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

BeInf PI Aaron Butts delivers a lecture on “Ezānā of Aksum: The First Christian African King” for the Department of Near & Middle Eastern...

On 24 November 2025 Solomon Gebreyes Beyene speaks on “King Śarḍa Dǝngǝl’s Chronicle (1563–1597): Examining Its Sources, Composition, and Authorship”...

Sophia Dege-Müller is participating at the workshop "Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages",  hosted on 18 November at the University...

The proceedings of the international workshop  Ethiopic Historiographical Texts: Editing and Translating, and Textual and Historical Analysis...

Dr Denis Nosnitsin speaks about the manuscript heritage of Ethiopia and Eritrea at the 2025 Kulturwochen Kiel on 5 November 2025.

Dr Lasse Løvlund Toft, a post-doc at the University of Oslo, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 3-7 November 2025.

On 23 October 2025, Guesh Solomon Teklu talks (together with Pietro Liuzzo)  at the conference Digital Publishing for Art History (Bibliotheca...

On 23 October 2025 at 19:00 Dr Denis Nosnitsin speaks on "Kulturerbe in Krisenzeiten: Strategien zum Schutz und zur Erforschung äthiopischer und...

The project Beta masāheft. Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas takes part in the Exhibition of the Academy of Sciences on the...

On 9 and 10 October 2025, a conference on "Oriental Orthodox Christianity in a Globalized World" co-organized by Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie took...

The Fall School in Manuscript Studies will take place in Addis Ababa from 6 to 10 October 2025. 

On 1 October 2025 a new project begins at HLCEES: PI Prof. Ass. Dr. Mersha Alehegne Mengistie is beginning his work on Roots and Cultural Importance...

The 22nd International Conference of Ethiopian Studies takes place in Hawasa, Ethiopia, from 29 September to 3 October 2025, with active participation...

BeInf team member Sophia Dege-Müller appears as an expert on NDR's radio program "vertikal horizontal. Glaubens- und Gewissensfragen" on Sunday...

Dr. Denis Nosnitsin has received financial support from the Universität Hamburg for the project "The manuscript patrimony of the crisis region Tigray...

Dorothea Reule (Distinctive features of the two translations of the Ethiopic Synaxarion), Jonas Karlsson (Traces of matres lectionis in an Early Geez...

11 September 2025

BeInf team member Ted Erho presents “Escaping Death: The Tale of the Egyptian Brothers Jannes and Jambres” at the conference...

As a latest instalment of the Beta maṣāḥǝft working papers a new study has been published: Massimo Villa,  An Ancient Homiliary from ʿUrā Masqal. Part...