Half-day workshop organized in partnership between : Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSor : EHESS, CNRS) ; Programme ANR-DFG ETHIOMAP (EHESS, CFEE, Erfurt Universität) ; Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF : CNRS, IRD, Université Paris 1, EPHE, EHESS) ; Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes (UMIFRE CNRS, MAEDI)

On : Tuesday 5 avril 2016, 14:00 to 19:00
At : EHESS, 190-198 avenue de France, salle Vernant (8e étage)

PROGRAM

– 14:00 Eloi Ficquet (EHESS, CéSor / programme Ethiomap ANR-DFG)
“The published and unpublished works of Antoine et Arnauld d’Abbadie. State of recent and current research.”

– 14:30 Shiferaw Bekele (Addis Ababa University) :
“Ethiopian oral history as collected by Arnauld d’Abbadie.”

– 15:00 Eloi Ficquet (EHESS, CéSor / Ethiomap ANR-DFG ) :
“An overview of the notes and records of Arnauld d’Abbadie on North-Ethiopian customary law.”

– 15:30 Mohammed Hassen Ali (Georgia State University, Atlanta; Oromo Studies Association) :
“The importance of Antoine d’Abbadie’s records on the Oromo: Yearning for further research.”

– 16:00 Antonella Brita (Hamburg University) and Eloi Ficquet (EHESS) :
“Editing Antoine d’Abbadie’s field notes on the Oromo.”

– 16:30 coffee break

– 17:00 Anaïs Wion (CNRS, IMAF) :
“The Ethiopian manuscripts collection of Antoine d’Abbadie: Collective aspects of the project and its structural effects on Ethiopian studies.”

– 17:30 Eloi Ficquet (EHESS, CéSor / Ethiomap ANR-DFG ) :
“Two neglected sources on Ethiopian historical geography: the ‘Géodésie’ and the ‘Geography’ of Antoine d’Abbadie.”

– 18:00 Fesseha Berhe (Mekele University, EHESS / Ethiomap ANR-DFG) :
“Understanding the history of Tigray through the eyes and hears of the d’Abbadie brothers.”

– 18:30 Conclusions