Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies

Prof. Alessandro Bausi will, together with Dr. Jacopo Gnisci of the University College London, co-direct a 3-year DFG-AHRC project Demarginalizing Medieval Africa: Images, Texts, and Identity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527)...

We have been following the reports on the military conflict that has erupted between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Regional Government of Tigray with great concern. In addition to continuing reports of the heavy toll that the...

Susanne Hummel (HLCEES) will give a talk within the TeTra Research Seminar (KU Leuven) on November 26, 2020, 10 am CET on 

The birth of an Ethiopic hagiographic text and its reception: The case of the Gadla Śarṣ́a Ṗeṭros

Abstract: Even...

In September 2020, the DFG has approved a new 3-year postdoc project "The Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (r.1563‒1597): A Critical Edition with annotated English Translation" to Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene.

The project shall be conducted at...

On 6 October 2020, Magdalena Krzyżanowska of HLCEES successfully defended her PhD thesis on Epistemic Modality in Amharic at Poznan University.

The workshop Computer linguistics in Gəʿəz studies: the GeTa tool had to be cancelled for technical reasons.