In Ethiopia, activities of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) during the late Imperial period are usually associated with sports and public lectures. This perception obscures the fact that since the early 1950s, the YMCA’s work revolved around the transformation of boys and young men into...

The Stadium and the City: Sports infrastructure in late imperial Ethiopia and beyond

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Katrin Bromber (1 déc. 2016)

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The inauguration of the Haile Selassie I Stadium in Addis Ababa in 1947 marked the beginning of the construction of stadiums in Ethiopia. They became important signifiers of accelerated modernisation after the end of the Italian occupation (1935-1941). Quite similar to developments elsewhere, open f...

Publication: Annales d'Éthiopie n°32 (2018-2019)

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stagiaire (20 nov. 2019)

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ANNALES D'ÉTHIOPIE Vol. 32, années 2018-2019 TABLE DES MATIÈRES/TABLE OF CONTENTS CITADINITÉ DANS LES VILLES DE LA CORNE DE L’AFRIQUE/URBAN CITIZENSHIP IN THE HORN OF AFRICA Citadinités dans les villes de la Corne de l’Afrique Bzunesh Tamru, Amina Saïd Chiré Make Them Better Citizens: YMCA Training...

Book Review: The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories

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Forum Transregionale Studien (29 janv. 2019)

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By Nazan Maksudyan Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau, Anorthe Wetzel (eds.), The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories (Frankfurt: Campus, 2018). British futurist writer, and a well-known pacifist, H.G. Wells wrote in an article titled “The War That Will En...

Book Review: Remembering Independence

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Editorial Board (18 oct. 2018)

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By Katrin Bromber, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Lentz, Carola; Lowe, David: Remembering Independence (Remembering the Modern World, vol. 6), London, New York: Routledge 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-90573-3, pp. 244. Remembering independence is a contested field. It influences current debates about the pa...

Conférence : Katrin Bromber (ZMO), "‘They Thought that We Were Criminals‘: Sports and Urban Marginality in Addis Ababa, 1920s to 1970s" — ZMO, Berlin, 17h, 26/01/2015

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (20 janv. 2015)

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International Workshop: "Big Dams: Investigating their Temporal and Spatial Politics in Africa, the Mid-dle East, and Asia", Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 1-2 June 2012

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colonialcorpus (29 mai 2012)

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The workshop is organized by Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange and Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, ZMO. Detailed program at http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2012/Big_Dams_2012.pdf