Programme and Themes
The programme of the conference will evolve around the main theme of the conference "Regional and Global Ethiopia - Interconnections and Identities". The main disciplines and sub-disciplines involved are the following:
- Archaeology, paleoanthropology & heritage
- Arts & architecture
- Economics & development studies
- Education & pedagogical science
- History of the states and peoples of the region (political and cultural)
- Human geography, environment & ecology
- Law, governance & political economy
- Philology, literature & linguistics
- Political science & migration studies
- Population & gender studies
- Social anthropology & cultural studies
- Studies of religion
Following is the LATEST schedule for each panels. The schedule within each panels is decided by the panel organizers, but in principle, each presenter will be given 20 minutes presentation time plus 5 minutes discussion time. In addition to this, each panel is given 5 minutes per number of presenters, which could be used for topics such as the panel introduction, according to the discretion of the panel organizer. The schedule has been already finalized, but in case there is any unforseen schedule changes, it will be reflected on this site.
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- By PANEL: List of Panels (List of panels and their schedule with abstract list)
- By AUTHOR: Index by Authors [Authors - Abstracts] (Primary & Secondary Authors Only) (List of authors with their abstract titles and the scheduled time of the respective panels)
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- UDATED PRINTED PROGRAM FORMAT: the latest schedule in the printed program booklet format
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Sunday, 30 September 2018
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm Opening Ceremony
Monday, 1 October 2018
- Common Events
- 09:00 am - 09:45 am: Keynote Speech by Prof. MITIKU Haile and General Information
- Lunch and Tea Breaks
- 11:00 am - 11:30 am: Tea Break
- 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm: Lunch
- 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm: Tea Break
- Panels
- Room01 [IPHC Ground floor]
- 10:00 am - 05:30 pm: 0101 Inter-Disciplinary Interconnections for the Scientific Growth of Ethiopian Archaeology (10 papers; 5h)
- Room02 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 02:00 pm - 06:30 pm: 0208 Musical Instruments and Performance of Peripheral Societies of Ethiopia (08 papers; 4h)
- Room03 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 10:00 am - 12:30 pm: 0307 Entrepreneurship, Enterprises and Social Responsibility (04 papers; 2h)
- 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm: 0309 Development Aid, Food Security Programmes and the Effects (04 papers; 2h)
- Room04 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 10:00 am - 03:00 pm: 0306 Vulnerability and New Solidarities Among Ethiopian Pastoralists: Renegotiating Power and Identities in Ethiopia’s Pastoral Borderlands (06 papers; 3h)
- 03:00 pm - 06:30 pm: 0305 Lands of the Future. Time for Innovation. Can Ethiopia Still Set a Global Example for Equitable Development? (06 papers; 3h)
- Room05 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: 1213 Workshop Panel for Junior Scholars on Horn of Africa Studies (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm: 0517 General Panel "Discussions on Ancient History: The Aksumite Period" (02 papers; 1h)
- Room06 [IPHC Hall 1st floor]
- 10:00 am - 06:30 pm: 0513 Rethinking Ethiopian Studies (12 papers; 6h)
- Room07 [IPHC Hall 2nd floor]
- 10:00 am - 06:30 pm: 0514 "Cartography and Itineraries": Territorial Knowledge and Spatial Networks of Ethiopia and Its Neighbors in Historical Maps and Itineraries (12 papers; 6h)
- Room08 [IPHC Hall 3rd floor]
- 10:00 am - 02:30 pm: 0702 "Justice from Below" Panel 1: Searching for a Right to the City in a Transitional Urban Ethiopia. (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room09 [IPHC Hall 4th floor]
- 10:00 am - 05:30 pm: 0703 Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia. The Interplay of International, National and Customary Law (10 papers; 5h)
- Room10 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm: 0901 External Actors and Forces and Their Impact on Politics in Ethiopia (08 papers; 4h)
- 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm: 0508 New Perspectives on the Relation Between Ottoman-Turkey and the Ethiopian Region (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room11 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: 1003 Child and Youth Migrants in Cities (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 12:00 pm - 04:00 pm: 1001 The Feminisation of Migration: Perspectives and Experiences of Gendered Migrations Within and Outside of Ethiopia (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room12 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 10:00 am - 03:00 pm: 1208 Interconnection of Human Society with Animals in Northeastern Africa (06 papers; 3h)
