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

"Primary and Secondary Sources for Ethiopian Historiography: The Case of Slavery and Slave-Trade in Ethiopia" by E. von Donzel. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.

"Typology of Ethiopian Feudalism" by Yu. M. Kobishchanov. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.

"Le Gadla Yemrehanna Krestos: aperçu préliminaire" by Paolo Marrassini. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.

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

• "An Analysis of the Extent of the Spatial Spread of Electrification in Ethiopia and Prospects for Further Development" by Mekete Belachew
• "The Ideal Typical Model of Transport Evolutions and the Development of the Ethiopian Road Transport Network: A Comparitive Analysis" by Makonnen Tesfahunegu
• "The Wall of Harar" by Mengistu Asfaw "La Reve Initiatique d'un Medicin Traditionnel: De Deux Facons de Precher" by J. Mercier
• "History of Botanical Explorations in Ethiopia" by Mesfin Tadesse
• "Regional Political Organization in the Axum - Yeha Area during the Axumite Era" by Joseph W. Michels
• "Des composés expressifs en couchitique oriental" by Didier Morin
• "Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of terminology of Hierarchical Relationship (kinship and other relations in Oromo)" by Mulugeta Eteffa
• "The British Institute in Eastern Africa's Excavations at Aksum, Northern Ethiopia" by Stuart Munro-Hay
• "Liability for the Acts of Minors under Ethiopian Law" by Negatu Tesfaye
• "Oral Skills and Knowledge of Languages, A Resource in Development" by Birgit Negussie
• "Responses to resettlement: Household, Marriage and Divorce" by Alula Pankhurst
• "Emperor Tewodros II and the Battle of Maqdala (1868) as Depicted in Ethiopian Popular Art" by Richard Pankhurst
• "Addis-Abbaba Master Plant 1983-1985: A Labour Demand Allocation Model for the Central Planning Region" by Francesco Gosen and Domenico Patassini
• "Alternatives in Rural Development in Ethiopia" by Siegfried Pausewang
• "Les Montales Ethiopiennes à Jerusalem" by Kirsten Pedersen
• "Le Francais qui devint l'un des deux plus grande saints de l'Ethiopie (1190-1220)" by S. Pierre Petrides
• "Why Plant Trees? - Tree Planting and Household Budgets" by Eva Poluha
• "Ethiopia: a dramatic country" by Chris Prouty Rosenfeld
• "Cout Financier et Cout Sociaux de la Politique des Transferts de Population" by Gérard Prunier
• "Semitic South-Ethiopic: The definite future revisited" by S. Raz
• "Soviet Policy towards Ethiopia since Gorbachev" by R.B. Remnek
• "Some remarks on translating into Amharic" by Lanfranco Ricci
• "On Language Use in a Resettlement Area (The Case Study of Pawe)" by Renate Richter
• "A Propos d'une Oeuvre Mineure d'Afa-Warq Gabra-Iyasus" by Alain Rouaud
• "Genius as Madness: Sayyid Muhammad of Somalia and Negus Tewodros of Ethiopia in Comparative Perspective" by Said S. Samatar
• "Recherches pour le Musée de l'Institut des Etudes Ethiopiennes" by Anne Saurat
• "The Seventh-day Adventist Mission in Ethiopia: 1906-1940 A Preliminary Report" by Alberto Sbacchi
• "L'épigraphie aksoumite du Ier au IIIe siècle" by Roger Schneider
• "The Impact of Legislation on the Development of Modern Education in Ethiopia" by Seyoum Teferra
• "Tinkerers and Strangers in Ethiopian Political History" by William A. Shack
• "The People of Dire Dawa: Towards a Social History (1902-1936)" by Shiferaw Bekele
• "The Rastafarians: Their Relationship with Ethiopia" by Norman J. Singer
• "The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Yesterday and Today" by L.B. Solomon and G. Sellassie
• "Recent Changes in the Pattern of Domestic Migration to Addis Ababa" by Solomon Mulugeta
• "Do the Hamar have a Concept of Honour?" by Ivo Strecker
• "Terms of Endearment in Amharic: Their Morphological Structures and Sociolinguistic Norms" by Taddese Beyene
• "Ethnic Interaction and Integration in Ethiopian History: The Case of the Gāfāt" by Taddesse Tamrat
• "The Use of Dreams in Amharic Prose Fiction" by Taye Assefa
• "La première description de l'Ethiopie imprimée en Occident" by Salvatore Tedeschi
• "The Generation and Dissemination of Agricultural Technology in Ethiopia" by Tennassie Nichola
• "L'Influence du Roi David et son Psautier Ethiopie" by Tekle-Tsadik Mekouria
• "The Process of Urbanization in Wellegga, Western Ethiopia: the Case of Nekemte" by Tesemma Ta'a
• "Tradition and Change: The Study of the Economic Anthropology of Traditional Ari's Voluntary Labour Organizations (Southwest Ethiopia)" by Tesfa Mekonnen
• "The Patterns and Problems of Work Trips in Addis Ababa" by Tesfaye Taffesse
• "The Role of the 'Derg' (PMAC) In consolidating The Revolutionary Process In Ethiopia (1974-1987)" by Teshome Kebede
• "The Challenge of Resocializing Ethiopian Jews in Israel: A Field Study" by Professor Teshome G. Wagaw
• "The Reopening of the Ogaden: A Cursory View of the History of NAFTANA" by Tibebe Eshete
• "Word Accent in Amharic: A Psycho-acoustic Experimental Study" by Tsegaye Woldeyesus
• "The Heroic Defence of Ethiopia Against Somali Aggression (July 1977-March 1978)" by Tzeggae Tecle
• "The Last Chapter of Acta in the Ethiopic Version" by Siegbert Uhlig
• "Primary and secondary sources for Ethiopian historiography: the case of slavery and slave-trade in Ethiopia" by E. van Donzel
• "Social position of a writer in a developing society (with special reference to Ethiopia)" by Michael Volpe
• "Tone Languages of Ethiopia: An Update with typological notes" by Klaus Wedekind
• "Gradual Completion of Thoughts while speaking and Notional Units in H.E. Cushitic Narratives" by Klaus Wedekind
• "Community Participation in Education for Development in Ethiopia" by Zaudneh Yimtatu

Abstract for "Ha-Hu Bekelalu (A new and innovative method of teaching the Ethiopian Alphabet)" by Terrefe Ras-Work.

"Les stéphanites à la lumière des Actes d'Isaie de Gunda-Gundē" by Stanislaw Kur. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.

"Ethnic Interaction and Integration in Ethiopian History: The Case of the Gāfāt" by Taddesse Tamrat. Text of a Paper delivered at the Conference.