Alexander Meckelburg

@UCLHistory @AethiopJournal

[Aethiopica @AethiopJournal]

We are excited to finally see the new volume of Aethiopica!!!

Volume 28 (2025) is waiting for you - all articles in open access.
https://t.co/mh4QOaUVTv

[jonahwedekind @jowedekind]

The afterlife of the land rush.

[Rift Valley Institute @RVInews]

Who decides what counts as research?

Episode 5 of the Beyond Series examines how funding, power and global research systems shape whose knowledge is valued and whose voices are heard.

Listen: https://t.co/DWo4VBqdZ8
More: https://t.co/0WlDpnuqEC

[Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac @BeInfProject]

Now available on YouTube: a lecture on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King” given at the University of Toronto (@UofTNMC ) by BeInf Project PI Aaron Butts

https://t.co/eHZ2nQDjoc

[Sophia Dege-Müller @SophiaDeMue]

Congratulations to all the authors! 🤩

[The Africa Institute @theafricainst]

This afternoon, Yonas Ashine Demisse (@yonniashine), Ali Mazrui Senior Fellow in Global African Studies at @theafricainst, presented his research “Ethiopia in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Pan-Africanism, and Global Encounters.”

Moderated by Surafel Abebe (@suralem04), the session explored Ethiopia’s diplomacy, Pan-Africanism, and racial consciousness (late 19th–early 20th c.), sparking rich dialogue among students, faculty, and the broader academic community.

Learn more about our fellows in residence & upcoming events: https://t.co/coVB7oGi4j

#AfricanStudies #GlobalStudies #Fellows #Sharjah

[Alexander Meckelburg @AMeckelburg]

Publication day:

[Aethiopica @AethiopJournal]

We are very excited about the latest SUPPLEMENT to Aethiopica:

Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopian Studies

‼️Its available in print and open access: https://t.co/NAnWLnykqJ

[Aethiopica @AethiopJournal]

Publication day! 🤩🥳
We are extremely excited to share the new volume of AETHIOPICA with you!
Vol. 27 (2024) is hot off the press, and also available online in open access!
https://t.co/mh4QOaUVTv

[Dr. Solomon Gebreyes @solomonGebreyes]

Join our panel "Ethiopian Historiography: Evolution, Diversity, and Transformation" at https://t.co/Znsm3k1HhA. Explore Ethiopia’s rich historical traditions from the 14th century to the modern period. Submit your abstract 250–300 words.https://t.co/ASHjNSLwEl

[Alexander Meckelburg @AMeckelburg]

@haimanot85 @JekapOmod Enjoy the stimulating deliberations of Ethiopian thinkers and intellectuals of the 1920s and 1930s debating the end of slavery in Ethiopia. Exhibition still open till 15th Dec. Best wishes.

[Alexander Meckelburg @AMeckelburg]

@haimanot85 @JekapOmod Thank you for your concern. Please visit the exhibition ‘Ethiopian Abolitionist Voices’ at the IES in Addis Ababa.

[UCL History @UCLHistory]

Alexander Meckelburg (UCL) and Takele Merid (Institute of Ethiopian Studies) opened the exhibition “Ethiopian Abolitionist Voices” at Addis Ababa University!

[Yonas Ashine Demisse @yonniashine]

Join us tomorrow to see , think and talk about slavery and abolition. Perhaps a history of the present at AAU/ IES

[UCL History @UCLHistory]

Michelle Liebst (UCL) opened the AFRAB exhibition at Fort Jesus Museum and Heritage Site in Mombasa on 12 September!

The 'East African Voices Against Slavery' exhibition was organised with Saadu Hashim, Fatma Twahir, Abdulmajid Igombo, Thomas Kadenge, and Maxwell Kibet.

[Anglo-Ethiopian Society @AngloEthiopian]

Interested in #Slavery and #Ethiopia? Join us next week to hear @AMeckelburg Alexander Meckelburg talk on this topic and about it's abolition circa 1920-1942. Thursday 18 July at 19.00 BST.  
Please book on Eventbrite to get a Zoom link: https://t.co/CMDIZ6fi95

[UCL History @UCLHistory]

Our Research Fellow, Michael Odijie, is in Lagos finishing the set up for the AFRAB Project's exhibition "Nigerian Voices Against Slavery" that is opening at the National Museum, Lagos State, today! 🇳🇬

Find out more: https://t.co/9JogSlvvTn

[Anglo-Ethiopian Society @AngloEthiopian]

Our next lecture is on Thursday 18 July at 19.00 BST. Alexander Meckelburg @AMeckelburg will talk about #Slavery and its Abolition in #Ethiopia, circa 1920-1942.

Please book on Eventbrite to reserve your place and get a Zoom link: https://t.co/CMDIZ6fi95

[terrefebiruk.bsky @terrefebiruk]

The conference organisers are particularly keen for abstracts from Ethiopian scholars, so please submit!