News and updates12 September 2025|HLCEESDeutscher Orientalisten-TagDorothea Reule (Distinctive features of the two translations of the Ethiopic Synaxarion), Jonas Karlsson (Traces of matres lectionis in an Early Geez Manuscript), and Magdalena Krzyzanowska (Evolution of polyfunctionality in Amharic modals...10 July 2025|HLCEESDepiction of Space in Geʿez HagiographyOn 10 July 2025 Nafisa Valieva presents on Depiction of Space in Geʿez (Ethiopic) Hagiography at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.9 July 2025|HLCEESEthiopians at St. Catherine'sOn 9 July 2025, Denis Nosnitsin takes part in the international conference " Once, We Were Here: Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire", 8–10 July 2025, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, with the presentation "Ethiopians at...4 July 2025|HLCEESPhD defence Augustine DickinsonOn 4 July 2025 at 10 am Augustine Shawn Dickinson defends his PhD on Malkǝʾa Gubāʾe Manuscripts and the Development of Malkǝʾ Anthologies at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg. 3 July 2025|HLCEESPhD defence Dorothea ReuleOn 3 July 2025 Dorothea Reule defends her PhD dissertation on Übersetzung und frühe Überlieferung des äthiopischen Synaxars in Universität Marburg. 20 June 2025|HLCEESCANCELLED Public Lecture Haggai ErlichThe historian Prof. Emeritus Haggai Erlich of Tel Aviv University will be giving a public lecture at the University of Hamburg on 20 June 2025. The title of the lecture is: Ethiopia and the Middle East over the Last Century. The lecture...19 June 2025|HLCEESA multiplicity of converbs in AmharicOn 19 June 2025, Magdalena Krzyżanowska will present a talk on “A multiplicity of converbs in Amharic” at the 26th Afrikanist:innentag in Vienna. See: https://afrika.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/afrikanistinnentag-2025/13 June 2025|HLCEESLearning to writeOn 13 June 2015, Addisie Yalew talks at the workshop "Learning to Write" at CSMC (Hamburg) on "Scribes and Practices of Writing in Twenty-first Century Gondar Area, Ethiopia".13 June 2025|HLCEESÄthiopien im Wandel: Aktuelle Entwicklungen, Beziehungen und Zukunftsperspektiven13.06.2025, 14:00 Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Ost, 20146 Hamburg ESA O 221 Im Rahmen des Seminars "57-660 Projektentwicklung oder Entwicklungsprojekt? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in Afrika am Beispiel erneuerbarer...Archive of current news