Research at HLCEES
The main tasks at HLCEES are:
- Coordination and networking for international projects in the field; planning of new projects in cooperation with other scholars as well as with various private and institutional sponsors;
- Conceiving, applying for and conducting of small and large-scale projects (e.g. in manuscript studies);
- Help in securing financial support for research in Ethiopian studies, including applying for scholarships and supervising graduate and postgraduate guest researchers (e.g. the DAAD, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, etc);
- Help in training of new researchers' generation; organization of field research; of internships and practical skill application possibilities; language courses in the focus region;
- Organization of conferences and workshops;
- Research organization (manuscript cataloguing, critical editions, theses supervisions, etc).
Use the menu on the right for details on the current and recent projects.
The (incomplete) list of major projects includes
ʾAbǝnnat Tǝmhǝrt: Documenting an Ancient Education System in Africa: ʾAbǝnnat Tǝmhǝrt in Ethiopia (since 2021)
Beta maṣāḥǝft. Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung (since 2016)
BeInf – Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity (since 2022)
CMCL: Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (in Hamburg since 2011)
COMSt: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies (since 2009)
EAe: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (1999-2014)
ENCODE: Bridging the <gap> in Ancient Writing Cultures (2020-2023)
Ethio-SPaRe: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia. Salvation, Preservation, Research (2009-2014)
ITIESE: Demarginalizing Medieval Africa: Images, Texts, and Identity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527) (since 2021)
SLAFNET: Slavery in Africa: A dialogue between Europe and Africa (2017-2020)
and many many other minor and individual projects and cooperations