Programme
Monday, 26 September 2016: International Conference: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies - Looking back, looking ahead.
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Venue: Asien-Afrika-Institut (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (Ost), 20146 Hamburg), Room 122
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
| 09:15-10:00 am | Introduction to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: basic historical facts |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Introduction to Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: history of the discipline |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Methodology and basic tools in Ethiopian and Eritrean studies |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) | |
| 12:00-12:45 pm | Bibliographic tools: working with Zotero bibliography |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 15:15-16:00 pm | Introduction to Gəʿəz manuscript studies |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 16:00-16:45 pm | Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 16:45-17:15 pm | coffee break |
| 17:15-18:00 pm | Palaeography of Gəʿəz manuscripts |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 18:00-18:45 pm | Gəʿəz manuscripts in context |
| (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg) |
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Wednesday, 28 September 2016
| 09:15-10:00 am | Gəʿəz literature: periodization (with elements of epigraphy) |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Gəʿəz literature: genres and typology (literary and documentary) |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies: theory and practice |
| (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg) | |
| 12:00-12:45 pm | Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies: case studies |
| (Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 15:15-16:00 pm | Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: theory and practice |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 16:00-16:30 pm | Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: a case study |
| (Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Dr des., Hamburg) | |
| 16:30-17:00 pm | coffee break |
| 17:00-18:30 pm | Field research and manuscript studies: theoretical and ethical framework |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Antonella Brita, Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Hamburg) |
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Thursday, 29 September 2016
| 09:15-10:00 am | Philology / text criticism: history and methodology |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Case studies in text editing |
| (Dr Massimo Villa; Andreas Ellwardt, Dr des., Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Amharic as a vehicle language of manuscript culture |
| (Magdalena Krzyzanowska, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 12:00-12:45 pm | Poster session: Students' presentation of their research |
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Carsten Hoffman: On Ethiopic geographical literature - the text corpus of al-Makin Daniel Asmare: The Motif of the King of Ethiopia in the oikoumene in Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions Hagos Abrha: Critical Edition of Gädlä Yəmʿata with Cladistic Method Philip Michael Forness: Manuscript Collections and the Preservation of Christian Literature from Late Antiquity |
lunch break
| 15:15-16:45 pm | Islamic manuscript culture in Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) | |
| 16:45-17:15 pm | coffee break |
| 17:15-18:45 pm | Manuscript field research: Digitization. Theory and practice |
| (Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Antonella Brita, Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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Friday, 30 September 2016
| 09:15-10:00 am | Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: History of cataloguing |
| (Dr Massimo Villa, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: Theory and stratigraphy |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Electronic cataloguing of Gəʿəz manuscripts |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 12:00-12:45 pm | Cataloguing with basic means |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 15:15-16:00 pm | Cataloguing new manuscripts in the Ethio-SPaRe project: sharing the experience |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 16:00-16:45 pm | Exercise in Gəʿəz manuscript cataloguing |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Magdalena Krzyzanowska, MA, Dr Massimo Villa, Hamburg Sophia Dege-Müller, MA, Bochum) | |
| 16:45-17:15 pm | coffee break |
| 17:15-18:45 pm | Exercise in manuscript cataloguing continued |
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Saturday, 1 October 2016
| 09:15-10:45 am | Using TEI XML for manuscript cataloguing: a theoretical introduction |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:45 am | Using TEI XML for manuscript cataloguing: a practical workshop |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg) |
