2009
30 December 2009
1-3 December: opening conference of the COMSt project.
December: start of the Ethio-SPARE: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation, Research project funded by the European Research Council
2-5 November: participation of the HLCES Staff at the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Abeba
October: renaming of the Research Unit of Ethiopian Studies as Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
September: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi becomes Chair Professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg and head of the HLCES
June: launching of the Research Networking Project "Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies" (COMSt) funded by the European Science Foundation
March: inauguration of the new location of the centre at Rothenbaumchaussee 19