Dorothea Reule, Wissenschaftliche Assistentin für Semitistik at the Universität Heidelberg, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for 17 to 28...

On 30 June 2026, during Hamburg Sustainability Week, UHH Knowledge Transfer Fund Projects organize a Knowledge Exchange Lunch at HADLEY'S Bar Hamburg...

June 25 & 26, 2026. Sophia Dege-Müller and Jonas Karlsson give a lecture on "Continuity and Innovation in the Ethiopic Tradition of the Psalms" during...

On 1, 2, and 4 June Dr. Denis Nosnitsin gave a series of lectures on Ethiopic palaeography to the PhD studens of Bahir Dar University, in the...

Anton Pritula, who is currenlty based at the Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg) and at HSE University (Moscow), visits the Hiob Ludolf Centre for three...

On 28 May Dr Denis Nosnitsin made a talk “The Orthodox Funeral Service and its Manuscript Background” in the Project Group “Written Artefacts for...

Over 21-29 May, the HLCEES hosts a project meeting of KEWAKIBT [CONSTELLATIONS]: Une prosopographie numérique des érudits islamiques en Éthiopie...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts will be a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton over 20-30 May. He is associated with the School of...

Ted Erho delivers a lecture at Warsaw University at the conference 75 Years of Ethiopian Studies in Warsaw. He will present on Ethiopic fragments of...

Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie talks at the International Conference "Seventy-Five Years of Ethiopian Studies: Voices Beyond Language, Cultures Beyond...

The volume Jonah in the Ethiopic Biblical Tradition by Jeremy Brown was recently published in the new series Ethiopic Bible and Related Literature at...

On 6 May 2026, Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie talks on "Authorship as Exegesis: The Reception of Biblical ‘Authors’ in the Ethiopian Andəmtā Commentary...

Grant from the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO)

1 May 2026 

The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) has awarded a grant...

Anaïs Wion, a historian of Medieval Ethiopia, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 4-8 May 2026.

Getinet Merid, a PhD student at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Gondar, visits the Hiob Ludolf Centre, with the...

This year, the lecture series Africa and Asia Beyond the Headlines is offered at AAI beginning on 10 April. The programme...

Carolin Schäfer, a specialist of Ethiopian and Eritrean art who recently defended her PhD on “Sacred Images from Ethiopia. Intercultural Workshops and...

The interdisciplinary research workshop will be held 26–27 March 2026 at the Asia-Africa-Institute at the University of Hamburg:

In the spirit of the...

On 27 March 2026 Hewan Semon Marye talks on "Memory and transmission of knowledge in Ethiopia, the Darg era" at the VII Dies Academicus of the Classe...