Beyond InfluenceThe Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity

Carolin Schäfer, a specialist of Ethiopian and Eritrean art who recently defended her PhD on “Sacred Images from Ethiopia. Intercultural Workshops and the Cooperation of Artists from Ethiopia, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Indian...

Aaron Butts delivers lecture at Late Antique Seminar in Warsaw University on "The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians".

Here the program of the seminar series.

BeInf PI Aaron Butts appears in the podcast “Byzantium & Friends” in an episode on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King.”

The podcast is available on PodBean, tune in here.

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the  "TANA-Treffen 2025 Hamburg",  of the Deutsche Archäologische Institut. On Decmber 3 she will present the ongoing research on the Beta Israel: Archäologische Arbeiten zu den äthiopischen Juden, den...

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...