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 👏

Sources. Materials &  Fieldwork in African Studies (6), Photos & Photographers Ed. C. Perrin-Joly & C. Josse-Durand 150 photo and 7 articles offer insights into the history and present of photography in Africa and its fruitful relation with social science

TODAY EVENT Professor Bahru Zewde’s autobiography ኅብር ሕይወቴ ፤ ግለ ታሪክ & recognition of his distinguished career and contributions @IES More than 300 people gathered in the Ras Makonnen Hall, thanks to The Society of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies #Ethiopia #History

Haïlé Sélassié (1892-1975), le dernier des rois d'Éthiopie via @franceculture

ONLINE Publication @CFEE_addis MOVEMENTS IN ETHIOPIA, ETHIOPIA IN MOVEMENT Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Éloi Ficquet, Ahmed Hassen Omer and Thomas Osmond (ed.) #Ethiopia #History #Anthropology #SocialSciences

NEW PUBLICATION @CFEE_addis Annales d’Éthiopie, vol. 34, 2022 Special Issue “New insights into the history of Harar” + Varia + Book reviews. #Ethiopia #History #Archaeology #Social Sciences #Publication For sale in hard copy at CFEE and online:

Thursday 29th June, 2PM, @CFEE_addis SEMINAR/SÉMINAIRE The role of the Maldives in the medieval world of the Indian Ocean: first archaeological data By Anne Haour #Ethiopia #Archaeology

Monday 26th June / SEMINAR / @EHA-@CFEE_addis 2PM, venue: EHA 3rd floor meeting hall #Prehistory: new insights from zooarchaeology and lithic technology studies By Blade Engda & Misganaw Gebremichael More details: #Ethiopia #Research #Paleontology

On going. Very interesting. Inter-UMIFRE meeting @CFEE @CRFJerusalem, at Lalibela, 3rd to 7th June. Inauguration of the Lalibela exhibition. Visit. Conference days: Archaeology, History, Contemporary World, UMIFRE Challenges... @INSHS_CNRS @CNRS @francediplo_EN

TODAY 1st June SEMINAR, 2PM, in CFEE ART HISTORY Two artists painters of the 20th century: Agegnehu Engeda & Emaelaf Heruy By Lola Mirti

Next #CFEE seminar / #Ethiopia #Music Friday 19th May - 3PM "Song and the rhetoric of conflict in Amhara region: an ethnomusicologist’s enquiry" By Katell Morand (Paris Nanterre University/CREM-LESC) More details:

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING Friday 28th April, 2 PM @CFEE_addis Bitchabé, the village of the blacksmiths By @RobionBrunner @umr5608_traces , Marie-Pierre Coustures, Zouhair Fartahi (2017) More details: #Togo #Ethnology

Wednesday 12th April, 3PM #CFEE #FEJEJ, AN EXCEPTIONAL PALEOANTHROPOLOGICAL REGION By Anna Echassoux (IPH, Paris) and the Team coming back from five weeks of field in #SouthOmo.

#CFEE SEMINAR Mon. 3rd March, 10 AM Large-scale housing programmes and its missing people By Raffael Beier (TU Dortmund University), Marie Bridonneau (Paris Nanterre University/CFEE), Seble Fekadu Deyaso (Ambo University) More details:

Wed. 8th Feb. 2PM #CFEE Launching of Hugues Fontaine's book: Menelik. An Abyssinia of photographers, an impressive compilation of 410 photographs, illustrations and maps that document Ethiopia under the reign of Menelik II through the eyes of explorers.

First archival holding in Ethiopian Environmental History #EWCA #CFEE #ANRPANSER Achieved project led by G. Blanc (historian) and K. Ayalew (heritage expert), implemented by L. Adane and K. Ayele. More details and catalogues:

International Workshop / 11-12 January 2023 Economic Histories in the Horn of Africa Conference Hall – Institute of Ethiopian Studies Addis Abeba University, Siddist Kilo Campus You can find the program on our blog:

SEMINAR @ CFEE Monday 19th December, 2 PM "Circulation of ancient beads: the fate of carnelian beads". by Dr Lucie Buffavand (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) More details:

France repatriates 740 artefacts it borrowed from Ethiopia in the 1960s @fanatelevision

Great Events yesterday at the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, at the Ethiopian Heritage Authority with the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the Embassy EHA @AmbafranceET 🧶 1/3

National Museum of Ethiopia, Temporary Exhibition 8th December Inauguration Paleoanthropological Research in Omo and Melka Kunture sites, Ethiopia Based upon the archives of J. Chavaillon whose 20 years work in Ethiopia is of primary importance to the research. #NME #ARCCH #CFEE

SEMINAR @ CFEE Thursday 24th November, 2 PM "Women and Gender in Ethiopia: state of research and possible future directions". by Dr Tirsit Sahledengil (IES, AAU) & Dr Pierre Guidi (CFEE, IRD) More details: