Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots conference, co-organized by Elizabeth Giorgis, PhD ‘10 and History of Art faculty Salah Hassan on behalf of The Africa Institute, was held October 17-25, 2020.
The conference invited a range of interdisciplinary scholars to consider issues of Ethiopian modernity within a national and international context. In many areas including, but not limited to, Ethiopia’s image as a sovereign black nation influenced and came to dominate debates on movements that ranged from Pan-Africanism to Afrocentrism in the twentieth century. The conference aimed to bring forth a transnational epistemological paradigm that can shed light on the current political, cultural and intellectual complexities of Africa’s oldest independent nation-state.
