News (2024)

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

Several BeInf team members took part in the international workshop “Ethiopic Hagiographic Literature: Manuscript Tradition, Textual Transmission...

Vitagrazia Pisani presented on "The Miracles of Qirqos as a Distinct Corpus from the Gadl: Elements of Content and Manuscript Tradition" during the...

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

On 7 October 2024, Sophia Dege-Müller is hosting an international workshop entitled "Cataloguing Beta Israel Manuscripts: Current Trends and Beyond."

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Dr Martina Ambu will join BeInf as a short-term research fellow for the week of 7-11 October, before her position as a post-doc next year.

Visit our Education Offerings page for a list of courses offered in 2024/2025. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudies/study.html. Many of the...

Hewan S. Marye’s book titled Jesting the Lion: Humour in Modern Ethiopia has recently been published in Äthiopistische Forschungen. A record of...

Hewan Semon Marye was quoted in two recent stories about Haile Selassie and the end of his rule fifty years ago on 12 September 1974: a print story by...

The Hiob Ludolf Centre was featured in a story today in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

On 6 September 2024, an event was held at the Hamburg...

In 2024 Hiob Ludolf, the name-giver of the HLCEES, is celebrating his 400th birthday.

On 6 September 2024, Universität Hamburg marked this date by an...

Shiferaw Bekele, Prof. Emeritus Addis Ababa University History Department, joins our project for a short visit.

Solomon Gebreyes Beyene attends the workshop Biographies of Rulers in the Premodern Islamicate World, Leiden University, 29 July - 2 August 2024, with...

The AAI graduates (BA; MA; PHD) were celebrated on 6 July 2024. Congratulations again to the HLCEES members Jonas Karlsson and Sophia Dege-Müller.

Sophia Dege-Müller will speak at the The Text and Transmission Joint Research Seminar (TeTra), hosted at the University of Leuven, on July 4, 2024...

Several HLCEES members attend the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (1-3 July 2024).

Guesh Solomon Teklu presents a paper on 'Gadla ʿƎsṭifānos...

Solomon Gebreyes Beyene attends the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (1-3 July 2024); he takes part in a round table discussion 'Medieval...

Senats-Sitzungssaal, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg and Zoom

First published in 1883, the Chronicle of the Severan-miaphysite bishop John of...

Assistant Professor Dr. Felege-Selam Yirga will join BeInf as a short-term research fellow from June to August, 2024.