Round-table talk on Fieldwork in Ethiopia [youtube live streaming]
Date＆Time : 17:00-18:00, 12th March 2022
Language: English
Organizers: ZAIRAICHI Research group, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas(A) “Lifelong sciences: Reconceptualization of development and aging in the super aging society “[No.20H05806]; SATREPS-MNGD[JPMJSA1807]; JSPS Scientific Research Fund-B on Reconsidering the Concept of Waste and Formation of Materiality in Africa [No.18H03444]; IAfP program in Kyoto University; Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University.
https://mngd.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news_en/round-table-talk-on-field-work-in-ethiopia
General outline:
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) unilaterally initiated conflict in northern Ethiopia in November 2020. However, partly because of the spread of COVID-19, most people who have been engaged in research and aid projects in Ethiopia have been unable to travel and have thus received information about this conflict indirectly. In this round table talk, Shigeta Masayoshi (Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University) will interview Dr. Jan Abbink (African Studies Center, Leiden University) a guest speaker who has been conducting research in Ethiopia for many years, to discuss the background to the conflict’s outbreak and what has happened since. Young researchers will join the latter part of the round table talk to discuss the future of fieldwork in Ethiopia.
Guest Speaker: Jan Abbink, African Studies Center, Leiden University
Participants:
Masayoshi Shigeta, ASAFAS, Kyoto University
Shunsuke Matsukuma, The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Eunji Choi, ASAFAS, Kyoto University
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8xxaxddfg