BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13030-8470e60a54cb23844b2ff170b282636f@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260823T102244Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T133000 SUMMARY:African Studies Brown Bag Lecture DESCRIPTION:\n“‘The colonial semiotic invention of ‘citizenship’: The co lonial apartheid system in Sudan (1900–1948)”\n\nAshraf Abdelhay holds a doctoral degree in the field of sociolinguistics from the University of Edinburgh. He works for the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) as an associate professor in the program of linguistics and Arabic lexi cography. He has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journal s and has co-edited some books in the field of decolonial sociolinguisti cs\, language policy\, and language and conflict. The current project he is developing (with Sinfree Makoni and Cristine Severo) addresses the s ociolinguistics of protesting.\n\nUnderstanding the ongoing armed confli ct in Sudan requires a critical engagement with the broader historical c ontext of Western colonialism as it played out in Sudan. In this talk\, I will examine the construct of ‘citizenship’ within the framework of th e British colonial apartheid system in Sudan (1900–1948). I will explore how this construct functioned as a structuring element within colonial discourses of stratification\, regulating mobility across indexically ch arged geographies in Sudan. Additionally\, I will demonstrate how the ra cio-semiotic apartheid regime in Sudan reshaped time\, dress\, space\, a nd language/literacy\, with the goal of inventing geopolitically demarca ted\, self-contained ‘races/tribes’. These underlying colonial structure s of racialization would later shape the expectations and experiences of who should be ‘recognized’ as a ‘citizen’ in post-colonial Sudan. I arg ue that the term ‘colonial peace\,’ used by the Resistance Committees in the context of the December Revolution of 2018\, should be understood w ithin the context of the modern paradigm of war\, rooted in these coloni al policies and practices of racial differentiation.\n\n*This speaker wi ll be presenting virtually on Zoom\; however\, we will be hosting a watc h party with refreshments in 335 Willard Building. *\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/african-studies-brown-bag-lecture/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“‘The c olonial semiotic invention of ‘citizenship’: The colonial apartheid syst em in Sudan (1900–1948)”

Ashraf Abdelhay holds a doctoral degree in the field of sociolinguistics from the Unive rsity of Edinburgh. He works for the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar) as an associate professor in the program of linguistics and Ara bic lexicography. He has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and has co-edited some books in the field of decolonial sociol inguistics, language policy, and language and conflict. The current proj ect he is developing (with Sinfree Makoni and Cristine Severo) addresses the sociolinguistics of protesting.

Understanding the ongoing arm ed conflict in Sudan requires a critical engagement with the broader his torical context of Western colonialism as it played out in Sudan. In thi s talk, I will examine the construct of ‘citizenship’ within the framewo rk of the British colonial apartheid system in Sudan (1900–1948). I will explore how this construct functioned as a structuring element within c olonial discourses of stratification, regulating mobility across indexic ally charged geographies in Sudan. Additionally, I will demonstrate how the racio-semiotic apartheid regime in Sudan reshaped time, dress, space , and language/literacy, with the goal of inventing geopolitically demar cated, self-contained ‘races/tribes’. These underlying colonial structur es of racialization would later shape the expectations and experiences o f who should be ‘recognized’ as a ‘citizen’ in post-colonial Sudan. I ar gue that the term ‘colonial peace,’ used by the Resistance Committees in the context of the December Revolution of 2018, should be understood wi thin the context of the modern paradigm of war, rooted in these colonial policies and practices of racial differentiation.

*Th is speaker will be presenting virtually on Zoom; however, we will be hos ting a watch party with refreshments in 335 Willard Building. *

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afric an-studies-brown-bag-lecture/

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