- 03:30 pm - 06:30 pm: 0610 Recent Studies on Energy, Waste, Sedimentation, Erosion (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room13 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 10:00 am - 06:00 pm: 1209 Local-Knowledge Studies Reconsidered; Creativities, Transmission, Sharing and Beyond. (11 papers; 5.5h)
- Room14 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 10:00 am - 03:00 pm: 1301 Christian-Muslim Relations in Ethiopia (06 papers; 3h)
- 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm: 0812 General Panel "Studies in Cushitic and Omotic Languages" (02 papers; 1h)
- Room16 [Agriculture Hall]
- 10:00 am - 06:30 pm: 1203 Film Panel: Ethiopian Studies Through Image, Sound and Beyond: Perspectives from Ethnographic Films (6h)
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
- Common Events
- 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm: Booklaunches and Exhibition Openings [IPHC Halls]
- Lunch and Tea Breaks
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Tea Break
- 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm: Lunch
- 04:45 pm - 05:15 pm: Tea Break
- Panels
- Room01 [IPHC Ground floor]
- 09:00 am - 07:15 pm: 0102 Practices of Archaeological Researches and Conservation of Archaeological Sites in Ethiopia (13 papers; 6.5h)
- Room02 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:00 pm: 0211 Traditional Building Technology and Comparison with Abroad (05 papers; 2.5h)
- 03:15 pm - 06:15 pm: 0214 Challenges of Modern Architecture and Urban Planning in Ethiopia (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room03 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:45 pm: 0303 Development and Labour in the Horn of Africa: Outlining the Contours of a Key Relationship (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room04 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:45 pm: 0305 Lands of the Future. Time for Innovation. Can Ethiopia Still Set a Global Example for Equitable Development? (continued) (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room05 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:15 pm: 0510 The Medieval Ethiopian Dynamics (12th-17th c): State, People, Space and Knowledge in Movement (11 papers; 5.5h)
- Room06 [IPHC Hall 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:45 pm: 0507 New Evidence on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room07 [IPHC Hall 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 05:45 pm: 0518 Ethiopia and the Ancient World: Reception and Transformation of Geographical Knowledge (10 papers; 5h)
- Room08 [IPHC Hall 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 03:45 pm: 0607 Landscape Change and Land Use Change (07 papers; 3.5h)
- 03:45 pm - 05:45 pm: 0807 Applied Linguistics, Orthography and Language Reform (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room09 [IPHC Hall 4th floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:00 pm: 0703 Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia. The Interplay of International, National and Customary Law (continued) (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room10 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:15 pm: 0704 Local Government in Ethiopia: Democratic, Developmental & Accommodative of Regional Minorities? (11 papers; 5.5h)
- Room11 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:45 pm: 0808 General Panel "Geez Literature" (12 papers; 6h)
- Room12 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am: 0904 The (re-)making of the state internally and internationally after 1991 (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 11:30 am - 04:15 pm: 0903 New Media in Modern Ethiopia - Developmental Challenges (04 papers; 2h)
- 05:15 pm - 06:45 pm: 0902 USA and Africa: From Berlin to San Francisco and After (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room13 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:30 pm: 1201 Archives and Collections for/in Ethiopian Studies (06 papers; 3h)
- Room14 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:15 pm: 1202 Changing Intersections of Environmental Shocks and Local Institutions in Ethiopia: Debates and Case Studies (08 papers; 4h)
- Room15 [IPHC Lab 4th floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:15 pm: 1304 Revisiting Islam in Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Its Heritage, History and Culture (08 papers; 4h)
- Room16 [Agriculture Hall]
- 09:00 am - 06:45 pm: 1203 Film Panel: Ethiopian Studies Through Image, Sound and Beyond: Perspectives from Ethnographic Films (continued) (6h)
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
- Lunch and Tea Breaks
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Tea Break
- 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm: Lunch
