The audience at the CFEE, Addis Ababa.

📢Call for Papers: #SAfA2025 #Africa #Paleometallurgy V. Serneels Uni Fribourg and S. Birba N. Zongo Univ. and me are organizing a session titled “African metallurgy : Techniques and Societies” for the next Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) conference CNRS Occitanie Ouest UT Jean Jaurès TRACES labo d'archéo SUSPENDU🦋

1st paper of the historical archaeology panel. Three more papers to go, join us anytime during the talks. A shot from the present talk.

@ the CFEE this afternoon.

The last talk by Prof. Samantha Kelly of this incredible FMSEH Annual Conference!

Some interesting finds 👇👇 Ancient Relic Discovered in Egri-Mekel shabait.com/2024/12/20/anc…

Conference CfP: "Visual Pasts, Material Presents, Archival Futures: Postcolonial Temporalities in the Making" Organised by SRU PhD candidates Clémentine Debrosse, Enzo Hml & Garance Nyssen! Deadline: 10 Jan 2025 Travel grants available!

Our latest study in Nature Communications reveals that #HomoErectus wasn't confined to comfy forests & grasslands. 🌳 These hominins were surprisingly adaptable, thriving even in harsh, hyperarid environments! 🏜️ #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Adaptation nature.com/articles/s4324…

Global commodities: cosmology and value tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 We are back with a new theme.

No problem if you missed last week's paper on Philo of Alexandria by Lea Niccolai (Cambridge). It is now up on our YouTube channel! youtube.com/watch?v=IUcHHj…

1st FMSEH Webinar / CFEE seminar of 2025 Series A century of Megalithic Research in the Horn On Friday 31st January. 3PM. CFEE Library By Dr. Ayele Tarekegn (Addis Ababa University) The Stelae Culture Complex of the Horn of Africa More information: cfee.hypotheses.org/10997

Tomorrow! If you want to attend online and are not yet on the mailing list, contact Andy Hilkens to receive the Zoom link!

On Thursday 27th February, we host Dr Jonathan Egid, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker Scholar, for the Centre for African Art & Archaeology, UEA talks! In- person/online: In-person venue: EFRY 01.02 (Elizabeth Fry (Bld:11)) Time: 5:00-6:30 pm GMT. Online link to register: tiny.cc/o079001 All welcome!

📣The 2nd talk on Megalithism in the Horn of Africa. We will share the Zoom link here Next Thursday.

📢 Call for Applications – CFEE Field Grants 2025 📢 The French Center for Ethiopian Studies is offering field research grants for PhD candidates and Master’s students wishing to conduct fieldwork in #Ethiopia and the #HornOfAfrica 🔗 More info: cfee.hypotheses.org/11584

Join our panel "Ethiopian Historiography: Evolution, Diversity, and Transformation" at ices22.hu.edu.et. Explore Ethiopia’s rich historical traditions from the 14th century to the modern period. Submit your abstract 250–300 words.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudie…

👇 Below is the link to join the seminar on Zoom tomorrow at 03:00 PM Addis Ababa. It's also possible to attend it in person at CFEE, Addis Ababa. univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/93863169829?… Meeting ID: 938 6316 9829 Passcode: 332399

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming e-seminar to be held on Friday, the 18th of July 2025, from 3 PM Addis Ababa time.