Aaron Butts delivers lecture on “How to Delimit and Define a Text: Some Reflections from the BeInf Project (Syriac, Christian Arabic, Ethiopic)” at...

BeInf team member Jonas Karlsson delivers a lecture at the Cantus Planus 2026 conference, in Évora Portugal, September 3-7, 2026.

He talks on...

Dorothea Reule, Wissenschaftliche Assistentin für Semitistik at the Universität Heidelberg, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for 17 to 28...

Several BeInf team members deliver lectures at the 14th Symposium Syriacum / 12th Conference of Christian Arabic Studies in Bucharest, Romania, 3-7...

BeInf team members deliver lectures at the "The Righteous One Will Be Raised From His Sleep. Conference on Post-Mortem Existence in Honour of Prof...

June 25 & 26, 2026. Sophia Dege-Müller and Jonas Karlsson give a lecture on "Continuity and Innovation in the Ethiopic Tradition of the Psalms" during...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts will be a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton over 20-30 May. He is associated with the School of...

Ted Erho delivers a lecture at Warsaw University at the conference 75 Years of Ethiopian Studies in Warsaw. He will present on Ethiopic fragments of...

The volume Jonah in the Ethiopic Biblical Tradition by Jeremy Brown was recently published in the new series Ethiopic Bible and Related Literature at...

Grant from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO)

1 May 2026 

The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) has awarded a grant...

Anaïs Wion, a historian of Medieval Ethiopia, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 4-8 May 2026.

Carolin Schäfer, a specialist of Ethiopian and Eritrean art who recently defended her PhD on “Sacred Images from Ethiopia. Intercultural Workshops and...

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

Here the...

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...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the  "TANA-Treffen 2025 Hamburg",  of the Deutsche Archäologische Institut. On Decmber 3 she will present the...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King” for the Department of Near & Middle Eastern...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the workshop "Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages",  hosted on 18 November at the University...

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...