SNAC at the 2025 European Conference of African Studies

At the ECAS 2025 in Prague, the SNAC project convened a double panel highlighting Sudanese displacement. 

The SNAC project team organized a double panel session at the 2025 European Conference of African Studies (ECAS) in Prague. This year’s theme was “African, Afropean, Afropolitan” under which the SNAC team proposed a discussion on “Sudanese displacement: capital, identity and agency”. The open call for papers attracted a lot of interest from engaged colleagues, resulting in ten papers. The resulting double sessions on the morning and afternoon of Thursday, June 26 were well attended by the large number of Sudan-scholars attending the conference.

In addition to the panel conveners, Munzoul Assal and Mari Norbakk (whose paper is co-authored with Abdelmageed Yahya), the SNAC affiliated scholars contributed four papers, presented by Liv Tønnessen (co-authored with Samia Al-Nagar), Randa Gindeel (co-authored with Ann-Cathrin Corrales Øverlid). The discussions covered the multifaceted displacement from the ongoing war in Sudan, and opened critical themes of engagement such as the overreliance on tropes such as resilience and solidarity, questioning the ways in which international engagement with Sudanese communities is characterized by shortcomings in both funding and support for the largest humanitarian crisis globally.