Program

Friday 19 November

Location : Ras Mekonnen Hall, Addis Ababa University

• 8:40 am Welcoming address, Dr. Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis, Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and Director of the Skunder Boghossian College of Performing and Visual Arts, AAU.
• 8:50 Opening Remarks - Ato Dawud Muhammed, State Minister, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
• 9:00 Significance of the workshop, Sheikh Ahmedin Sheikh Abdullahin Chello President, the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, Addis Ababa.
• 9:10 “Jeba” traditional Coffee Ceremony - Coffee break

PANEL 1

Moderator : Dr Fekade Azeze, Addis Ababa University

• 9:50 An Hommage to the Late Berhanu Gebeyehu’s Study on Menzuma Literature - Dr. Eloi Ficquet, French Center for Ethiopian Studies.
• 10:00 Heroic qualities of Epic standards in Menzuma - Assefa Mamo, Bahir Dar University
• 10:30 Eighty Five Years of Inter-disciplinary study on Menzuma and Manzuma related genres : An overview - Kemal Abdulwehab, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, AAU
• 11:00 A Brief Stay with the Menzuma star : Sheikh Muhammed Awol Hamza. Introduction by Ato Idris Muhammed, department of Philology, AAU. Performance of two menzumas by Sheikh Muhammed Awol Hamza
• 11:30 End of the first panel – closing remarks by the organizing committee.
• 12:00 Lunch break

Afternoon : Friday prayer time – no paper presentations

• 4:30 Cocktail at the Skunder Boghossian college (situated at Siddist Kilo, in front of Oromia Supreme Court, on the beginning of the road to the French Embassy)

Saturday 20 November

Location : Ras Mekonnen Hall, Addis Ababa University

PANEL 2

Moderator : Ato Ahmed Zekaria, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, AAU

• 9:00 Menzuma tradition in the Harari region of Ethiopia : Preliminary observations - Dr Simone Tarsitani, Durham University, UK.
• 9:30 The role of Zikiri to Harari people : past and present - Muna Abubakir, Linguistics and Philology Department, AAU.
• 10:00 Women and children’s religious repertoires in and around Harar - Dr Ilaria Sartori, Independent scholar, Italy
• 10:30 Coffee break

Moderator : Mr Francis Falceto

• 10:45 Zikri in Harari Pop songs - Dr Wube Kassaye, Yared School, AAU.
• 11:15 An analysis of a Menzuma text collected in Awsa, Afar region - Dr Eloi Ficquet, French Center for Ethiopian Studies & Aramis Houmed Soulé, French Center for Ethiopian Studies
• 11:45 General Discussion
• 12:00 Lunch Break

PANEL 3

Moderator : Ato Semieneh Ayalew, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, AAU.

• 14:00 The Characteristic features of Menzuma as a Genre of its own and the functions it serves : An Ethnographic approach - Rukya Hassen, Wallo University.
• 14:30 The role of Zekkara in narration of oral history in Arsi - Hassen Muhammed Kao, Arabic Department, AAU
• 15:00 Coffee Break

Moderator : Dr Alula Pankhurst

• 15:15 Evocating and Evicting Awlya (Saints) : A Few Comments on Menzuma Performance in Oromya Regional State - Dr Thomas Osmond, Haramaya University.
• 15:45 Glorifying the Virtues of the Prophet and the Virtues of Local saints : The Shonki, Geta, and Chali Menzuma of Wallo - Dr. Ahmed Hassen, Addis Ababa University
• 16:15 General Discussion
• 16:45 End of the workshop

18:30-20:00 Menzuma Concert at the Alliance Ethio-Française

with :

• Muhamed Awol Hamza (Amharic)
• Qetibare group (Gurage)
• Raya Abba Mecha (Oromo)
• Eliyas Ahmed Adus (Harari)

Organizing Institutions :  Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University - Centre français pour les études éthiopiennes (Addis Abeba)