News

Aaron Butts will give a lecture entitled “Late Antique Ethiopic Literature: Challenges and Prospectives” at the workshop Literary Beginnings in Late...

On 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...

HLCEES workshop

On Friday 29 November 2024, 10 am, Eliana Dal Sasso defends her dissertation ‘Late Antique and Mediaeval Egyptian Bindings as Archival Instruments...

On 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...

24 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...

21 November 2024

BeInf team members take part in the workshop “Cataloguing Practices in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies” at the University...

Giulia 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...

15 November 2024

BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller was mentioned in a story on the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) in Haaretz. The story discusses...

The following volume, co-edited by Aaron Butts (PI of BeInf), was recently published: Narsai: The Homilies, vol. 1 (Eastern Christian Texts in...

The PhD dissertation by Jonas Karlsson (HLCEES), The Diachronic Development of the Dǝggʷā: A Study of Texts and Manuscripts of Selected Ethiopic...

Nesina Grütter, SNF Starting Grant Professor at Université de Fribourg, visits the BeInf project for a short visit. Her project “MiTAnIm: Migration...

Daria Elagina speaks on "A Freudian Slip in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu?" at the Fiftieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, 24-27 October 2024...

Sophia Dege-Müller will speak at the seminar Meetings with the Psalms and Psalters about Psalters in the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition. The event...

On 17 October, two "Memorandums of Understanding" have been signed, between the Hiob Ludolf Centre (represented by the Faculty of Humanities) of...

Seminar

Monday 14 October 10:15-12:15

Universität Hamburg, HLCEES, Alsterterrasse 1, Seminar und Besprechunsgsraum 129

Tentative outline

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Prof. Dr. Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Associate Professor in Art History at the Department of Linguistics and Philology of Uppsala University, will join...

On 9 October 2024 Solomon Gebreyes talks on "Some Hagiographic Elements in the Chronicle of Śarḍa Dǝngǝl (r.1563‒1597)" at the Workshop Ethiopic...

International Workshop funded by the project ‘The Gǝʿǝz Version of the Passio of St Cyricus (Gadla Qirqos): A Critical Edition, Translation, and...