History 

​ ​ ​ ​ ​The history of the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES) indicates that the 1 st

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ICES was held in Rome (Italy) in 1959. Ethiopia organized it for the first time when the 3 rd ICES

​ ​ ​ ​ ​was held in Addis Ababa in 1966. From the past 21 conferences of the ICES, eight of them were

​ ​ ​ ​ ​held in Ethiopia (the 3rd , 8th , 11th , 14th , 17th , 18th , 20th , and 21st ), while the rest were organized by

​ ​ ​ ​ ​Italy, England, USA, France, Israel, Sweden, the USSR (Russia), Japan, Germany, Norway, and

​ ​ ​ ​ ​Poland. Among these, Italy, France and the USA organized it twice.

[ICES1]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies One

   Rome, Italy (Accademia dei Lincei)   1959

[ICES2]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Two

   Manchester, UK (Manchester University)    1963

[ICES3]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Three

   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellasie I University)   1996

[ICES4]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Four

   Rome, Italy (Accademia dei Lincei)   1972

[ICES5A]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Five A

   Nice, France (Association francaise pour la recherche scientifique en Afrique de l’Est / ARESAE)   1977

[ICES5B]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Five B

   Chicago, USA (University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois)    1978

[ICES6]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Six

   Tel Aviv, Israel (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities)   1980

[ICES7]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Seven

   Lund, Sweden (Lund University and the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries)   1982

[ICES8]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Eight

   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University)   1984

[ICES9]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Nine

   Moscow, USSR (Asia and Africa Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences)   1986

[ICES10]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Ten

  Paris, France (Societe francaise pour les etudes ethiopiennes)  1988

[ICES11]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Eleven

      Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University)   1991

[ICES12]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Twelve

   East Lansing, Michigan, USA (Michigan State University)   1994

[ICES13]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Thirteen 

   Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto University)   1997

[ICES14]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Fourteen

   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University)   2000

[ICES15]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Fifteen

   Hamburg, Germany (Asia-Africa-Institute, Hamburg University)   2003

[ICES16]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Sixteen

   Trondheim, Norway (Trondheim University)   2007

[ICES17]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Seventeen

   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University)    2009

[ICES18]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Eighteen 

   Dirre Dawa, Ethiopia (French Centre of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa & Institute of Ethiopian Studies, in coop. with Dirre Dawa University)   2012

[ICES19]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Nineteen

   Warsaw, Poland (Department of African Languages and Cultures, Warsaw University)   2015

[ICES20]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Twenty 

   Mekelle, Ethiopia (Mekelle University)   2018

[ICES21]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Twenty One

   Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University)   2020

[ICES22]International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Twenty Two

  Hawassa, Ethiopia (Hawassa University)   2025