The 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies recently took place in Warsaw, 24 – 28th September. Mokoro Principal Consultant, Catherine Dom, and Sarah Vaughan led the Law, Politics and Society panel ‘State and Society: Changing systems, changing relationships in Ethiopia’ and Pip Bevan presented a paper entitled ‘Evolving relations between the State and rural societies in Ethiopia since the later 19th century: similarities and differences in twenty exemplar places’.