News and updates4 September 2023|EventsSummer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript StudiesThe seventh Summer School in Manuscript Studies will take place online from 4 to 15 September 2023. The Summer School is carried out by several Hamburg-based projects and with the generous support of the VolkswagenStiftung, the Academy of...5 July 2023|JohnNikiuBetween Egypt and EthiopiaOn 5 July 2023, Daria Elagina speaks on "Between Egypt and Ethiopia: The Chronicle of John of Nikiu" at the International Medieval Congress 2023 in Leeds (3-6 July 2023). 3 July 2023|sarsadengelInternational Medieval Congress LeedsOn 3 July 2023 Solomon Gebreyes Beyene organizes a session on "Medieval African Entanglements, I: Art Histories in the Age of the 'Global Middle Ages'" and chairs a session on "Medieval African Entanglements, III: Reconstructing Islamicate...29 June 2023|sarsadengelEthiopic Historiographical TextsEthiopic Historiographical Texts: Editing and Translating, and Textual and Historical Analysis Hamburg, HLCEES, 29-30 June 2023 The workshop, organized by the DFG Project no. 445841073 "The Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (r.1563‒1597): A...23 June 2023|ITIESEThe ›Life of Susanna‹ in the Light of the Beta Israel Manuscript TraditionOn 23 June 2023, Sophia Dege-Müller presents at the International Conference »Interreligious Appropriations: Modes and Practices of Coping with Religious Diversity in the Global History of Christianity« (Leibnitz Institute of European...9 June 2023|JohnNikiuDigital edition of the Chronicle of John of NikiuOn 9 June 2023, Daria Elagina speaks on "Digital edition of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu as a research tool" at the conference "Historiography at the End of Antiquity – Concepts, Audiences, and Regionality in the Broader Eastern...5 June 2023|JohnNikiuSociety of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) 26th Biennal MeetingOn 5 June 2023, Dorota Dzierzbicka (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw) and Daria Elagina (via Zoom) present on "Stranded in Dongola, Sudan. A 16th-century account of the Ethiopian monk Takla Alfa...31 May 2023|sarsadengelChronicle of King Śarḍa DǝngǝlOn 31 May 2023 Solomon Gebreyes Beyene talks on "Chronicle of King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (1563–1597): Source, Authorship and Censorship" within the framework of the Forschungskolloquium at the Asien-Afrika-Instutut, Universiät Hamburg23 May 2023|HLCEESEthiopians abroad in the Middle AgesAlessandro Bausi presents on "Lost (and Found) in Egypt and the East: The contribution to Ethiopian Studies of Johann Michael Wansleben" at the International Conference "Ethiopians abroad in the Middle Ages", hosted on 23-26 May in Rome by...Archive of current news
