20th ICES Organising Committee:
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History of the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES)
The earlier conferences were organised mainly by leading Western scholars in the field, but soon also took place in Ethiopia and Asia. Every conference organisation is conveyed by a ceremony at the end of each conference to one nation with a strong tradition of Ethiopian Studies. As a rule, which had been practiced by the ICES since the 1990s, every third conference goes to Ethiopia and is organised by an Ethiopian committee. Following this, a local committee is formed carrying out the whole organisation, in consultation with the International Organising Committee (IOC), which is consulted on key issues. The previous conferences were:
| ICES1 | Rome, Italy (Accademia dei Lincei) | 1959 |
| ICES2 | Manchester, UK (Manchester University) | 1963 |
| ICES3 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellasie I University) | 1966 |
| ICES4 | Rome, Italy (Accademia dei Lincei) | 1972 |
| ICES5A | Nice, France (Association francaise pour la recherche scientifique en Afrique de l’Est / ARESAE) | 1977 |
| ICES5B | Chicago, USA (University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois) | 1978 |
| ICES6 | Tel Aviv, Israel (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) | 1980 |
| ICES7 | Lund, Sweden (Lund University and the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries) | 1982 |
| ICES8 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) | 1984 |
| ICES9 | Moscow, USSR (Asia and Africa Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences) | 1986 |
| ICES10 | Paris, France (Societe francaise pour les etudes ethiopiennes) | 1988 |
| ICES11 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) | 1991 |
| ICES12 | East Lansing, Michigan, USA (Michigan State University) | 1994 |
| ICES13 | Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto University) | 1997 |
| ICES14 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) | 2000 |
| ICES15 | Hamburg, Germany (Asia-Africa-Institute, Hamburg University) | 2003 |
| ICES16 | Trondheim, Norway (Trondheim University) | 2007 |
| ICES17 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) | 2009 |
| ICES18 | Dirre Dawa, Ethiopia (French Centre of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa & Institute of Ethiopian Studies, in coop. with Dirre Dawa University) | 2012 |
| ICES19 | Warsaw, Poland (Department of African Languages and Cultures, Warsaw University) | 2015 |
| ICES20 | Mekelle, Ethiopia (Mekelle University) | 2018 |
| ICES21 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) | planned |