Christian Methfessel, Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München – Berlin (IfZ)
Thursday, 22 September 2022
11 a.m.
Guided Tour
Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstraße
12:30-1 p.m.
Arrival
1-1:30 p.m.
Welcome
Christian Werkmeister (Erfurt/ Weimar)
Iris Schröder (Erfurt/ Gotha)
1:30-2 p.m.
Introduction
Organizers
2:15-3:45 p.m.
Academic Mobilities, Decolonization and the Cold War
Chair: Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt)
Eric Burton (Innsbruck): The Pen and the Gun: African Liberation Movements and Educational Trajectories
Marcia Schenck (Potsdam): Cold War Policies, Scholarship Programs and Decolonization Struggles: African Refugee Students of the late 1960s
Comment: Florian Wagner (Erfurt)
3:45-4:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:15-5:45 p.m.
Academic Mobilities between Africa and Eastern Europe
Chair: Kelemework Tafere (Mekelle)
Lorena Anton (Bucharest)/ Laura Bisaillon (Toronto): The Politics of RED-Education. Ethiopian-Romanian Academic Exchanges during Ceaușescu’s Regime
Jan Záhořík (Pilsen): Education as a Socialist Modernity: Closer Look at Czechoslovak-Ethiopian Relations in the Cold War
Comment: Nikolaus Graf Vitzthum (New Haven)
6-6:30 p.m.
Wrap-Up Discussion Day 1
Chair: Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt)
Introductory Note: Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt)
8 p.m.
Dinner
Friday, 23 September 2022
8:30-10 a.m.
East-South Information and Media Entanglements
Chair: Florian Wagner (Erfurt)
Robert Heinze (Paris): Solidarity on the Air: Southern African “Liberation Radios” in the Context of East-South and South-South Relations
Mikuláš Pešta (Prague): Africans and the Media of the “Communist Geneva”. The Role of Africans in the Communication of the International Organizations Based in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Comment: Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt)
10-10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Intelligence Cooperation and Clandestine Knowledge Networks
Chair: Sue Onslow (London)
Robin Möser (Leipzig): Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network: Cooperation with France and Germany, 1968-1978
Jan Koura (Prague): Imbalanced Partnership: Czechoslovakia, Morocco and the Global Cold War in Africa in 1960s
Comment: Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt)
12-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:45-3:45 p.m.
Arms Trade and Mercenaries in Cold War Africa
Chair: Christian Methfessel (Berlin)
Sue Onslow (London): Histories of ‘Foreign Mercenaries’ or ‘Ideological Foot Soldiers’ in the Rhodesian War
Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt): The Two German States and the Evolution of Arms Trafficking to Africa in the Cold War
Milorad Lazić (Washington, D.C.): Yugoslavia’s Military Aid to Ethiopia and the Ogaden War
Comment: Jan Záhořík (Pilsen)
3:45-4:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:15-6:15 p.m.
The Ethiopian-Somali Conflict in a Cold War Perspective
Chair: Teferi Mekonnen (Addis Ababa)
Alemayehu Kumsa (Mladá Boleslav): The Role of Cold War Politics in the Conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia
Natalia Telepneva (Glasgow): The Soviet Embassy in Addis Ababa in the Run-Up to the Ethiopian-Somali War, 1974-1977
Yonas Seifu (Jimma): The Role of Superpowers in the Ethio-Somalia War of 1977
Comment: Christian Methfessel (Berlin)
6:30-7 p.m.
Wrap-Up Discussion Day 2
Chair: Jan Záhořík (Pilsen)
Introductory Note: Aychegrew Hadera (Bahir Dar)
8 p.m.
Conference Dinner
Saturday, 24 September 2022
8:30-10 a.m.
Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Contested Territory and Resources
Chair: Christian Methfessel (Berlin)
Haile Muluken (Addis Ababa): The Nourishing and Sacking Effects of the Cold War on Ethiopia’s Regional Interests, ca. 1941 to the Present
Teferi Mekonnen (Addis Ababa): The Cold War and the Hydropolitics of the Eastern Nile River
Comment: Ketebo Abdiyo (Jimma)
10-10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30-11:45 a.m.
New Ethiopian Sources on Cold War History
Chair: Iris Schröder (Erfurt/ Gotha)
Aychegrew Hadera (Bahir Dar): Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy in the Time of the Dergue: New Evidence from Political Memoirs
Haile Muluken (Addis Ababa)/ Teferi Mekonnen (Addis Ababa)/ Christian Methfessel (Berlin): Round Table: Conducting Research in Ethiopian Archives
12-1 p.m.
Final Discussion
Chair: Christian Methfessel (Berlin)
Introductory Note: Ketebo Abdiyo (Jimma)