Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir

In this public talk, Elleni Centime Zeleke, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, analyzes whether Tizita, the Amharic term for memory and nostalgia as well as a musical form of lament, can serve as a tool for capturing the untimely interference of the past in stories of the Ethiopian revolution. Recorded March 17, 2021.
This talk is part of Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds Winter 2021 Online Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.