Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots conference, co-organized by Elizabeth W. Giorgis (PhD ‘10 History of Art) and ICM Director Salah M. Hassan, on behalf of The Africa Institute, was held October 17-25, 2020.
The conference invited a range of interdisciplinary scholars to consider issues of Ethiopian modernity within a national and international context. In many areas including, but not limited to, Ethiopia’s image as a sovereign black nation influenced and came to dominate debates on movements that ranged from Pan-Africanism to Afrocentrism in the twentieth century. The conference aimed to bring forth a transnational epistemological paradigm that can shed light on the current political, cultural and intellectual complexities of Africa’s oldest independent nation-state.
More information about the conference is available HERE
