The Programme for the Tenth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies held at the Palais de l'UNESCO, Paris from 23-26 August 1988, along with some abstracts and papers from the Conference. Some of these exist as individual items, others have been stapled together to create books of abstracts.

Programme for the "Xème Conference Internationale des Etudes Ethiopiennes" held at the Palais de l'UNESCO, Paris, from 23-26 August 1988. The programme lists the organising Committee, the daily itinerary, and the speakers and the titles of their papers at each of the sessions. There are some handwritten annotations.

Book of Abstracts from Papers Given at the Conference. These are:

• "Two Fragments of Ethiopian Church History" by Abba Ayelé Teklehaymanot
• "The cannibalist discourse in Me'en society, Southwest Ethiopia" by J. Abbink
• "The Dilemma of Arssi Balabbats: A Critical Study of Socio-economic position of Local Chiefs, 1836-1974" by Abas Haji
• "A Preview of Ethiopian Customary Law: The Application, Codification and Unity in Diversity" by Aberra Jembere
• "Anglo-Italian Conflicting Interests in The Lake Tana Region 1913-1935" by Abdussamad H. Ahmad
• "Sheko Phonology and Morphophonemics" by Aklilu Yilma
• "The Use of Food Aid and its Implications for Agricultural Production in Ethiopia" by Alemayehu Lirenso
• "Morphological features of two Oromo dialects: Harer and Wellaga" by Mohammed Ali
• "Compensating for the natural ecosystem: intensified agriculture (Southwest Ethiopia)" by Hermann Amborn
• "Axoum du Premier au Troisième Siècle: Les témoignages matérials" by Francis Anfray
• "Quelques Remarques sur la Morphologie du Verbe en Amharique" by Jean-Pierre Angoujard
• "Agricultural Price Policy in Ethiopia" by A. Aseffa
• "Regional Variation in Fertility, Mortality and Population Growth in Ethiopia 1970-81" by Asmerom Kidane
• "A Social Profile of Gondar Town in the Early twentieth Century" by Bahru Zewde
• "The Critical Edition of the Ethiopic Senodos: Some preliminary remarks" by Alessandro Bausi
• "Focus in Oromo" by Baye Yimam
• "Un procès en recherche de paternité" by Berhanou Abbebé
• "La système verbal de l'amharique" by Fernand Bentolila and Frew Shimelis
• "Coalition Politics and the Royal Office in Mid-18th Century Gondar" by LaVerle Berry
• "Problems in Axumite chronology" by Francois de Blois
• "Across the Great Divide: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations in the Afar Rift and Adjacent Highlands of Ethiopia" by Steven A. Brandt
• "Agrarian Development Policy and Foreign Aid: The Ethiopian Experience" by Dr Stefan Brüne
• "L'énigme de la 75° Nationalité" by J. Bureau
• "Le Kebra Nagast et les Révélations du Pseudo-Méthode" by André Caquot
• "Les Industries Paleolithiques du Lac Langano Premier Aperçu Stratigraphique et Typologique" by Jean Chavaillon, Kassaye Begaschaw, Arlette Berthelet, Tamrat Wodajo and Zelalem Assefa
• "Groupes Patrilineaires et Territoriaux Chez Les °Afar" by Eduoard Chedeville
• "Les Trois Hebreux dans la Fournaise: Une enquete iconographique dans la peinture éthiopienne" by S. Chojnacki
• "Un ancien ensemble religieux islamique à Massaoua: la mosquée de Sayh Hammali" by Frederico Cresti
• "Political measures Taken by the Ethiopian Revolution to Resolve the Conflict in Eritrea" by Daniel Ghebrekidan
• "The Lands of the Church of Däbrä S'ähay Qʷesqʷam, Gondar" by Donald Crummey and Saumet Sishague
• "Rural Women and Household Labour Use Patterns in Ethiopia: A Review of Some Evidences" by Dejene Aredo
• "Addis-Abbaba master Plant 1983-1985: A Labour Demand Allocation Model for the Central Planning Region" by Francesco Gosen and Domenico Patassini
• "The History and Problems of Bridges in Ethiopia" by Dellelegne Teshome
• "Cases before the Emperors" by Franz Amadeus Dombrowski
• "The Jews of Ethiopia: Extinction or Rejuvenation?" by Jack Yair Edelstein
• "Ethiopia, Egypt and the Mahdiyya - Survialism in facing the West" by Professor Haggai Erlich

Book of Abstracts from Papers at the Conference. These are:

