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:

NEW PUBLICATIONS for NEW SERIES Creation of Ad'É Books Series Publishing of two new titles Information on our blog: And open access on CFEE OpenEdition:

Welcoming of the 1st ERC Summer School Programme "Women at Work" PhD students from Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa receive intensive training from a pool of international teachers #SocialHistory, #OralHistory, #Gender, #LabourHistory

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION 10th to 30th JULY, at National Museum of Ethiopia MISSION DAKAR-DJIBOUTI, 1932 Gondar and Addis Ababa in the camera lens of the French scholars

CFEE SEMINAR Political Sciences & International Relations Friday 24th May, 2PM @ CFEE, Jan Meda Anxious Ethiopia: state identity and foreign policy during EPRDF rule By Katharina Newbery (IPSS, AAU) More details:

BOOK LAUNCH Friday 19th April, at 2PM, #CFEE #politics #Horn Dr Aleksi Ylönen (Iscte, Lisbonne Univ) will present: The Horn engaging the Gulf. Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations (2024) For more information:

ETHIOPIE MEDIEVALE, AU CARREFOUR DES CROYANCES

Présentation du livre "Djibouti au XXIème siècle. Enjeux politiques et économiques contemporains dans un environnement troublé", Aden Omar Abdillahi et Jean-Nicolas Bach (dir.) Agence Djiboutienne d'Information

Great African Rift Interdisciplinary 3rd Symposium Maasai Mara University, Narok (Kenya), from May 13 to 17, 2024 Deadline to submission is extended to January 19th.

SAVE THE DATE !! #Medieval #Research #Ethiopia @FfMSEH Monday 27th November - 1.30pm EAT Hybrid event: venue at the @CFEE or online zoom 1st YEAR ANNIVERSARY SEMINAR !!

SEMINAR @CFEE, Friday 24th November, 2.30pm Islamic funerary landscapes of Medieval Ethiopia: new insights from Tigray and Somali Region and questions of archaeological method. By Simon Dorso @EHorneast #Ethiopia #Archaeology #medieval More info:

Documentary screening “Ethiopia, the mystery of the phallic stone” Friday 17th November, 4:30PM @ Alliance Ethio-french (Piazza) / English version (52 min) @aefaddis Followed by discussion in presence of the whole Abaya archaeological team

SEMINAR #CFEE/#AAU // Megalithic Landscape New investigations methods and conservation issues, from Southern France to Southern Ethiopia Tuesday 31st October, 3.30PM @AddisAbabaUnive // Archaeology Dpt By V. Ard (TRACES) & A. Pierre (Fenaille Museum)

EMPLOYMENT / DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION 13th OCTOBER 2023 CHAIR OF JUNIOR PROFESSOR The urban outside metropolitan centres #ENTPE, Lyon Saint-Etienne university, UMR EVS, Urban Planning, #Cities and #Territories More info:

NEW PUBLICATION Ethiopian Islam. Connected studies of Medieval Horn of Africa, Amélie Chekroun (dir), PUP, 2023. Online: Thank you 👏