Chair:
Sandra Greene, Professor, Department of History, Cornell University

William R. Scott,  Professor,  History, and Director, Africana Studies Program, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
“A Chronicle of American Ethiopianism 1700-1945.”

Fikru Gebrekidan,  Assistant Professor, History Department, St. Thomas University, Canada
“From Periphery to Center: Ethiopia and the Politics of Pan-Africanism, 1896-1974.”

Petrine Archer-Straw, Visiting Associate Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center and Department of History of Art, Cornell University
“Bearing Gifts: Representations of Ethiopia in the European Racial Imaginary.”

Horace Campbell,  Professor, African and African American Studies and Political Science, Syracuse University, New York
“Rastafari and Ethiopian Traditions.”

Discussant:
Robert L. Harris, Jr., Vice Provost and Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

12:15 – 1:45 PM • LUNCHEON  KEYNOTE ADDRESS 

Guest Speaker:
Martin Bernal, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government , Cornell University
“The Impact of Ethiopian Blackness on the Formation of Classics.”

2:00 – 4:00 PM           
SESSION III:  MONARCHY: DISCOURSES OF POWER,
PROTOCOL & PROTEST

Chair:
Abdul Nanji, Senior Lecturer, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Tekalign Wolde-Mariam,  Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center,
Cornell University, and Professor, Department of History, Addis Ababa University
“The Politics of Talking Modern in Post-liberation Ethiopia: The Italo-Ethiopian War and the Emergence of a New Discourse on Modernity (1941-1974).”

Fouad Makki,  Assistant Professor, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
“Ethiopia: Empire and Modernity.”

Berit Sahlstrom, Art Historian, Artist and Critic, Uppsala University, Sweden
“Photographic images in Ethiopian political posters during the Dergue.”

Julia Kim Werts,  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Cornell University
“Fashioning Modernity: Dressing the Body in Ethiopian Portraiture.”

Discussant:
Tekeste Negash, Associate Professor, Uppsala University and Dalarna University, Sweden

4:00 – 4:15 PM • REFRESHMENT BREAK

4:15– 6:15 PM    
SESSION IV: MODERNITY: A VIEW FROM THE CENTER

Chair:     
Salah M. Hassan, Professor and Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Elizabeth Giorgis, Director, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art, Cornell University
“Modernity, Pedagogy and Art Education: The History of the School of Fine Arts in Ethiopia.”

Mbye Cham, Professor and Director, African Studies Department, Howard University, Washington, DC
“Lieux de Memoires and Ethiopian Cinema."

Dagmawi Woubshet, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University
“Seeking the Lyricism of Cultural Difference: Ethiopian Poesis and Diasporic Interpretations.”

Discussant:
Salem Mekuria, Independent Film Maker and Associate Professor, Art Department, Wellesley College, Massachusetts

6:15 – 6:30 PM • CLOSING REMARKS:

Salah M. Hassan, Professor and Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

6:30 - 7:30 PM • RECEPTION  

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