SLAFNET 2nd Workshop 2019

SLAFNET-Workshop & Public Lecture*
Slavery in Ethiopia: Historical Practices and its
Intergenerational Legacies

10:00-10:30: Introduction: The SLAFNET project and the research on Ethiopian slavery – Some preliminary reflections

Dr Giulia Bonacci (IRD), Dr Alexander Meckelburg (HLCES) & Prof. Dr Ahmed Hassen (IES, AAU)

10:30-11:00: Slavery and the slave trade in Shäwa and Gojjam: Practice, networks, memory

Genzeb Atalay (Debre Birhan University, IES)

11:00-11:30: The Kella system: Aspects of the slave trade in the Dawuro Kingdom, southern Ethiopia (ca. 17th century to 1942)

Admasu Abebe (AAU)

11:30-12:00: ‘Opening Old Wounds’: Remembering slave raiding and consequences for interethnic relations between Gumuz and Awi (1995−2019)

Dr Desalegn Amsalu (IES)

12:00-12:30: The dynamics of abolitionism: Integration and empowerment of ex-slaves in Tigray, Ethiopia

Fesseha Berhe (University of Mekelle & IES)

(14:00-16:00: internal project meeting: preparation of the proceedings of the summer school (April 2019) & publication of a project bibliography)

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Public Lecture
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopian History

Asien-Afrika Institut, 18:00-20:00, Room 122

Welcome (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi)

Introduction: Slave life along the long-distance trade routes in Ethiopia (ca. 19th – 20th cent.) (Prof. Dr Ahmed Hassen (IES))

Bela Shangul: A History (1898-1935) (Prof. Dr Abdussamad Ahmad (Addis Ababa University))

(Discussion and Moderation: Jun.- Prof. Dr Serena Tolino, Dr Giulia Bonacci & Dr Alexander Meckelburg)