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oct

2015

Addis Ababa

Call for papers - Africa

Making heritage in Ethiopia

Faire le patrimoine en Éthiopie

Annales d’Éthiopie, the academic journal of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa), launches a call for papers for its issue 31 (2016) about "Making heritage in Ethiopia".

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jan

2013

Addis Ababa

Scholarship, prize and job offer - Africa

Field work and writing of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies

The CFEE, research center (UMIFRE 23) of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) offers to researchers and students in the human and social sciences working on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa funding for field trips research or for the preparation of publications (writing scholarship) All applications must reach the CFEE by email (cfee@ethionet.et) before January 15, 2013. All applications will be examined and outcomes will be sent to the applicants by email before February 15, 2013. The applications can be written in French or English and it is advised to ask for an acknowledgment of receipt by email.

Addis Ababa

Conference, symposium - Religion

The Roles and Values of Menzuma : Islamic panegyrics in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

The songs of praise called menzuma, sung by a soloist accompanied by a choir and percussion are popular all over the Muslim areas of Ethiopia where the practice of Sufi Islam is still well rooted. The purposes of this workshop are many : to study Menzuma genre from different perspectives and in the different languages in which it is performed ; to study the role of Menzuma as a social performance in public or private spheres ; to understand the relations between the oral performance and the written text of Menzuma ; to explore the different levels of significance of Menzuma texts, i.e. Religious, moral, historical, artistic, etc. ; to observe the circulation, exchange and transformations of Menzuma among different societies of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

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