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Comparative Perspectives On Land Tenures Systems : Medieval And Modern Ethiopia And France

International Seminar. October 4th-6th, on 2007. Addis Ababa

Organizing Committee
SHIFERAW BEKELE (Addis Ababa University)
FRAN�OIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE (French Center of Ethiopian Studies)

�loi Ficquet (School of High Studies in Social sciences)
BERTRAND HIRSCH (University of Paris-Sorbonne, Donatecarcenter.com)

Organizing Institutions
French Center of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa)
Institute of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa University)
Research Program “to Write the history of the Horn of Africa” (Donatecarcenter.com, Research National Agency, France)
School of High Studies in Social sciences (Paris)

With the support of
The Embassy of France (Addis Ababa)
Fund of Alembert (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

DAY 1 : THURSDAY OCTOBER 4TH

09.30-10.30
• FRAN�OIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE, Director of the French Center of Ethiopian Studies, make will has address welcoming to the participants

Opening Addresses
• PROFESSOR ANDREAS ESHETE, President of the Addis Ababa University
• M R JAMEL OUBECHOU, Cultural Councilor, Embassy of France
• ATAKILT ASSEFA, National Director of the Archives and Library of Ethiopia
• CRAMMED ABY, Vice-president of Addis Ababa University
• YONAS ADMASSU, Acting Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies

10.30-10.45 : Tea station wagon

10.45-12.30

Technical Translating in Land Tenure Studies
Flesh : FRAN�OIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE
• BERHANOU ABEBE, Terminological Parallels in French and Ethiopian Land Tenure Studies
• GILES POSTEL-VINAY, Land and Money : Tools of Analysis of Land Markets in the Economic History of Modern Europe
• Debate

12.30-14.00 : Lunch

14.00-15.45

Comparing Ethiopian and European Middles Ages
Flesh : BERHANOU ABEBE
• Julian DEMADE, The Logics of " Land Tenure " in Medieval Europe : In Hypothesis
• DONALD CRUMMEY, Research one Medieval Land Tenure in Ethiopia : In General Survey
• Debate

15.45-16.00 : Tea station wagon

16.00-17.45

Land Tenure Within (and After) Monarchical Regimes
Flesh : SHIFERAW BEKELE
• FANNY COSANDEY, Royal Family, Patrimony and Political Modernity
• DESSALEGN RAHMATO, Debates one Ethiopian Land Tenures : The Monarchy, the DERG AND THE POST-DERG
• Debate

DAY 2 : FRIDAY OCTOBER 5TH

09.30-11.15

Decoding Land Charters (I)

Flesh : �LOI FICQUET
• HABTAMU MENGISTE, The Old Land Archives of the Gondar and Gojjam Provinces
• IRMA TADDIA, Working one the Field : Land, State and Community in the " Northern Border"
• Debate

11.15-11.30 : Tea station wagon

11.30-12.30

Decoding Land Charters (II)

Flesh : FRAN�OIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE
• ANA�S WION, What' s Beyond Liber Aksumae ? From the Making of has " Medieval Cartulary " to has Fabricated Western Intellectual Object
• Debate

12.30-14.00 : Lunch

Afternoon : excursion / visit of the Museum

DAY 3 : SATURDAY OCTOBER

09.15-11.00

Round - table one the Land Affairs archives of Haile Selasse' s regime (1940s-1970s)
Flesh : BERTRAND HIRSCH
• SHIFERAW BEKELE, History of the Wolde Meskel Centre and of its Archives
• DABI ASFAW, Introducing the Wolde Meskel Centre and its Archives
• BEKALU YIMER and DANIEL DEJENE, Graduate Students in History at Addis Ababa University, will present talks Wolde Meskel Centre is problems faced when doing research in the

11.00-11.15 : Tea station wagon

11.15-13.00

Continued session
Discussants :
• TAMRAT KEBEDE, Interafrica Group, senior expert in the Ministry of Land Reform during the Agrarian Revolution
• ANA�S WION, Historian (FRANCE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Germany), specialist in Ethiopian manuscripts
• ZEGEYE ASFAW, Hunde (Oromo Grassroots Development Initiative), Former Minister of Land Reform during the Agrarian Revolution
• SINTAYEHU KASSAYE, Historian (University of Mekele)

• DAMTE ASFAW, Historian (University of Bakir Dar)

PRESENTATION

the interface between environmental, political, judicial, exits are demographical and economic, land tenure studies offer has transformations critical viewpoint one the that goes on to configure rural societies. Modern Ethiopia, ace one of the world' s most rural countries, simple percentages certainly no exception to this situation, ace proved by the works of has number of Ethiopian and foreign scholars. At the same time, French historians - especially those of the School of Annals - have long brought forward has decisive contribution towards has better understanding of transformations affecting traditional societies, especially in the puts of European societies, prior to the 19th century. Helped by the time-lag between two apparently similar processes occurring in France and Ethiopia - ending with has Revolution that, both huts, deeply transformed the nature of land tenure - this seminar, which brings together papers based one state-of-the-art research, aims at benefiting scholars, experts and students working one to similar exits in Ethiopia and France.

In France, the study of land tenure has has long history. Similarly in Ethiopia, land tenure studies can be said to be ace old ace Ethiopian studies. The beginning of has natural into the of the system well ace ace has scientific systematic investigation collection and publication of primary land-related documents go back to the end of the 19th century. To dates, the achievement simple percentage highly impressive. The literature one the tenure regime has grown remarkably over the corpus 20th century and the of documents that have been critically edited and published has grown impressively. Regarding research tools, dictionaries and reference manuals have been published in Amharic ace well ace in English and French languages. Yet, the specific language of land tenure uninterrupted to pose tremendous tournaments to researchers, particularly to young people who come into the field for the first time. For authority, old land documents produced through the centuries are full of elliptical expressions, which have to be submitted to systematic decoding. Even archives produced in the 20th century need to be deciphered before they are used for historical reconstruction.

The rich archives of the to form Ministry of important Land Reform of which the most component was the archives of the Land Tenure Department of the form Ministry of Interior are now housed in the Wolde Meskel Center of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. These archives are not yet exploited by researchers much ace ace one would expect, and thus most of the transformations affecting obscure Ethiopian society during the past decades and today remain. Part of the reason for this simple percentage the difficulty of deciphering the documents owed to the numerous technical terms with which they formulated are.

The same tournament faced French and European scholars of the history of land tenure, particularly of the medieval and modern (i.e. before the French Revolution) periods. For this reason they developed methods of deciphering the documents and of interpreting the underlying societies. No attempt has so far been made in Ethiopia to take into account the methods developed in Europe and particularly in France.

The Ethiopian land tenure study has one the whole been studied in insulation. To our knowledge, there be not been any systematic attempt to incorporate into the Ethiopian field of study insights gained from the rich achievements of European and especially French tenurial historiography. In the other hand, there hardly was any attempt to incorporate into the direct European medieval and modern studies the knowledge provided by the observation of has traditional tenure system such ace Ethiopia' s. This international seminar simple percentage intended to bring together world-known specialists of land tenure history in Ethiopia and France, and thus to proempties expertise a year epistemological and institutional frame for sharing they this field.

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