Only a few days left to apply for the CFEE Fieldwork Grants for PhD candidates and MA students in the Horn of Africa. 🗓 Deadline: 3 April 2026 🌍 No nationality restriction 📝 Applications in French or English 📎https://cfee.hypotheses.org/14445

‪CFEE Fieldwork Grant 2025 — Meet our grantee : Alp Cibikli. 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open And if it were you this year ? 🔗 cfee.hypotheses.org/14445 #CFEE #FieldworkGrant #Ethiopia

Meet our grantee: Selena Gabresi Her research explores Cuban–Ethiopian educational cooperation (1978–1991). 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are open 🔗 cfee.hypotheses.org/14445

CFEE Fieldwork Grant 2025 — Meet our grantee Rania Larifou studies Italian combatants’ experiences during the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia (1935–41), thanks to the CFEE Fieldwork Grant ! 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open 🔗 cfee.hypotheses.org/14445 #CFEE #FieldworkGrant #Ethiopia

✨ CFEE Fieldwork Grant 2025 — Meet our grantee Daniel Abeya studies medieval pottery from domestic contexts at Ertu, in East Shewa, and explores patterns of production and use in medieval Ethiopia. 📣CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open 🔗 cfee.hypotheses.org/14445 #CFEE #FieldworkGrant #Ethiopia

🍯 AFROBEE Project Kick-off – 26 March 2026 A new ANR-funded project exploring the language of beekeeping and honey hunting in Africa. Registration required — details on our blog : cfee.hypotheses.org/14484 #afrobee #ANR #linguistics #AfricanLanguages

✨ CFEE Fieldwork Grant 2025 — Meet our grantee Haregwin Hailu studies ecological change and feeding adaptations of large mammals in the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia). 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open 🔗 cfee.hypotheses.org/14445 #CFEE #FieldworkGrant #Ethiopia

A glimpse into the CFEE archives. From field notebooks to mission reports, these documents preserve the traces of decades of research and scientific collaboration in Ethiopia. #ResearchArchives #AcademicResearch #Ethiopia #ScientificHeritage #CFEE

Meet our 2025 CFEE Fieldwork Grant recipients: Wubayehu Tolesa. Her PhD research explores the political economy of development projects in Ethiopia, focusing on socio-cultural relations, livelihoods, and property rights. 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open. Apply now

Meet our 2025 CFEE Fieldwork Grant recipients: Yosef Tefera. His work engages with Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic archaeology. 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open. Apply now.

Meet our 2025 CFEE Fieldwork Grant recipients: Demuma Amdisa. Her research explores women’s agency in pregnancy-related care in Ethiopia. 📣 CFEE Fieldwork Grants 2026 are now open. Apply now.

Comment les gestes circulent-ils entre générations et entre Nords et Suds ? Dans le cadre du projet européen PAGENS, associé au CFEE, une équipe internationale a mené une enquête exploratoire à Lomé sur la transmission des pratiques artistiques et artisanales. 📅 5 mars 2026 - 19h Entrée gratuite.

📢 The CFEE launches its 2026 Fieldwork Grants for MA students and PhD candidates working in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. 🗓 Deadline: April 3, 2026 Details & application form: cfee.hypotheses.org/14445

🎉Check out our new blog post by Yared Debebe, CFEE grant recipient in 2024! The Fano Insurgency: Ethiopia’s Cycle of “Unfinished Wars” More information in the comments! #CFEE #Grants #Ethiopia #HornOfAfrica

📢 GDR/RT Rift 6th Call for Student Mobility (2026 Edition) – Now Open! ✔️ Are you a master’s or PhD student, or a post-doctoral researcher working on topics related to the East African Rift? Apply here: forms.gle/Fobjvg3ULsUo...

Check out our new blog post by Osman Alp Cibikli, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/14255

📣 CFEE Seminar: Workshop Islam in Enderta 🎙️ 20th of February 2026 / 2 PM French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa #CFEE #Ethiopia #Aef #HornOfAfrica

Check out our new blog post by Yosef Tefera, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/14255

📣 After the Hijrat al-Habasha. What archaeology says about the ancient presence of Islam in Ethiopia 🗓️ Thursday, February 19 | 2PM – 4PM 📍 Bilal Building Auditorium, in front of Vatican Embassy, Addis Ababa #Ethiopia #Islam #HornOfAfrica

🚀 Official launch of #PAGENS in Lomé After three years of preparation, the Pathways, Ages, Generations in the Global North and South project is now underway! 🌍 20 partners · 10 countries 🤝 Africa–Europe–Americas Cooperation 📚 Exchanges & training in qualitative, quantitative and visual methods

📣 CFEE Seminar: Abyssinia 1909 – Un projet Arts & Sciences Aef – CFEE présenté par Hugues Fontaine 🎙️ 19th of February 2026 / 2:30 pm French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa

Check out the new French version of the Guide to the Historical Archaeology Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethiopia, by publisher Éditions Soleb. More information at the following link: cfee.hypotheses.org/14082

Check out our new blog post by Maxine Huguet, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/14061

Check out our new blog post on the AcheuleanRoots! Link to the blog post: cfee.hypotheses.org/14022

Check out our new blog post by Daniel Abeya, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/13989

Check out our new blog post by Mussie Hayelom, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/13962

Check out our new blog post by Rania Larifou, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/13917

Check out our new blog post by Demuma Amdisa Jegola, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/13897

Check out our new blog post by Addise Baba, CFEE grant recipient in 2025! cfee.hypotheses.org/13853

📣 CFEE Seminar: Becoming mature : the intersection of age and gender in a pastoral society (Mursi, Ethiopia) 🎙️ 5th of February 2026 / 2pm-4pm, French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa by Dr Jean-Baptiste Eczet, Associate professor, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)

📣 CFEE's latest YouTube video is out! Our interview with Caterina Scalvedi can be found on our channel. More information in the comments! #YouTube #CFEE #Colonialism

📣 Seminar "Ethnography in Motion: Audiovisual Encounters Across Film, Installation, and Performance" 🎙️ 23rd of January 2026- 2 pm to 5 pm, Addis Ababa (EAT), French Center for Ethiopian Studies by Dr. Itsushi Kawase (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)

📣 CFEE and FMSEH Round Table “Megalithic monuments in the Horn of Africa” 🎙️ 22nd January 2026 – 11.30 am to 7 pm, Addis Abeba (EAT) ONLINE ROUND TABLE: Zoom Link: lnkd.in/dSaUbzCn

L'IFAS-Recherche recrute sa ou son volontaire international·e pour un an (renouvelable un an), à compter du 1er juillet 2026 (où aussi proche que possible de cette date). La fiche de poste est disponible à cette adresse : www.ifas.org.za/research/wp-...

📣CONSTELLATIONS - KEWAKIBT - CFEE BOOK LAUNCH: Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Sherif Harar municipal museum January 6th 2026 - 4:30 PM. Rimbaud House, Harar-Jugol 🎙️With Anne Regourd and 'Abdullahi 'Ali Sherif

📣 SOFIES Lecture Series 2026 Thursday 8 January, 3 PM, Ras Makonnen Hall, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University 🎙️ Presentation of Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. #CFEE #Ethiopia #SOFIES

Dear colleagues, The CFEE is getting a makeover! Please note that the centre and its library will be unable to be accessed from 22nd December 2025 to 5th January 2026 due to renovation work. Thank you for your understanding. The CFEE team.

📣PhD DEFENSE 🎙️ Fesseha Berhe Gebregergis “The Dobǝᶜa of Northeastern Ethiopia. Palimpsest Persistence of a Frontier Muslim Society and Polity between Christian, Islamic, and Oromo Worlds (12th–19th Centuries)” 📍 Thursday, December 18th 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m CET cfee.hypotheses.org/13469

📣 CFEE and FMSEH Seminar – December 19th, 2025, 11 AM EAT 📍 Online 3rd Anniversary of the Forum for Medieval Studies in the Horn of Africa (FMSEH), Special Webinar "Stelae and stone monuments from Western Africa" More information about the event: cfee.hypotheses.org/13399

Deux nouvelles étapes pour Mekelle Stories au #Royaume-Uni. #Oxford – une présentation à la Maison Française d’Oxford, avec Catherine Dom. #Bath – un moment très fort à Fairfield House, lieu emblématique de l’exil de Haile Selassie, avec la superbe contribution de Chessie Baldwin.

SEMINAR CFEE and FMSEH - Monday 21st November, 3 PM "Biological and funerary perspectives on the emergence of food-producing societies in the Horn of Africa" Presented by: By Laura Maréchal (PhD), biological anthropologist at the University of Geneva 🔗 More information: cfee.hypotheses.org/13172

📢 Débats d’Idées: Colloque International APaSuN – Masculin/féminin: crises, représentations, circulations – Monday, 24th November, 2:30 PM 📍 Institut Français de Djibouti 🔗 More informations : fbio.hypotheses.org/596

📢 CFEE Seminar – Thursday 13th March, 4 PM 📍 French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa "Visual Memories of the Italian Presence in Ethiopia" 🎙 Gioia Toscani De Col (PhD Candidate, University of Padua) 🔗 More informations :

📢 Call for Applications – CFEE Field Grants 2025 📢 The French Center for Ethiopian Studies is offering field research grants for PhD candidates and Master’s students wishing to conduct fieldwork in #Ethiopia and the #HornOfAfrica 🔗 More info:

📢 CFEE & FMSEH Seminar – Friday 28th February, 3 PM 📍 CFEE Library, Berhanu Abebe « The Megalithic Landscape in the Gurage Zone of Central Ethiopia » 🎙 Worku Derara 🔗 More information :

📢 CFEE Seminar – Friday 21th February, 5:30 PM (East Africa Time) 📍 CFEE Library, Berhanu Abebe “The Lost Wax, Light up Lalibela’s Churches” Documentary Screening and Discussion 🎙 Mitiku Gabrehiwot Tesfaye 🔗 More information :

📢 #CFEE Seminar – Tuesday 18th February, 4 PM 📍 CFEE Library (50m from Jan Meda entrance) “From Jerusalem to Tigray’s Path: A Journey of Timeless Tradition” By Brother Abiel, PhD student & member of Monastère de Bethléem. 🔗 More information :

1st FMSEH Webinar / CFEE seminar of 2025 Series A century of Megalithic Research in the Horn On Friday 31st January. 3PM. CFEE Library By Dr. Ayele Tarekegn (Addis Ababa University) The Stelae Culture Complex of the Horn of Africa More information:

RENCONTRE LITTÉRAIRE AVEC MAYLIS DE KERANGAL LUNDI 3 FÉVRIER, à l'Alliance éthio-française, 18h. More information:

CELEBRATING LUCY - DOCU, CONF, CONCERT ! TOMORROW - On Saturday 25th January @ AEF Piasa, 5pm More information: