The project planned an exchange of knowledge between Ethiopian academics and local experts. In this environment the archived material was discussed, commented upon and utilized for further research. The results of this collaborative work was set up in two workshops held in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa and Hawassa) and one lecture series at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. 

The presentations of the workshop at Hawassa University were published in a special issue of "Ityopis": http://www.ityopis.org/Issues-Extra-3.html

Workshop "Research & Displacement of Cultural Heritage from Ethiopia" -  October 2nd 2015, Goethe-Institute, Addis Abeba

Lecturers:

Getachew Senishaw (Social Anthropology Department, Addis Ababa University):

Policies and regulations on repatriation and restitution of cultural heritage in Ethiopia. 

Ahmed Zekaria (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa):

Six decades of experience. The IES Museum revisited.

Haile Muluken (Mekelle University): 

Documentaion and removal of Ethiopia heritages by Italians and the Italian state. A discussion of past and present endeavors for memora preservation.

Sophia Thubauville (Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main):

Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius-Institute and displaced objects in Frankfurt. 

Kansite Gellebo Korra (Arba Minch University):

Waaka and their present status in Konso. 

Fesseha Berhe (Mekelle University):

Archaeological excavations and local communities.

Ivo Strecker:

In defense of anthropology. The preservation of non-material heritage.

Frankfurter Südäthiopien Forschung: Eine Retrospektive

April 18, 2016 - Herbert Lewis (Madison): Sixty years of anthropology in Ethiopia

April 25, 2016 - S.K.H. Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate: Haile Selassie und die äthiopische Moderne 

May 2, 2016 - Dirk Bustorf (Hamburg): Oral informants and the Frankfurt tradition of ethnographic research in Southern Ethiopia

May 9, 2016 - Susanne Epple (Frankfurt am Main): Strikte Abgrenzung oder flexible Kategorien? Neue Einsichten in die Forschungen des Frobenius-Instituts zu sogenannten Handwerker-, Jäger-  und Sklavenkasten Äthiopiens

May 23, 2016 - Jon Abbink (Leiden): „Wie es eigentlich gewesen...“ - Eike Haberland’s Rankean approach to African cultures, and its legacy today

May 30, 2016 - Ulrich Braukämper (Göttingen): Feldforschung im Spannungsfeld von ethnischemPartikularismus. Beispiele aus Süd-Äthiopien

July 4, 2016 - Ivo Strecker (Mekelle): A. E. Jensen's style of thinking and writing

July 11, 2016 - Itsushi Kawase (Osaka): Ethnographic Filmmaking in Ethiopia

Bibliography of publications by Frobenius Insitute members on Ethiopia. This bibliography only contains published texts that are concerned with Ethiopian Studies.

Over a 60-year period (1935 - 1994) the research of the Frobenius Institute specialised on southern Ethiopia. The enormous amount of ethnographic material that was collected back then (Haberland in 1963, Jensen in 1936 and Straube in 1963), includes the legacies of Jensen and Haberland (comprising of various documents such as travel reports, letters, notebooks and unpublished ethnographies) and reveals this very special interest in southern Ethiopia.

The surviving material from these research trips represents a unique documentation of southern Ethiopia, for both ethnographical and historical reasons. It had been collected in an area which at that time had not yet been fully explored and also where the proselytization of the local population by foreign missionaries had not yet started. The proselytization that occured during the 1960s, in addition to the socialistic regime which ruled Ethiopia between 1974 and 1987, introduced radical cultural and social changes for the population of South Ethiopia. The anthropologists of the Frobenius expeditions were amongst some of the few scientists who had the chance to document southern Ethiopia before these changes.

The legacies are available via the archive database.

Over a 60-year period (1935 - 1994) the research of the Frobenius Institute specialized on Southern Ethiopia. The focus of its outstanding scientists - amongst others A. E. Jensen, Eike Haberland and Ulrich Braukämper - centred on the regions of Konso, South Omo, Sidamo, Wolayta, Dizi and Hadiya.

In addition to the enormous amount of ethnographic material that was collected back then 15,000 photos were taken from the 1930s to the mid-1970s. This photographic documentation reveals the very special interest in Southern Ethiopia.

The photographs are available via the image database.