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

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...

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

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...

The volume Giulia Bonacci, Alexander Meckelburg, Serena Tolino, and Ahmed Hassen, eds, Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopian Studies (Wiesbaden...

The essay by Michael Hensley on Ephemeral Libraries and Everlasting Lists: Organising and Preserving Knowledge in Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea has...

On 10 July 2025 Nafisa Valieva presents on Depiction of Space in Geʿez (Ethiopic) Hagiography at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.

On 9 July 2025, Denis Nosnitsin takes part in the international conference " Once, We Were Here: Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire", 8–10...

On 4 July 2025 at 10 am Augustine Shawn Dickinson defends his PhD on Malkǝʾa Gubāʾe Manuscripts and the Development of Malkǝʾ Anthologies at the...

On 3 July 2025 Dorothea Reule defends her PhD dissertation on Übersetzung und frühe Überlieferung des äthiopischen Synaxars in Universität Marburg. 

The historian Prof. Emeritus Haggai Erlich of Tel Aviv University will be giving a public lecture at the University of Hamburg on 20 June 2025. The...

On 19 June 2025, Magdalena Krzyżanowska will present a talk on “A multiplicity of converbs in Amharic” at the 26th Afrikanist:innentag in Vienna. See...

On 13 June 2015, Addisie Yalew talks at the workshop "Learning to Write" at CSMC (Hamburg) on "Scribes and Practices of Writing in Twenty-first...

Im Rahmen des Seminars "57-660 Projektentwicklung oder Entwicklungsprojekt...

Dr Maria Bulakh, associate professor at HSE University, joins BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 5-9 May 2025.