Council on African Studies Lecture Series: “Identity History from Below: An Ethnographic Account of Wollo-Borena in Ethiopia”

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on African Studies Lecture Series presents

Yemiamrew Jorgi Teferi, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Wollo University and visiting Scholar at the Council on African Studies in the Macmillan Center, Yale University: 

“Identity History from Below: An Ethnographic Account of Wollo-Borena in Ethiopia.”

Coming from Ethiopia, Dr. Yemiamrew Jorgi Teferi is a visiting Scholar at the Council on African Studies in the Macmillan Center, Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, an M.A. in Multicultural and Multilingual Education, and a B.A. in Amharic Language and Literature. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research on the political cultural construction of regional identity and peoplehood with particular focus on an ethnically and religiously heterogenous Ethiopian province called Wollo. He also taught several courses in Anthropology, Language and Folklore, Music, and Education including “Anthropology of Education” to Yale students during the 2024 fall semester.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public