BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to investigate the history of Ethiopia in and of itself, and its complex relationship to the histories of the African continent, the wider African diaspora, and the world at large. Saturday, October 17 Introductory Remarks Hoor Al Qasimi, President, Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute Salah M. Hassan - Director, The Africa Institute, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Elizabeth W. Giorgis – Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Dagmawi Woubshet - Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA Surafel Wondimu Abebe - Assistant Professor at the Centre for African Studies and Researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Session 1 Exceptionalism and Historiography of Ethiopia Moderator & Discussant Tibebe Eshete - Pocock Family Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The College of Wooster, Ohio, USA Keynote 1 Ethiopia: Symbol of Black Dignity and Independence Bahru Zewde - Emeritus Professor of History, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Sunday, October 18 Session 2 Ethiopia and the Black Diasporic Imagination | Learn More Moderator & Discussant Salah M. Hassan - Director, The Africa Institute, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Session 3 Tumultuous Times: Ethiopia Revolution and Derg Years | Learn More Moderator & Discussant Shimelis Bonsa Gulema - Associate Professor of Modern African History and Politics, SUNY Stony Brook University, New York, USA Monday, October 19 Film Screening + Talk: Spacial and Other Memories: Meskel Square’s Contribution Square Stories Trilogy | Learn More 2010 | 75 mins Ye Wonz Maibel – Deluge 1997 | 61 mins Directed by Salem MekuriaSalem Mekuria – Filmmaker and Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA Dagmawi Woubshet - Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA Film Screening + Talk: The Modern Archive Twilight Revelations: The Life and Times of Emperor Haile Selassie | Learn More Directed by Yemane Demissie 2009 | 58 minsYemane Demissie - Professor, New York University, USA Takele Merid - Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Elizabeth W. Giorgis - Professor of Theory and Criticism, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Wednesday, October 21 Session 4 Artist Focus: A Dialogue with Julie Mehretu Moderator & Discussant Salah M. Hassan - Director, The Africa Institute, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Session 5 The State of Visual Art in Ethiopia: A Roundtable Moderator & Discussant Salah M. Hassan - Director, The Africa Institute, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Saturday, October 24 Session 6 Writing Ethiopia: Identity and the Literary Imagination Moderator & Discussant Elizabeth W. Giorgis – Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Session 7 Modernity and Memory: Ethiopia’s Histories Moderator & Discussant Surafel Wondimu Abebe - Assistant Professor at the Centre for African Studies and Researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Sunday, October 25 Session 8 Diasporic Ethiopia: Migration and Exile Moderator & Discussant Dagmawi Woubshet¬ - Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA Keynote 2 Beyond Exceptionalism: Ethiopia in the History of International Law Adom Getachew - Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, USA LOCATION: DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201025 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR