor-mation.It introducesourstudentsandresearchersand should provide an avenue for our readers tokeepabreastofouractivitesinSudanandabroad.

Wewishyouahappynewacademicandnon-academicyear2017,andwelookforwardmee-tingyouinKhartoum.

Jean-NicolasBach,CoordinatorCEDEJKhartoum

AliceKoumurian,Projectofficer

A Perspective on Contemporary SudansM i g r a t i o n - S o c i a l S t u d i e s - R e l i g i o n

Upcoming EventsOn February 22th,2017,at4pm,Mahasin Yousif,PhDcandidateattheUniversityofKhartoum,affiliateofCEDEJKhartoum,willpresentherdoctoralresearchon«StudyingObliteratedHistoryinSudan:MethodologicalChallenges».

On March 6th,2017,at4pm,DrSusanne JasparsfromtheUniversityofBristolwillpresentherPhDresearchonthehistoryoffoodaidinSudan.

On March 16-17th,2017,threeofCEDEJKhartoumre-searchers,Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Katarzyna Grabska and Mohamed A. G. Bakhit,willpresentapanelattheRe-fugeeStudiesCentre(RSC)TriennialconferenceatKebleOxfordCollege,“BeyondCrisis:RethinkingRefugeeStu-dies”.Theirpanelisentitled:“Negotiatingcitizenship,inclu-sionandexclusioninforcedmigration”.ThispanelwillalsoincludetheparticipationofMilenaBelloni(AmericanAcade-myinRome),CatherineBrun(OxfordBrookesUniversity),AnitaHäusermannFábos(ClarkUniversity)andOroubEl-Abed(BritishAcademy,CouncilforBritishResearchintheLevant).

On April 6-7th2017, theObservatoire de l’Afrique de l’EstwillorganizeaninternationalWorskshop/Conferencein Hendaya (France). This meeting explores definitionspertainingtoupcomingresearch/publicationsrelatedtotheprogramme.Publicconferenceswillalsobeheldonpo-litical,economicandreligiousstakesinNorthEastAfricainthecontemporaryera.Twohistorianswillpresenttheirresearchabout thehistoryof the “ChateauObservatoireAbbadia”.

EditorialUpcoming EventsPublications Monthly Seminars in CEDEJ KhartoumCongratulations to...International ConferencesIn the PressTransient Students/Researchers in Sudan

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Congratulations to......Elena Vezzadini-TheAfricanStu-dies Association awarded the 2016BethwellA.OgotPrizetoElenaVez-zadini’s book «Lost Nationalism Re-volution, Memory and Anti-colonialResistanceinSudan»(JamesCurreyPress,2015)forthebestbookonEastAfricanStudies.

...Katarzyna Grabska-AssociateresearcheratCEDEJKhartoum and at the Graduate Institute of InternationalandDevelopmentStudiesofGeneva(IHEID),KatarzynaGrabska coordinated from January 2014 to December2015 the research programme«Time to Look atGirls:Adolescent Gir-ls Migration andDevelopment »with Nicoletta DelFranco and Mari-na de Regt (withthesupportof theSwiss Network ofInternational Stu-dies-SNIS).Thisresearchprogrammeresulted inthemakingof«2Girls»(2016),adocumentarybyMarcoSperoni.«2Girls»,whichfocusesonthemigrationtrajectoriesoftwoteenagegirlsinBangladeshandEthiopia,wasrewardedtwicein2016,winningtheGrandPrixfortheBestForeignFilmattheWar-sawInternationalHumanDocFilmFestivalandtheRomeInternationalFilmFestival(RIFF)AwardfortheBestItalianDocumentary.

...Laure CrombéwhodefendedherPhDthesisonJa-nuary 16th, 2017 in Paris Ouest Nanterre University: «Enjeuxd’échelles,enjeuxpolitiques:l’approvisionnementet l’accès à l’eau dans les quartiers périphériques duGrandKhartoum(Soudan)»,underthesupervisionofDrAlainDubressonandOlivierGraefe.Jury:Prof.AlainDU-BRESSON(ParisOuestNanterreUniversity),Prof.OlivierGRAEFE (FribourgUniversity),Prof.Sylvy JAGLIN (Pa-ris-EstMarne-la-ValléeUniversity),ProfessorÉricDENIS(CNRS);Prof.DavidBLANCHON(Paris-OuestNanterrelaDéfenseUniversity);Prof.KathrynFURLONG(MontrealUniversity).LaureCrombéreceivedthesupportofCEDEJKhartoumduringherfieldworkinSudan.

