CFEE Seminar – The OGRE Project: Objectives, Collaboration and Recent Advances

CFEE Seminar – The OGRE Project: Objectives, Collaboration and Recent Advances

July 6th 2026, 2:00 p.m. (UTC+3), at the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, and online

By the OGRE Team – Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Tomas Getachew Bedane, Blade Engda Redae, Axelle Gardin, Haregwin Hailu and Margot Louail

The CFEE is pleased to host a seminar by the OGRE team on “The OGRE Project: Objectives, Collaboration and Recent Advances”, on July 6, 2026, at 2:00 pm (UTC+3). The seminar will take place at the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, and will also be accessible online. It is open to all.

The Omo Group Research Expedition investigates the dynamics of human and non-human populations in the lower Omo Valley by studying the adjacent Shungura Formation (approx. 3.75 Ma–1.09 Ma) and Usno Formation (approx. 4.2 Ma–approx. 3.2 Ma). The aim is to describe the evolution of biodiversity, ecology of species and behaviours within a broad range of biotic interactions and in response to environmental changes at local and, possibly, global scales. The OGRE team will illustrate various aspects of this work through a series of short talks.

The seminar will include the following presentations:

Jean-Renaud Boisserie (CNRS, CFEE & PALEVOPRIM), Blade Engda Redae (Arizona State University & CFEE) and Tomas Getachew Bedane (Ethiopian Heritage Authority & CFEE & PALEVOPRIM) “Interdisciplinary research on  ~3-million-years history of a Rift ecosystem: the Usno and Shungura sediments from the Lower Omo Valley”
Axelle Gardin (Université de Montpellier, ISEM) “Towards a fine-scale reconstruction of freshwater ecosystems in African human evolution contexts”
Tomas Getachew Bedane (Ethiopian Heritage Authority & CFEE & PALEVOPRIM) “Stable isotope evidence for elephantid paleoecology in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia”
Margot Louail (Harvard University) “Ecological niche variations of papionins and hominins from the Shungura Formation: insights from stable isotopes and dental microwear”
Haregwin Hailu (CNRS, PALEVOPRIM) “From fossils to Ecosystem: Reconstructing Environmental Change in the Turkana Depression”
Blade Engda Redae (Arizona State University & CFEE) “Taphonomic observations of faunal remains from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia)”

The seminar is open to all and will also be accessible online.

To receive the connection link, please send an email to: secretariat@cfee.cnrs.fr

Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa / Online

We look forward to welcoming many of you at the CFEE and online.

French Center for Ethiopian Studies’ location:
The French Center for Ethiopian Studies is located in the Jan Meda neighborhood (Arada sub city, Kebele 11/12, house no. 1907), between Menelik Hospital and Sidist Kilo (50m before the entrance of Jan Meda)

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