2:00 – 2:10 PM • Welcoming Remarks
Biddy Martin, Provost, Cornell University 

2:10 – 2:20 PM • Welcoming Remarks
Salah M. Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Symposium Co-Convener
                                     
2:20 – 2:30 PM • Introductory Remarks
Petrine Archer-Straw, Visiting Associate Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center and Department of History of Art, Cornell University, Symposium Co-Convener

2:45– 5:00 PM SESSION I: 
ETHIOPIA: OF LEGENDS AND LEGACIES

Chair:
Locksley Edmondson, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Ayele Bekerie, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
“The Battle of Adwa and its Meanings.”

Richard Pankhurst, Chairman, Society of the Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“A History of Photography in Ethiopia.”

Demeke Berhane, Chief Archivist, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“Studying the Ethiopian Archive.”

Discussant:             
Achamyeleh Debela, Professor and Director of Computing Center, Department of Art, North Carolina Central University

5:15 – 6:15 PM • KEYNOTE ADDRESS 

Introduction:
James Turner, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Guest Speaker:
Ali Mazrui, Director and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Institute of Global Cultural Studies,Binghamton University, SUNY and Sr. Scholar, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
“Images of the Ethiopian in Politics and Culture: From the Meuzzin Bilal to the Opera 'Aida'.”

6:30 – 8:00 PM • WELCOMING RECEPTION

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