...Dr. Elwassila SaedforhisnewpositionasDeanoftheFacultyofEconomicandSocialStudies,UniversityofKhar-toum.Hesucceeded toDr.HassanElhajAli in January2017.TheTeamofCEDEJKhartoumwillmaintainandgoonimprovingitsstrongpartnershipwiththeFaculty,initiatedwithDr.Hassan’s.

Alice Franck, Jean Gardin and Olivier Givre,«BloodandtheCity,Animal Representations and Ur-ban(Dis)ordersduringthe‘FeastoftheSacrifice’inIstanbulandKhar-

toum»,Anthropology of the Middle East,Volume11/2016.

Alice Franck, « Insécurité foncière généralisée àKhar-toum:quandlestitresdepropriéténeprotègentplusdesprédationspubliques»,Métropolitiques,November2016.

Laure Crombé and Guillaume Sauloup,«Autoritarisme,hybridationetpratiquesdupouvoirdans leGrandKhar-toum:uneétudedesservicesdel’eauetducommercederue»,L’Espace Politique,publishedonlineonDecember9th,2016.https://espacepolitique.revues.org/4018

Clément Deshayes,«Émergencedenouveauxgroupescontestatairesurbainsetdynamiquesdelasemi-clandesti-nitéauSoudan»,Confluences Méditerranée,2016/3(N°98),p.61-73.

Giorgio Musso,La caserna e la moscea. Militari e isla-misti al potere in Sudan,PrefazionediGianPaoloCalchiNovati,Carrocieditore,2017.

Katarzyna Grabska, South Su-daneseinKhartoum:TheHouseinAmarat” (withPeterMiller),Egypte/MondeArabe,2016,vol.14.

Katarzyna Grabska, «Eritrean Mi-gratoryTrajectories ofAdolescenceinKhartoum:(Im)mobility, Identities,andSocialMedia»,inNetworks of Knowledge Production in Sudan. Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies,SondraHaleandGadaKa-doda(ed.),LexingtonBooks,September2016.

Publications«LeSoudanaprèsl’indépendanceduSoudanduSud»,directedbyAlice Franck and Elena Vezza-dini, Egypte Monde Arabe. No-vember2016.

Monthly Seminars in CEDEJ Khartoum“DemocracyandPoliticalPartiesintheArabWorld.CaseStudy:SudanandLebanon”.APhDseminarbyAzza Mus-tapha Ahmed,onJanuary23rd,2017,atCEDEJKhar-toum.

International Conferences

Introduction-Jean-NicolasBachTable-Ronde1LaCornedel’Afriqueetsesmarges:NouvellesdynamiqueséconomiquesClélieNallet,IFRI,PrésidentedeséanceBernardCalas,Prof.deGéographie,Univ.BordeauxLes liens commerciaux Soudan du Sud/OugandaPhilippeDanieau,CMA-CGMDjibouti,Les réseaux por-tuaires : Corne de l’Afrique et la péninsule arabiquePierreBlanc,BordeauxSciencesAgro/LAM,La fin de l’hy-dro-hégémonie égyptienne sur le Nil

Annualseminarofthe‘Observatoire de l’Afrique de l’Est’,DGRIS(De-fenceministry/ConseilRégionald’Aquitaine/LAMSciencesPoBordeaux/IRSEMécolemilitaire), directedbyJean-NicolasBach,CoordinatorofCEDEJKhartoum,October13th,2016:

Table-Ronde 2, Influences extrarégionales et réaligne-mentssécuritairesdanslaCornedel’AfriquePatrickFerras,CSBA,PrésidentdeséanceSonia le Gouriellec, IRSEM, Les nouveaux partenaires économiques de DjiboutiGérardPrunier,Chercheurindépendant,La guerre au Yé-men et ses effets dans la Corne de l’AfriqueAleksiYlönen,UniversityInstituteofLisbon,Eritrea: Rede-fining Friends and Foes ?

Theconference‘Metropolization and Liminal Spaces in Greater Khartoum’,washeldonSunday30thOctober,2016attheUniversityofKhartoum.Thisconferenceheraldedtheendofatwo-yearresearchprogrammeentitled«Metro2Sudan»andconductedbyaSudanese/internationalteamofresearchersandstudentsfromtheCEDEJKhartoumandfromtheUniversityofKhartoum.ThisresearchprogrammehasreceivedsupportfromtheAUF(AgenceUniversitairedelaFrancophonie)aswellasseveralotherpartners(Paris8University/LAVUE,theFrenchministryofForeignAffairs/CampusFranceandtheSudaneseministryofHigherEducation):

Introduction-AliceFranck&BarbaraCasciarriPanel1-AzzaAhmedAbdelaziz-TheIn-betweennessofSouther-nersinKhartoum:RecastingDifferentRegistersofStatusthroughNarrativeandExperienceMohamedBakhit-The‘community’citizenshipstatusforSouthernSudaneseinKhartoum.ThecaseofAl-BarakaKatarzynaGrabska-Negotiatingcitizenshipandbelongingindisplacement:NuerinKhartoumAliceFranck-Thesecondurbanmarginalization:Souther-nersinpopularneighbourhoodsofGreaterKhartoumfromalandpropertyanalysis

Panel2–Barbara Casciarri & AliceFranck - Reconfigurationsofthepastoralandagricul-turalin-betweennessinKhartoumState.ClémentDeshayes-Newsocio-politicalactors:thestakesofcategorisationandpoliticalreproductionPeterMiller-Whomtomarry?Anethnographicstudyofmarriagepracticesandstrategiesamongstupper-middleclasscity-dwellersHindMYusuf-TheImpactofurbanizationoneducationprocesses:Youth’slifestrategiesinAl-FatahMohamedABabiker-BetweenLawandPractices.Ren-deringvulnerabledisplacedandstatelessonissuesoflandandidentity

ProfessorHassanElhajAli’sparticipationtotheconference‘The changing character of Africa’s armed forces’(Lesnouveauxvisagesdesarméesafricaines),heldbyIRSEMinParis(Ecolemilitaire),onOctober5-6th2016.

ThankstotheFrenchInstituteanditsFondsd’Alembert,CEDEJKhartoumwasabletoco-fundtheparticipationoffiveofitsaffiliatedresearcherstotheinternationalscientificconference‘Borders and Territorial Reconfigurations in the Middle East and the Sahel’organizedbyCEDEJCairo,heldfromJanuary30thto31st,2017,inAswan.CEDEJKhar-toumthuspresentedapanelentitled“Borders,mobilitiesandState-making”chairedbyProfessorHassanElhajAli(UniversityofKhartoum)andcomposedof:

GéraldinePinauldt(IFG,Paris8University)andNathalieCoste(CERI-SciencesPo,CEDEJKhartoum),«SomalilandetSoudanduSud:Réappropriationscolonialescreationsd’Etatsenmiroir».RaphaëlleChevrillon-Guibert (IRD,PRODIG,CEDEJKhartoum),«Constructionasymétriquedesterritoiresetcontestationdel’EtatdansleSahelcentral:lesenjeuxterritoriauxduboomminierauTchadetauSoudan».BashirSharif(UniversityofKhartoum,CEDEJKhartoum),«ThinkingIslamicBor-dersintheHornofAfrica».Netsreab Ghebremichael (University of Khartoum, CEDEJ Khartoum), “MigrantInfluxes And Their Implications To Border And Territorial Reconfigurations InSub-SaharanAfrica:TheCaseOfEritreaAndSudan”.Duringthisconference,twootherCEDEJKhartoumresearchersalsochairedpa-nels:Dr.Jean-NicolasBach(coordinatorCEDEJKharotum)andDrAliceFranck(Paris8University,CEDEJKhartoum).

Roundtable2ArabicinterferencesintwoYulutexts-PascalBoyeldieu(CNRS,LLACAN)TheArabic lexical contribution to contemporary spokenKoalib-NicolasQuint(CNRS,LLACAN)

Friday,16DecemberRoundtable3Discussion of data – Abeer Basheer, Maha Abdalla,ALShareefWaleed,Elnur Ibrahim,Fatima Idris,Moham-medAbeer,MohammedMohamoud,NashidMohammed,SosalAhmed

Thursday,15DecemberIntroduction -AbeerBashir (UniversityofKhartoum)andStefanoManfredi(CNRS,SeDyL)Roundtable1BorrowingandLoanwords-StefanoManfredi(CNRS,Se-DyL)Arabic loanwords in Fulfulde andHausa -AlAminAbuManga(UniversityofKhartoum)

Theworkshop‘Arabic Loanwords in Sudanese Languages: A comparative Perspective’washeldinCEDEJKhartoumonDe-cember15-16th,2016.Thisworkshopistheresultofajointorga-nizationbetween“SEDYL”and“LLACAN”,twoCNRSlaboratoriesand the University of Khartoum. It was coordinated by StefanoManfredianditreceivedthesupportofPHCNAPATA(FrenchEm-bassyinSudan/CampusFrance):

In the pressJean-Nicolas Bach,InterviewinLeMonde,«Privilégierlastabilitééconomiqueàl’ouverturepolitiqueacrééunesituationexplosiveenEthiopie»,byEmelineWuilberq,September27th,2016.

Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert,onDecember8th2016,answeredtoThierryGarcinonFranceCulture’s«Enjeuxinter-nationaux»aboutthesituationinSudanfiveyearsaftertheindependenceofSouthSudan.

Nathalie Coste,interviewonRadioFranceInternationalfollowingtheincreaseofpricesandpopularstrikes:clickhere

Anne-Laure Mahé,InterviewonthepoliticalandeconomicsituationinSudanon«PlanèteTerre»,channeloftheCentred’EtudesetdeRecherchesInternationalesdel’UniversitédeMontréal:clickhere

Ester Serra Mingot-AspartoftheMarieCurieInitialTrai-ningNetwork(ITN),TRANSMIC(TransnationalMigration,CitizenshipandtheCirculationofRightsandResponsibili-ties),EsterSerraMingotisconductingherPhDon“Trans-nationalsocialprotection:HowSudanesemigrantsintheNetherlandsandtheUnitedKingdomandtheirfamiliesinSudanmakeuseofsocialprotection,locallyandtransna-tionally”.ThisjointPhDproject,betweentheUniversityofMaastricht(Netherlands)andtheUniversityofAix-Marseille(France),runsfrom2014until2017.DuringthecourseofthefieldworkinSudan(mostlyKhartoumandOmdurman),EsterSerraMingotconductedethnographicresearchwiththefamiliesofthemigrantsIhadpreviouslymetandinter-viewedintheNetherlandsandtheUnitedKingdom(UK).

Lucie Révilla isaPhDstudent inPoliticalSociologyaf-filiated to Sciences Po Bordeaux/LAM. She adopted acomparative perspective (Khartoum-Lagos), focusing onthefollowingtopics:theconstructionofsocialauthorityinpopularareas,theroleofgrassrootorganizations(“traditio-nal”andgovernmental)inurbanlocalgovernments,theireffectsintermsofproductionoforderandeverydayjusticeat thescaleof theneighborhood.Fromabottom-upap-proach,shestudieshowpopularareasaregovernedintwomajorAfricanmetropolises,raisingsomeissuessuchas:Whichdiversityofactorsisrevealed?Howtheseareasareorderedandhowthesocialrelationshipsareshapedbytheinhabitantsinrelationtothestate?Whatdoespowerrela-tionshipstellusabouttheurbangovernments?Sheusestheethnographicmethodtoenterintothefabricofpowerrelationships,includingtheambiguitiesandthecomplexitythatitimplies.Sheparticularlycomparestheoverlappingoflocalauthoritiesbetweentraditionalrulers(baaleandba-loguninLagos;‘omda,nazirandshyukhinKhartoum)andlocal governmental organizations (Community Develop-mentAssociationsinLagos,popularcommitteesinKhar-toum).Thoselocal institutionshavebeenhighly involvedinthemaintenanceoforderandintheeverydayjusticeattheneighborhoodscale.Theyareessentialintermediariesbetweenthestateandthesociety,alsoblurringthelinesbetweentheso-calledformalandinformal.Howdosomeactors negotiate under constraint their relationswith thestateisthusonemajorissueraisedbytheresearch.

Clément Méléard isa student inGeographyatParis1Panthéon-SorbonneUniversity.UnderthesupervisionofDrAliceFranck(Paris1)andDrRaphaëlleChevrillon-Guibert(IRD),ClémentisstudyingartisanalgoldmininginSudan.ThesubstantiallossoftheSudaneseoilrevenue,followingthesplitwithSouthSudanin2011,hasledthecountrytodirectitseconomytowardsitsgoldpotential.Thisnewfieldbringstogetherdifferentcross-cuttingissuesthatstillneedtobeexplored.

Transient Students & ResearchersMax Münch,astu-dentinAnthropolo-gyattheUniversityofBayreuth.ForhisMaster’sthesis,heconducted threemonthsoffieldworkinaQuranicschoolinNorthernKordo-fan. In an immer-siveprocess,theresearchwasbaseduponthemulti-sen-sorialfocalpointsofdidactics,socializationandembodiedknowledge.Heparticipatedinthedailylearningroutinetogetaccesstothesocialandexperientialwaysofteaching,learningandknowing.

Vivian HartliefisaDutchmasterstudent.Duringmybache-lorstudiesLiberalArtsandSciences,shespecialisedintwoscientificfields;bothReligionSciencesandEnvironmentalSciences.ThesetwospecialisationslaidthefoundationforhermasterstudyInternationalDevelopmentStudies,whichsheobtainsatUtrechtUniversity.ForthismasterstudyshechosetoconductherresearchinSudan.ThegeneraltopicforherresearchistheSyriancommunitylivinginKhartoumandthechallengestheyfaceinregardtocreatingasustai-nablelivelihood.

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