Dear readers, June and July, at the CFEE, were marked by scientific events, institutional meetings and new collaborations. Highlights included the CFEE’s visit to the CECOE election observation centre, the return of around forty...
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...
Dear readers, The months of April and May were once again rich in scientific activities, collective work and new collaborations at the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies and within its wider network. Over the...
Human-Environment Interaction through Archaeological Charcoal at Kumali Shelter, Southwest Ethiopia By Tefera Tarekegn Bayu, PhD student, Université Côte d’Azur, Affiliated with CEPAM Southwest Ethiopia is an important region for studying long-term human-environment interaction. It...
Announcement of the 2026 CFEE Fieldwork Grant Recipients The French Center for Ethiopian Studies is pleased to announce the results of the 2026 CFEE Fieldwork Grants Call. Aimed at PhD candidates and MA students,...
The English edition of Nora, an Islamic Town in Medieval Ethiopia is now available at the CFEE Under the direction of François-Xavier Fauvelle and Romain Mensan Available in its printed format at the CFEE,...
CFEE Seminar – Human-Environment Interaction in Southwest Ethiopia’s Moist Afro-Montane Forest during the Mid-Late Holocene: Evidence from Anthracological Samples June 4th 2026, 2:00 p.m. (UTC+3), at the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa,...
CFEE Seminar – The Survival of Madbét System in Wolaita to 1937: Against the Established Historiography 15th of May 2026, 2:00pm (UTC+3), at the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa By Bisrat Lema...
CFEE Seminar – Between Lake and Land: New Paleoanthropological research in Fejej 7th of May 2026, 2:00pm (UTC+3), at the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa By Anna Echassoux – Director General, Institut...
State-Led Industrialization and the Social Costs of Development: Dispossession and Labor Experiences at Bole Lemi Industrial Park in Ethiopia By : Wubayehu Tolesa Musei, Haramaya University Despite decades of critical research on the...
Mission Abaya : paysage mégalithique en Éthiopie méridionale Par Vincent Ard (CNRS/TRACES), co-porteur de la mission Abaya. Le mégalithisme de la Corne de l’Afrique est l’un des plus riches et exceptionnels du continent...
The CFEE is pleased to announce its 2026 Doctoral Workshop, which will take place on 14th and 15th of April 2026 at the CFEE in Addis Ababa, from 9:00 am to 5:15 pm (Addis...
On 26 March 2026, the AFROBEE project will officially be launched during its kick-off meeting, which will take place at the Centre français des études éthiopiennes (CFEE), Addis Ababa, from 08.30 am to 17.30...
APPEL À CANDIDATURES / CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fieldwork grants in 2026 for PhD candidates & MA students Application Deadline: April 3, 2026 Bourses de terrain pour doctorants et étudiants de master en 2026 Candidature...
The Fano Insurgency: Ethiopia’s Cycle of ‘Unfinished Wars’ YARED DEBEBE, PhD, University of Gondar Introduction This research on the “political sociology of the Fano insurgency” aimed to document and analysis the on-going Ethiopia’s...