• "Ethiopia's Balance of Payments 1975-1985" by Eshetu Chole
• "Food and Development in Ethiopia: Retrospect and Prospect" by Fassil G. Kiros
• "The Development of Peasant Producers' Cooperatives in Post-Revolutionay Ethiopia: Some Problems and Prospects" by Fassil Teffara
• "The Contribution of the Recent Field Work at Kassala (Eastern Sudan) to Ethiopian Archaeology" by Rodolfo Fattovich
• "Taphonomie et archézoologie du site oldowayen de Gomboré I B à Melka Kunturé, Ethiopie Etude préliminaire" by Martine Faure
• "The Pastoral Nomads of Ethiopia and their Development Prospects" by Fedadu Gadamu
• "Aspects of literary production, distribution and consumption in Ethiopia before 1974" by Fedake Azeze
• "Groupes Geographiques et Groupes Tribaux Patrilineaires chex les °Afar" by Robert Ferry
• "Mashafa Haywet and Mangada Samāy: D'après onze manuscrits inédits" by Luigi Fusella
• "The Qemant Domestic Cycle, Ambilineality, and Time" by Frederick C. Gamst
• "Control of Media and Concept of Image by Haile Selassie I" by John Gartley
• "Diviser pour régner: les vicissitudes du découpage administratif de l'Ethiopie depuis la Guerre, étude géographique" by Alain Gascon
• "Titre: On Ethiopian Women and Feminism" by Ghenet Girma
• "'Oneself', 'One's Own' and 'One Another' in Amharic" by Gideon Goldenberg
• "Social Ministry of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Past and the Present" by Ahuha Bishop Gorgorewo
• "Biographie Resumée d'Eloi Pino (1845-1907)" by Roger Grau
• "A Proposal for a Typological Characterization of Semitic Languages" by Y. Gruntfest
• "Le genre Ceratotherium (Mammalia, Rhincerotidae) dans le Pliio-Pléistocène d'Ethiopie et son évolution en Afrique" by Claude Guérin
• "Builders of Churches and Authors of Hymns: Makers of Ethiopian Church History" by Getatchew Haile
• "Commercial Farming Initiatives in Italian East Africa (Ethiopia), 1936-1941" by Larebo Haile
• "Against an Initial WH Filter in Amharic" by Girma Halefom
• "Revolution and the History of the Ethiopian State" by John W. Harbeson
• "Notes on the Ge'ez text of IV Ezra" by Walter Harrelson
• "Early Byzantine Sculptural Fragments from Adulis" by Marilyn E. Heldman
• "Ethiopia's Economic Prospects for the 1990s" by Paul B. Henze
• "Erste Informationen über die Kirche Athiopens im reformatorischen Deutschland" by Friedrich Heyer
• "Ethiopian Slavery and British Abolitionism: The View from the American Legation 1920-1935" by Dennis Hickey
• "L'Ethiopie de G. Gastaldi" by Bertrand Hirsch
• "Grande Somalie/Grande Ethiopie: Aspects parallèles, contradictoires et complémentaires des deux nations" by M. Jean Honnorat
• "The Life and Career of Shykh Talha B. Ja'far (c.1853-1934)" by Hussein Ahmed
• "Ethiopian Immigration Law On The Exclusion and Deportation of Foreign Nationals" by Ibrahim Idris
• "A History of Joseph" by E. Isaac
• "'Melody Types' and 'Formulas' in Ethiopian Chant: The Manuscript Evidence (13th-20th Centuries)" by Peter Jeffery
• "L'Art Rupestre de Djibouti dans son Contexte Est-Africain" by Roger Joussaume
• "Syntax and the history of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia" by Olga Kapeliuk
• "Falasha Religion: Ancient Judaism or Evolving Ethiopian tradition" by Steven Kaplan
• "Archaeological Research in Ethiopia: Progress and Current Situation" by Kassaye Begashaw
• "Some Issues in the Pronominal System in Adere" by Girmay Berhane
• "Using Modern Sources to Achieve Historical Reconstruction in the Study of Ethiopian Christian Chant" by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
• "The Customary Law Codes of Hamasen" by Friederike Kemink
• "Contemporary Ethiopian Woodcuts in Social Context" by Professor Wendy Kindred
• "La Theologie au Service de la Rebellion" by Manfred Kopp
• "Les stéphanites à la lumière des actes d'Isaie de Gunda-Gundē" by Stanislaw Kur
• "Education in People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Laying the Foundation for a Socialist Educational System" by Legesse Lemma
• "Les 'Ensablés': Fascistes Oubliés d'Ethiopie" by Fabienne le Houerou
• "Publication Cooperation Internationale d'un Catalogue des Anciens Manuscrits Ethiopiens à Miniatures" by Claude Lepage
• "Birth of a vernacular literature" by Wolf Leslau
• "Social Gatherings among the Shoa Oromo" by Herbert S. Lewis
• "Problemes du Mouvement Eustathien" by Gianfrancesco Lusini
• "Bridewealth, marriage and kinship in Hamar" by Jean Lydall
• "Social and Cultural Impact of Resettlement: The Case of Potters in the Beles Valley" by Loredana Magni and Stefano Berterame
• "The Ethiopian Manuscripts Marginalia" by Joanna Mantel-Niécko
• "Le Refus de l'Independance à Sagueneiti dans l'Erythrée des Années 40" by Roland Marchal
• "Haile Sellassie and Development, 1916-1960" by Harold G. Marcus
• "Abscence et Utilisation des Images. A Propos de Quatre Evenements Majeurs de l'Histoire Recente de l'Ethiopie" by Francois Margolin
• "Le gadla Yemrehanna Krestos: aperçu préliminaire" by Paolo Marrassini