Monday, 25 March 2019
9-9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt)
Zenawi Zerihun (Mekelle)
Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha)
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30-12 a.m.
Historiography
Tewodros Hailemariam (Dilla): Marxist Studies of Africa during the Global Cold War
Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha): Towards a New Historiography of Conflict: The Ethiopian Famine, International Aid, Pictures and Publicity
Comment: Sintayehu Kassaye (Mekelle)
12-1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30-3:45 p.m.
Cold War Diplomacy and African Internationalism
Abraha Woldu (Bule Hora): Venturing into African Nationalism: A Shift in Ethiopia’s Foreign Relations and Domestic Scenes
Michael Pesek (Berlin): African Perspectives on the Cold War
Thomas Spielbüchler (Linz): Conflict Management in Africa: Historical Problems of a Forward-thinking Idea
Maximilian Vogel (Berlin): Across the Iron Curtain: The Organizations of African Students in the GDR as a Part of Transnational Networks
Comment: Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha)
3:45-4:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:15-6:30 p.m.
The German Democratic Republic and Africa
Paul Sprute (Berlin) and Maximilian Vogel (Berlin): Ideology and Practice Intertwined: Towards an Integrated Understanding of Socialist ‘International Solidarity’: The Case of the GDR and Angola
Paul Sprute (Berlin): Exercising ‘International Solidarity’: The Brigadetagebücher of the FDJ-Freundschaftsbrigaden in Angola and the Experience of Young East Germans in the Global Cold War
Franziska Rantzsch (Erfurt): The German Democratic Republic, Cold War Rhetoric and “International Solidarity”: Media Depictions of the Ethiopian Famine (1984/85) in a Socialist State
Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt): Africa and East Germany in Human Rights and International Law: Intellectual and Material Entanglements
Comment: Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt)
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
9-10:45 a.m.
International Rivalries and the Horn of Africa
Meressa Tsehaye (Mekelle): Nation Building, Liberation Struggles and Role of External Powers in the Horn of Africa: The Case of Eritrea and Ethiopia
Christian Methfessel (Erfurt): “The Russians are in a sense in the right”: The United Kingdom and the Ogaden War, 1977-1978
Paul Skäbe (Erfurt): Paul Henze’s Journeys in Ethiopia and in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s National Security Council
Comment: Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle)
10:45-11 a.m.
Coffee Break
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Cold War and the Horn: Social and Political Developments
Dessalegn Bizuneh (Gonder): The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, Cold War Rivalry and Aftereffects on the Growth of Matama
Florian Wagner (Erfurt): Questioning Humanitarian Return Migration: Cold War Repatriations in Ethiopia
Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle): Development Interventions in the Kobo-Alamata Valley: 1960s-2017
Gereziher Haftu (Mekelle): Cold War Intervention and its Implication in the Militarization of the Horn of Africa
Comment: Peter Nadig (Mekelle)
1-2 p.m.
Lunch
2-4:15 p.m.
A New Cold War? Geopolitics in the Horn
Tesfahunegn Haile Mariam (Mekelle) and Mulubrhan Adane (Mekelle): The Cold War, Foreign Intervention and its Consequences in the Horn of Africa
Gebremedhin Gebremichael (Mekelle): Renewed Rivalry of Global and Regional Powers in the Horn of Africa
Abrha Tesfay (Mekelle): The Rebirth of Cold War Era and its Impact on the Destiny of the Horn
Solomon Abraha (Mekelle): Reckoning with the Post-Cold War, the End of Liberal Internationalism, the Era of Strongman and the Horn of Africa: Changes, Continuities and Context
Comment: Christian Methfessel (Erfurt)
4:15-4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:45-5:30 p.m.
Concluding Remark
Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt)
Sintayehu Kassaye (Mekelle)
Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha)
Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle)