News and updates28 April 2025|BeInf NewsKeynote at Late Antique Conference in GhentAaron Butts will deliver the opening keynote lecture at the international conference “Real and Imagined Boundaries in Late Antiquity” at the University of Ghent on 28 April 2025.9 December 2024|BeInf NewsLecture on Ethiopic Literature from Late AntiquityAaron Butts will give a lecture entitled “Late Antique Ethiopic Literature: Challenges and Prospectives” at the workshop Literary Beginnings in Late Antiquity at All Souls College, Oxford University, on 9 December 2024.5 December 2024|HLCEESHertie School TalkOn 5 December 2024 Jun.-Prof. Hewan Semon Marye gives a talk about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.2 December 2024|HLCEESTEI XML in Ethiopic (and not only) manuscript (and not only) studiesHLCEES workshop29 November 2024|HLCEESPhD defence Eliana Dal SassoOn Friday 29 November 2024, 10 am, Eliana Dal Sasso defends her dissertation ‘Late Antique and Mediaeval Egyptian Bindings as Archival Instruments: Defining, Ordering and Transmitting Knowledge in Egypt’. See also...28 November 2024|JohnNikiuThe Reception of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu in Ethiopia and EritreaOn 28 November, at 10 AM, Daria Elagina speaks at the TeTra seminar (Leuven) on "The Reception of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu in Ethiopia and Eritrea". 24 November 2024|BeInf NewsTed Erho delivers Lectures at SBL24 November 2024 BeInf team member Ted Erho delivers two lectures at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in San Diego over 23-26 November 2024: “Changes in Ethiopic Manuscript Production in the Sixteenth Century”...21 November 2024|BeInf NewsLectures at Workshop on Cataloguing Ethiopic Manuscripts in Naples, Italy21 November 2024 BeInf team members take part in the workshop “Cataloguing Practices in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies” at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” on 21-22 November 2024. Sophia Dege-Müller gives a lecture “Towards...19 November 2024|HLCEESUnspoken Rebellion on the Red SeaGiulia Casella speaks on "Unspoken Rebellion on the Red Sea: The Case of Kāleb and Abraha in the Sixth Century" within the framework of the lecture cycle "Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern...Archive of current news