Florian Wagner (Erfurt): Solomon Abraha (Mekelle): Questioning Humanitarian Reckoning with the Post-Cold War, Workshop Return Migration: Cold War the End of Liberal Internationalism, Repatriations in Ethiopia the Era of Strongman and the Horn of Africa: Changes, Continuities and Africa and the Global Cold War II Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle): Context 25–26 March 2019 | Mekelle University, Development Interventions in Adi-haqi Campus, Theater Hall Contact & Registration: [email protected] the Kobo-Alamata Valley: Comment: 1960s–2017 Christian Methfessel (Erfurt) Gereziher Haftu (Mekelle): 4:15–4:45 p.m. | Coffee Break Cold War Intervention and its Implication in the Militarization 4:45–5:30 p.m. | Concluding Remark of the Horn of Africa Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt) Sintayehu Kassaye (Mekelle) Comment: Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha) Peter Nadig (Mekelle) Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle) 1–2 p.m. | Lunch CONTACT AND REGISTRATION Aychegrew Hadera Hailu 2–4:15 p.m. | A New Cold War? Geopolitics email: [email protected] in the Horn Tesfahunegn Haile Mariam (Mekelle) and Mulubrhan Adane (Mekelle): The Cold War, oreignF Conference “Africa and the Global Intervention and its Cold War II” Consequences in the Horn Mekelle University, Adi-haqi Campus, of Africa Theater Hall, 25-26 March 2019 Organizers: Aychegrew Hadera Hailu Gebremedhin Gebremichael (Mekelle), Meressa Tsehaye Gebre- (Mekelle): wahd (Mekelle), Christian Methfessel Renewed Rivalry of Global and (Erfurt), Seife Hailu Gebreslassie Regional Powers in the Horn of (Mekelle) Africa Abrha Tesfay (Mekelle): The Rebirth of Cold War Era and Picture Credits: its Impact on the Destiny of Meeting in the Oval Office between Nixon and President Mobu- tu Sese Seku of Zaire, 10 October 1973, Nixon White House the Horn Photographs, RN-WHPO, 194548/Kightlinger, Jack E. PROGRAM Maximilian Vogel (Berlin): Ned Richardson-Little (Erfurt): Monday, 25 March Across the Iron Curtain: Africa and East Germany in 9–9:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction The Organizations of African Human Rights and Zenawi Zerihun (Mekelle) Students in the GDR as a Part of International Law: Intellectual Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha) Transnational Networks and Material Entanglements Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt) Comment: Comment: 9:30–10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha) Alexander Thumfart (Erfurt) 10:30–12 a.m. | Historiography 3:45–4:15 p.m. | Coffee Break Tuesday, 26 March Tewodros Hailemariam (Dilla): 9–10:45 a.m. | International Rivalries and Marxist Studies of Africa during 4:15–6:30 p.m. | The German Democratic the Horn of Africa the Global Cold War Republic and Africa Meressa Tsehaye (Mekelle): Iris Schröder (Erfurt/Gotha): Paul Sprute (Berlin) and Nation Building, Liberation Towards a New Historiography Maximilian Vogel (Berlin): Struggles and Role of External of Conflict: The Ethiopian Famine, Ideology and Practice Powers in the Horn of Africa: International Aid, Pictures Intertwined: Towards an The Case of Eritrea and Ethiopia and Publicity Integrated Understanding of Socialist ‘International Christian Methfessel (Erfurt): Comment: Solidarity’: The Case of the “The Russians are in a sense in Sintayehu Kassaye (Mekelle) GDR and Angola the right”: The United Kingdom and the Ogaden War, 1977–1978 12–1:30 p.m. | Lunch Paul Sprute (Berlin): Exercising ‘International Paul Skäbe (Erfurt): 1:30–3:45 p.m. | Cold War Diplomacy and African Solidarity’: The Brigade- Paul Henze’s Journeys in Internationalism tagebücher of the FDJ- Ethiopia and in Zbigniew Freundschaftsbrigaden in Brzezinski’s National Security Abraha Woldu (Bule Hora): Angola and the Experience of Council Venturing into African Young East Germans in the Nationalism: A Shift in Ethiopia’s Global Cold War Comment: Foreign Relations and Domestic Aychegrew Hadera (Mekelle) Scenes Franziska Rantzsch (Erfurt): The German Democratic 10:45–11 a.m. | Coffee Break Michael Pesek (Berlin): Republic, Cold War Rhetoric and African Perspectives on the “International Solidarity”: 11 a.m.–1 p.m. | The Cold War and the Horn: Cold War Media Depictions of the Social and Political Developments Ethiopian Famine (1984/85) in Thomas Spielbüchler (Linz): a Socialist State Dessalegn Bizuneh (Gonder): Conflict Management in Africa: The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, Historical Problems of a Cold War Rivalry and Aftereffects Forward-thinking Idea on the Growth of Matama.