The Gradute, Research and Community Services of the Faculty of Social Sciences Cordially Invites you to attend a seminar on "GUZO NORTH: The Search for the Origin of Ethiopian Music (2016)"
Presenter: Dr. Getie Gelaye, Hamburg University, Germany
Dr. Getie Gelaye is currently a faculty member at the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany, where he has obtained his PhD. He is a professor of Amharic and courses on African Oral Literature. He has studied Ethiopian Languages and Literature (BA, 1988), and Social Anthropology (MA, 1994) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, where he also taught folklore and oral literature for over 7 years (1998-1995) as a faculty. He has been researching and doing his doctoral studies at the University of Hamburg (1996-2000) on the collection, classification, analysis and documentation of the various genres of Amharic oral poetry. He has also carried out anthropological field research in 1992/93; and in 1997/98, 2000 and worked on the social, political, literary and folkloric analysis of the major poetic traditions of the rural people in Gojjam, Ethiopia. He has published several articles and chapters on the role and functions of Amharic oral poetry in the lives of the rural poples in Ethiopia. His area of resaerch focuses on literary and socio-cultural heritage and history of Northeast Africa, analyzing Ethiopian literary and poetic genres, resistance poetry, applied folklore and tourism, culture and development, promotion of African indigenous knowledge and oral heritage, multicultural and multilingual education, cultural diversity and creativity, migration and integration in Europe.
Date: Friday, 20th September 2019
Venue: old senate hall
Time: 3:30 local time
