Forschungskolloquium Äthiopistik & Afrikanistik SoSe 2020
Mittwoch/Wednesday, 18-20.00
via Zoom (Teilnahme-Anfrage für Interessenten bitte an/ if you are interested to participate at one of the Zoom presentations, please don't hesiate to send your request to: Henning.Schreiber"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Das Programm wird laufend aktualisiert / the program will be updated regularly.
13.05.2020 |
Alessandr Bausi "Däbrä Dammo”, not “Däbrä Damo"The historical place-name of one of most famous monasteries of Ethiopia in northern Tǝgray has a split tradition of transcription, since it is widely known under the two non-matching forms of “Däbrä Damo” and “Däbrä Dammo”, only distinguished by the opposition of gemination vs non-gemination. Researches in the past and recent interviews on the spot provide clear evidence, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the form used by the local Tǝgrǝñña speakers was and still is the geminated “Däbrä Dammo”. In a region that is the geographical heart of the Tǝgrǝñña-speakers area, this form is the authentic form of the place name. Yet, the question arises why a competing Amharic-speaking ecclesiastic tradition, largely accepted, not always wittingly though, also in scholarly contexts, supports the non-geminated form. |
20.05.2020 |
Pius W. Akumbu "The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Babanki" |
10.06.2020 |
Sophia Dege & Bar Kribus (Bochum University) https://www.jewseast.org/horn-of-africa "St. Yared in the Semien Mountains - comparing the Christian and the Beta Esrael veneration"St. Yared is one of the most renowned local saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He traditionally lived during the reign of the sixth-century Ethiopian monarch Gäbrä Mäsqäl and is credited with the composition of numerous elements of Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical music and hymns. The Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews) identify this holy man as a member of the Betä Ǝsraʾel community. According to both the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Betä Ǝsraʾel religious tradition, he spent the last years of his life in (or near) the Sǝmen Mountains. These mountains were, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, partially governed by Betä Ǝsraʾel rulers, and the site of wars waged between the Betä Ǝsraʾel and the Christian Ethiopian Solomonic kingdom. Various sites in these mountains are associated with St. Yared. |
24.06.2020 |
Eliana Dal Sasso (Cluster of Execellence Understanding Written Artefacts (UWA): E9; Universität Hamburg) "Bookbindings as Archival Instruments: Defining, Ordering and Transmitting Knowledge in Christian Egypt (4th-11th centuries)" Bindings capture the onlookers’ gaze, inspiring religious veneration, esthetical admiration and manifesting the purpose for which the manuscript has been created. Hence, the materials and the techniques adopted in bookbinding manufacture bear witness not only to the craftsmanship but also to the prestige of a manuscript, to its use and to the context in which it has been produced or transformed. Therefore, apart from protecting the leaves, bindings are used to define, organise and transmit a specific knowledge. Furthermore, this archival function dynamically changes as the binding is modified in order to adapt to the events which are stratified during the life of a complex object such as the manuscript. |
1.07.2020 |
Dorothea Reule "The Textual History of the Ethiopic Synaxarion" The Ethiopic Synaxarion is a liturgical work widely attested in manuscripts and used until today by the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Church. It was translated probably at least twice from two different Arabic Vorlagen in the 14th century, and has been intensively edited in the next centuries by adding content and linguistic editing. Only one of both translations has been edited. |
11.07.2020 |
Janina Dräger "Documentation of Ubi (East Chadic)" |
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