Daniel Meseret Asmare

Ø  Full Name: Daniel Meseret Asmare

Ø  Academic rank: Lecturer

Ø  Department:  History and Heritage Management

Ø  Email: goldendan75@yahoo.com/danzlost@gmail.com

Ø  Mobile: (+251) 934642076

Education/ Training (Certified):

Ø  Sept. /Oct. 2017 HiobLudolf Centre Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies, Hamburg, Germany.

Ø  March, 2016Training in Professional Digitization by the International Institute of Social History

Ø  2009 - 2011     MA in Comparative History and Medieval Studies, Central European

Ø  University, Budapest, Hungary. Thesis: The Melting Pot of the Word and the Sword: Royal Power and Monastic Asceticism in the Medieval Monasteries of Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Ø  2004 -2007B. Ed. In History, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Teaching/Work Experience:

Ø  March 2015 -April 2016 Digitization project of Bahir Dar Textile Factory workers’ files                  coordinated by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) of Amsterdam

Ø  2015-2016     Member of the organizing committee of the Second and Third National SocialScience  Conferences

Ø  2015-2016    Member of the organizing committee of the Second and Third June HistoryNational  Seminars

Ø  2011-2012Department Head of History and Heritage Management Department

Ø  Since 2006   Lecturer, Department of History and Heritage Management

Ø  Teaching Mainstream History Courses( Ancient to contemporary Ethiopia, African and World,  Art and religious history of Ethiopia, and Historiography and Research Method course

Conference Papers:

·         Sep. 2016        Poster presentation on: HiobLudolf Centre Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies (Hamburg University): “The Motif of the King of Ethiopia inMedieval Apocalyptic Traditions”

·         23 Mar. 2016 Conference on the 120^th Anniversary of Adwa (Bahir Dar University): “Discourses on the Battle of Adwa and the Image of Ethiopia thereof”

·         13 June 2014 Short Paper on "History and Postmodernism," Bahir Dar University, Methodological Seminar organized by the Blue Nile Book Club (BNBC), Bahir Dar

·         16 May 2013 Paper on “The Turbaned healers: the Dynamics of the Dabtara practices of Magic, Medicine, And Religion “Social Science Weekly Seminar,BDU.

Research Interests

·         Medieval and Early Modern Ethiopian political and socio-cultural History, Ethiopian Art History, Ethiopian Manuscript studies, History of Ideas.

Membership:

·         2014-18Member and Chairperson of BNBC (Blue Nile Book Club, Faculty of Social Science, Bahir DarUniversity)

Scholarships:

·         Sept./Oct.2016   HiobLudolf Centre Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies full accommodation, Hamburg University.

·         2009 2011Central European University Scholarship, Budapest, Hunagry