Friday 29th April 2022
14:00-15:00 Registration & welcome tea and coffee
15:00-15:30 Introductory remarks
Panel 1 – The Hatata Zera Yacob: Preliminaries
Chair: Mr Eyob Derillo (British Library)
15:30-16:30 Dr Ralph Lee (School of Oriental and African Studies) ‘Reflections on Translation the Hatata into English’
16:30-17:30 Prof. Peter Adamson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/King's College London) ‘The Place of Ethiopian Philosophy in the History of Philosophy’
17:30 Refreshments & nibbles
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Saturday 30th April 2022
Panel 2 – Contextual possibilities: The Hatata in the 17th century
Chair: Mr Eyob Derillo (British Library)
9:00-10:00 Mr Binyam Mekonnen (Addis Ababa University) ‘Critique and Emancipation in the Religious Sphere: the Däqiqä Ǝsṭifanos as a Foundation of Ethiopian Critical Theory’
10:00-10:30 Mr Mauricio Lapchik Minski (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) ‘The Mäqśäftä hassätat or Against the Libel of the Ethiopians – A 17th Century Catholic Response [and Request] to the Christological Position of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’
10:30-11:00 Tea & coffee break
11:00-12:00 Mr Eyasu Berento (Kotebe University of Education) ‘Zera Yacob and Wolde Hiwot - 17th C Ethiopia Freethinkers: Exceptionality and Situated-ness of the ‘Hatetas’ in the Ethiopian Intellectual Tradition’
12:00-12:45 Panel discussion (also including day 1 speakers)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
Panel 3 – Legacy and Authenticity: The Hatata in the 20th century
Chair: Dr Sara Marzagora (King’s College London)
14:00-15:00 Prof. Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) ‘Italian colonialism and orientalism in Ethiopia’
15:00-16:00 Dr Anaïs Wion (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) ‘The place of the Hatata in African philosophy since the 1960s’
16:00-16:30 Tea & coffee break
16:30-17:30 Dr Fasil Merawi (Addis Ababa University) ‘Examining the Hatetas as a Foundation of Ethiopian Philosophy’
17:30-18:15 Panel discussion
18:15-18:30 Tea & coffee break
19:30 Conference dinner (speakers & chairs only)
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Sunday 1st May 2022
Panel 4 – The Hatata and the History of Philosophy
Chair: Mr Jonathan Egid (King’s College London)
9:00-9:30 Dr Anke Graness (University of Hildesheim) ‘Of forgeries and misinterpretations’
9:30-10:30 Prof. John Marenbon (University of Cambridge) ‘Does it matter who wrote it? Zera Yacob, forgery and pseudonymity in the history of philosophy’
10:30-11:00 Tea & coffee break
11:00-12:00 Prof. Justin E. H. Smith (University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot) ‘Assessing the Evidence for Zera Yacub's Authenticity from the Point of View of the History of Philosophy’
12:00-12:45 Panel discussion
12:45-14:00 Tea & coffee break
Panel 5 – The Philosophy of the Hatata
Chair: Lea Cantor (University of Oxford)
14:00-14:45 Henry Straughan (University of Oxford) & Michael O'Connor (University of Oxford) ‘Grace and Reason in the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob’
14:45-15:45 Teshome Abera (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University) ‘Zara Yacob ሐተታ “Hatata”; Its Historical and Social Reality’
15:45-16:15 Tea & coffee break
16:15-16:45 Mr Brooh Asmare (Mekelle University) ‘The Authenticity of the Hatatas from the Perspective of the Cultural History of Ethiopia’
16:45-17:30 Panel discussion
End of Conference
19:30 Post-Conference Pub (Attendees welcome)
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Please note that the Conference is going ahead in hybrid format on 29th April-1st May 2022. Health and safety advice means that we are currently unable to guarantee that in-person attendance will be possible for non-speakers, but there will be an opportunity to meet the speakers at the in-person end-of-conference pub meeting in Oxford on Sunday 1st May, from 19:30 onwards.
To register for the Conference, please follow this link.
Conference abstracts can be consulted here.