- 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm: Tea Break
- Panels
- Room01 [IPHC Ground floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:30 pm: 0202 Ethiopian Christian Art: Defining Styles, Defying Definitions (06 papers; 3h)
- 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm: 0203 Ethiopia's ecclesiastical painting traditions: influences, development, technology, and conservation (07 papers; 3.5h)
- Room03 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:30 pm: 0301 Ch’at in Ethiopia (14 papers; 7h)
- Room04 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:30 pm: 0516 Modern Ethiopia from Adwa to the Derg (06 papers; 3h)
- 02:00 pm - 05:30 pm: 0505 Ethnic Identities of Amhara Region (06 papers; 3h)
- Room05 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 05:00 pm: 0502 Borders and frontiers in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa after 1941 (11 papers; 5.5h)
- Room06 [IPHC Hall 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 03:30 pm: 0602 Developing Waters, Crafting the State, and Remaking Society in Ethiopia (09 papers; 4.5h)
- 03:30 pm - 06:30 pm: 0604 New Water-Energy Paradigms? Ethiopia’s Expanding Hydroelectric Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for Domestic and Regional Energy Futures (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room07 [IPHC Hall 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:00 pm: 0701 Historical Dimensions of Citizenship and Belonging in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room08 [IPHC Hall 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:00 pm: 0802 Linguistic Challenges and Change in Multilingual Ethiopia (13 papers; 6.5h)
- Room09 [IPHC Hall 4th floor]
- 09:00 am - 05:30 pm: 0805 Past, Present and Future of Editing Ethiopian Texts: Regional and Global Perspectives (12 papers; 6h)
- Room10 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 02:30 pm: 1204 Global Schooling and Local Learning in Ethiopia (07 papers; 3.5h)
- 02:30 pm - 05:30 pm: 0105 Current practices and discussions on heritage in Ethiopia (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room11 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 03:30 pm: 1101 Gendering Reproduction and Fertility Control in Ethiopia (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room12 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 07:00 pm: 1207 Health, Religion, Inequalities and Development. (15 papers; 7.5h)
- Room13 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:30 pm: 1215 Sociopolitical Systems beyond the State in the Past and Present (06 papers; 3h)
- 02:00 pm - 06:30 pm: 1205 Globalisation and Rural Ethiopia (08 papers; 4h)
- Room14 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:00 pm: 1212 Tourism Development (10 papers; 5h)
- 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm: 1214 Anthropological Studies on Songs, Music and Poetry (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room15 [IPHC Lab 4th floor]
- 09:00 am - 11:30 am: 1102 “Justice from Below” Panel 2: Gendered Approaches of Social Justice in Ethiopia: Women, Redistribution and Recognition (04 papers; 2h)
- Room16 [Agriculture Hall]
- 09:00 am - 07:00 pm: 0206 Museums and Development in Ethiopia (15 papers; 7.5h)
Thursday, 4 October 2018
- Common Events
- 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm: Keynote Speech by Prof. Günther SCHLEE
- 02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Memorial Forum
- Lunch and Tea Breaks
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Tea Break
- 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm: Lunch
- 04:45 pm - 05:15 pm: Tea Break
- Panels
- Room01 [IPHC Ground floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:15 pm: 0103 Studying Aksumite Ceramics to Reconstruct Social and Trade Intra-Interconnections (07 papers; 3.5h)
- 04:15 pm - 06:15 pm: 0104 Foreign Projects Meet the Ethiopian Universities. Several Cases of Studies in Ethnology, Ethnography, Linguistics, Archaeology, and Experimental Researches. (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room02 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:30 pm: 0204 Ethnomusicology Studies in Ethiopia (06 papers; 3h)
- Room03 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am: 0210 The New Rock-Hewn Churches of Ethiopia: Continuity or Revival? (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: 0212 Transnational Entanglements of Cultural Festivals in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 03:45 pm - 06:45 pm: 0201 Contemporary Ethiopian Art Scene: Drawing Heritages from the Past, and (Being Engaged in) New Aspects in Art (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room04 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 04:45 pm: 0304 Enabling Infrastructures, Redefining Territories: Ethiopia’s Regions Beyond Rural or Urban Bias (08 papers; 4h)
