Beyond InfluenceThe Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity

BeInf PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King” for the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto on 3. December 2025.

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the workshop "Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages",  hosted on 18 November at the University of Cologne. She will present a paper on the topic "Three Heavens, or Seven? Views on...

Dr Lasse Løvlund Toft, a post-doc at the University of Oslo, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 3-7 November 2025.

BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller appears as an expert on NDR's radio program "vertikal horizontal. Glaubens- und Gewissensfragen" on Sunday, September 14. She presents her work on an Ethiopian creation text, called Aksimaros, in a...

11 September 2025

BeInf team member Ted Erho presents “Escaping Death: The Tale of the Egyptian Brothers Jannes and Jambres” at the conference “Romance on the Nile: The Ancient Novel in Egypt – Egypt in the Ancient Novel” in Berlin on...

Dr Maria Bulakh, associate professor at HSE University, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 5-9 May 2025.