The conference is organized with the generous support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; the Mind Association; the Aristotelian Society; the British Society for the History of Philosophy; the Hinton Clarendon Fellowship, Worcester College; and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
The Conference organizers
Jonathan Egid, Lea Cantor, Justin Holder, and Johann Go
14:00-15:00 Registration & welcome tea and coffee
15:00-15:30 Introductory remarks
Panel 1 – The Hatata Zera Yacob: Preliminaries
Chair: Mr Eyob Derillo (British Library)
15:30-16:30 Dr Ralph Lee (School of Oriental and African Studies) ‘Reflections on Translation the Hatata into English’
16:30-17:30 Prof. Peter Adamson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/King's College London) ‘The Place of Ethiopian Philosophy in the History of Philosophy’
17:30 Refreshments & nibbles
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Saturday 30th April 2022
Panel 2 – Contextual possibilities: The Hatata in the 17th century
Chair: Mr Eyob Derillo (British Library)
9:00-10:00 Mr Binyam Mekonnen (Addis Ababa University) ‘Critique and Emancipation in the Religious Sphere: the Däqiqä Ǝsṭifanos as a Foundation of Ethiopian Critical Theory’
10:00-10:30 Mr Mauricio Lapchik Minski (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) ‘The Mäqśäftä hassätat or Against the Libel of the Ethiopians – A 17th Century Catholic Response [and Request] to the Christological Position of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’
10:30-11:00 Tea & coffee break
11:00-12:00 Mr Eyasu Berento (Kotebe University of Education) ‘Zera Yacob and Wolde Hiwot - 17th C Ethiopia Freethinkers: Exceptionality and Situated-ness of the ‘Hatetas’ in the Ethiopian Intellectual Tradition’
12:00-12:45 Panel discussion (also including day 1 speakers)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
Panel 3 – Legacy and Authenticity: The Hatata in the 20th century
Chair: Dr Sara Marzagora (King’s College London)
14:00-15:00 Prof. Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University) ‘Italian colonialism and orientalism in Ethiopia’
15:00-16:00 Dr Anaïs Wion (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) ‘The place of the Hatata in African philosophy since the 1960s’
16:00-16:30 Tea & coffee break
16:30-17:30 Dr Fasil Merawi (Addis Ababa University) ‘Examining the Hatetas as a Foundation of Ethiopian Philosophy’
17:30-18:15 Panel discussion
18:15-18:30 Tea & coffee break
19:30 Conference dinner (speakers & chairs only)
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Sunday 1st May 2022
Panel 4 – The Hatata and the History of Philosophy
Chair: Mr Jonathan Egid (King’s College London)
9:00-9:30 Dr Anke Graness (University of Hildesheim) ‘Of forgeries and misinterpretations’
9:30-10:30 Prof. John Marenbon (University of Cambridge) ‘Does it matter who wrote it? Zera Yacob, forgery and pseudonymity in the history of philosophy’
10:30-11:00 Tea & coffee break
11:00-12:00 Prof. Justin E. H. Smith (University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot) ‘Assessing the Evidence for Zera Yacub's Authenticity from the Point of View of the History of Philosophy’
12:00-12:45 Panel discussion
12:45-14:00 Tea & coffee break
Panel 5 – The Philosophy of the Hatata
Chair: Lea Cantor (University of Oxford)
14:00-14:45 Henry Straughan (University of Oxford) & Michael O'Connor (University of Oxford) ‘Grace and Reason in the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob’
14:45-15:45 Teshome Abera (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University) ‘Zara Yacob ሐተታ “Hatata”; Its Historical and Social Reality’
15:45-16:15 Tea & coffee break
16:15-16:45 Mr Brooh Asmare (Mekelle University) ‘The Authenticity of the Hatatas from the Perspective of the Cultural History of Ethiopia’
16:45-17:30 Panel discussion
End of Conference
19:30 Post-Conference Pub (Attendees welcome)
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Please note that the Conference is going ahead in hybrid format on 29th April-1st May 2022. Health and safety advice means that we are currently unable to guarantee that in-person attendance will be possible for non-speakers, but there will be an opportunity to meet the speakers at the in-person end-of-conference pub meeting in Oxford on Sunday 1st May, from 19:30 onwards.
To register for the Conference, please follow this link.
Conference abstracts can be consulted here.
The conference is organized with the generous support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; the Mind Association; the Aristotelian Society; the British Society for the History of Philosophy; the Hinton Clarendon Fellowship, Worcester College; and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
The Conference organizers
Jonathan Egid, Lea Cantor, Justin Holder, and Johann Go