- Room05 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:00 pm: 0403 Modern Education in Ethiopia: Challenges for Teachers and Learners (05 papers; 2.5h)
- 03:45 pm - 06:45 pm: 0404 Managing Universities and Quality of Higher Education (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room06 [IPHC Hall 1st floor]
- 09:00 am - 11:30 am: 0511 Trade, Routes and Travel: Ethiopia in the Pre-Modern World (04 papers; 2h)
- 11:30 am - 06:15 pm: 0503 Entangled Histories and Traditions: Ethiopia and the World (06 papers; 3h)
- 06:15 pm - 06:45 pm: 0519 Entangled Histories and Traditions: Ethiopia and the World - Ethiopian Imaginations Outside Ethiopia (01 papers; 0.5h)
- Room07 [IPHC Hall 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 12:00 pm: 0515 The Italian Occupation of Ethiopia: Recent Studies (05 papers; 2.5h)
- 12:00 pm - 06:45 pm: 0609 Ecological Systems and Population (06 papers; 3h)
- Room08 [IPHC Hall 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 07:15 pm: 0801 Automatic Text Processing and Digital Humanities for Ethiopian Language and Culture (12 papers; 6h)
- Room09 [IPHC Hall 4th floor]
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am: 0809 Sociolinguistic and Dialect Studies on Tigrinya (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 11:00 am - 04:15 pm: 0810 General Panel "Linguistic Studies on Amharic" (04 papers; 2h)
- 04:15 pm - 06:45 pm: 0811 General Panel "Philological Studies on Modern Ethiopian Texts" (04 papers; 2h)
- Room11 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:00 am - 05:45 pm: 1002 Trends and Dynamics of International Migration in Ethiopia (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room13 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 06:15 pm: 1205 Globalisation and Rural Ethiopia (continued) (10 papers; 5h)
- Room14 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am: 1303 Monasticism in the Horn of Africa? Comparative Considerations Beyond the Christian Tradition (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 11:00 am - 07:15 pm: 1302 Ethiopian Christianity: Global Interconnections and Local Identities - From Late Antiquity to Early Modern Times (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room16 [Agriculture Hall]
- 09:00 am - 06:45 pm: 1211 The Abbay (Nile) Quest in the Ethiopian Popular Imagination and Belief System (11 papers; 5.5h)
Friday, 5 October 2018
- Common Events
- 09:00 am - 09:30 am: Keynote Speech by Dr. Ronny MEYER
- 05:45 pm - 06:15 pm: Business Meeting
- 06:15 pm - 06:30 pm: Closing Ceremony
- Lunch and Tea Breaks
- 10:45 am - 11:15 am: Tea Break
- 12:15 pm - 01:45 pm: Lunch
- 03:45 pm - 04:15 pm: Tea Break
- Panels
- Room01 [IPHC Ground floor]
- 09:45 am - 03:15 pm: 0213 “Art History, Church Architecture, Liturgical Development and Historical Issues in Tigray”: Inter-Disciplinary Researches (07 papers; 3.5h)
- Room02 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:45 am - 11:45 am: 1103 Gender Relations in Agriculture (03 papers; 1.5h)
- 11:45 am - 05:45 pm: 0308 Rural Development: Recent Research on the Socioeconomic Situation of Farmers (08 papers; 4h)
- Room03 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:45 am - 02:45 pm: 0501 A View from Afar (06 papers; 3h)
- 02:45 pm - 05:15 pm: 0504 Ethiopian Vis-a-vis Oromo and Islamicate Studies: Change Trajectories (04 papers; 2h)
- Room04 [IPHC Class 1st floor]
- 09:45 am - 02:15 pm: 0509 Polish Ethiopian Studies in a Global Context (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room05 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:45 am - 02:15 pm: 0605 Climate and Its Impact on Livelihood (05 papers; 2.5h)
- Room06 [IPHC Hall 1st floor]
- 09:45 am - 03:45 pm: 0608 Water Resources, Irrigation and Rainfall (08 papers; 4h)
- Room07 [IPHC Hall 2nd floor]
- 09:45 am - 03:15 pm: 0705 The Political Economy of Ethnicity and Cultural Identities in Northeastern Ethiopia (07 papers; 3.5h)
- 03:15 pm - 05:15 pm: 0706 Studies on Legal History of Modern Ethiopia (03 papers; 1.5h)
- Room08 [IPHC Hall 3rd floor]
- 09:45 am - 03:45 pm: 0804 Quantification and Numeration of Objects in Space in Ethiopian Languages. (08 papers; 4h)
- Room09 [IPHC Hall 4th floor]
- 09:45 am - 04:45 pm: 0806 Historical and Comparative Linguistics (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room11 [IPHC Class 2nd floor]
- 09:45 am - 03:45 pm: 1002 Trends and Dynamics of International Migration in Ethiopia (continued) (08 papers; 4h)
- Room13 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:45 am - 04:45 pm: 1206 Guardians of Productive Landscapes: Farmers and Farming in Ethiopia (09 papers; 4.5h)
- Room14 [IPHC Class 3rd floor]
- 09:45 am - 05:15 pm: 1305 Ethiopian Christianity: Global Interconnections and Local Identities - 19th–21st Centuries (10 papers; 5h)
- Room16 [Agriculture Hall]
- 09:45 am - 04:45 pm: 1211 The Abbay (Nile) Quest in the Ethiopian Popular Imagination and Belief System (continued) (09 papers; 4.5h)