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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...

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...

Aaron Butts delivers lecture at Late Antique Seminar in Warsaw University on "The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians".

Here the...

BeInf PI Aaron Butts appears in the podcast “Byzantium & Friends” in an episode on “Ezana of Aksum: The First Christian African King.”

The podcast is...

On 26 February, the "Memorandum of Understanding" has been signed between the Hiob Ludolf Centre (represented by the Faculty of Humanities) of...

Boaz Zissu, Professor at Bar-Ilan University, visits the Hiob Ludolf Centre for the joint project “Understanding the ‘Kingdom of the Gideonites’”...

Female monastic movements in Medieval Ethiopia: History and Hagiography

Speaker:
Dr. Martina Ambu

Date/Time:
Friday, January 16th, 2026, at 12–14 h...

On 13 December 2025, 22 Episode of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence features Augustine Dickinson, Guesh Solomon, and Mersha Alehegne who talk...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the  "TANA-Treffen 2025 Hamburg",  of the Deutsche Archäologische Institut. On Decmber 3 she will present the...