Programme

Day 1, Monday, 24 September

09:00-09:15 am

Registration and opening. Greetings from the officials and organizers.

[Introductory Classes]

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

Introduction to Gəʿəz manuscript studies (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg)

12:45-13:30 pm

State of the art in the Ethiopian manuscript heritage preservation: with an example from ʾAbuna ʾAbrǝhām (Dr Hagos Abrha, Mekelle)

13:30-15:00 pm lunch break

[Codicology and Palaeography]

15:00-15:45 pm

Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts: Materials and composition (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg)

15:45-16:30 pm

Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts: Layout. The scribe at work (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg)

16:30-17:00 pm coffee break

17:00-17:45 pm

Palaeography of Gəʿəz manuscripts (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg)

17:45-18:30 pm

Gəʿəz manuscripts in context (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg)

Day 2, Tuesday, 25 September

[Gəʿəz literature and philology]

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

Philology / text criticism: history and methodology (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg)

12:00-12:45 pm

Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies: theory and practice (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg)

12:45-13:30 pm

Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: theory and practice (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg)

13:30-15:00 pm lunch break

[Case studies]

15:00-15:45 pm

Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies (Susanne Hummel, MA, Hamburg)

15:45-16:30 pm

Working with Gəʿəz historiographic texts (Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Dr, Hamburg)

16:30-17:00 pm coffee break

17:00-17:45 pm

Working papers:

S. Paulau, Missionaries as/and Orientalists: Protestant Mission, Ethiopian Studies and the Quest for Ethiopian Orthodox Manuscripts in the 19th Century

A. MacFarlane, Scoping the BL Armenian Manuscripts for Digitisation

17:45-18:30 pm

Working papers:

Yonas Yilma, The Nexus between the Hagiography and Chronicle of ase Iyasu I

Yeneneh Tariku, Philological and Historical Analysis of the Chronicle of Bafäna

Day 3, Wednesday, 26 September

[Digital humanities]

09:15-10:00 am

Digital resources for Gəʿəz manuscripts and texts (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg)

10:00-10:45 am

Digital analysis of Gəʿəz texts (Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Susanne Hummel, MA, Hamburg)

10:45-11:15 am coffee break

11:15-12:00 am

TEI XML for manuscript research: an introduction (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg)

12:00-12:45 pm

TEI XML for text editing: practical workshop

12:45-13:30 pm

TEI XML for text editing: practical workshop

13:30-15:00 pm lunch break

[Islamic tradition]

15:00-15:45 pm

Islamic literature in Ethiopia and Eritrea (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen)

15:45-16:30 pm

Introduction to Islamic manuscript studies (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen)

16:30-17:00 pm coffee break

17:00-17:45 pm

Codicology of Islamic manuscripts. (Sara Fani, Dr, Copenhagen)

17:45-18:30 pm

Islamic manuscripts in context (Michele Petrone, Dr, Copenhagen)

Day 4, Thursday, 27 September

[Cataloguing]

09:15-10:00 am

History of cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts (Dr Massimo Villa, Hamburg) 

10:00-10:45 am

Cataloguing manuscripts: Theory and stratigraphy (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg)

10:45-11:15 am coffee break

11:15-12:00 am

Manuscript cataloguing: selecting criteria and preparation. Basic tools (Dr Denis Nosnitsin)

12:00-12:45 pm

Electronic cataloguing of manuscripts: approaches, resources, examples (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg)

12:45-14:15 pm lunch break

[Cataloguing]

14:15-15:00 pm

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

15:00-15:45 pm

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

15:45-16:30 pm

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

16:30-17:00 pm coffee break

17:00-17:45 pm

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

17:45-18:30 pm

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

Day 5, Friday, 28 September

[Cataloguing]

09:15-10:00 am

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

10:00-10:45 am

Exercise in manuscript cataloguing

10:45-11:15 am coffee break

[Digitization] 

11:15-12:00 am

Field research and digitization (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg, Dr Michele Petrone, Copenhagen)

12:00-12:45 pm

Manuscript digitization: theory and challenges  (Susanne Hummel, MA, Hamburg)

12:45-14:15 pm lunch break

Possibly visit to St Yared Center and Mekelle University

14:15-15:00 pm

Manuscript digitization workshop: preparing manuscripts

15:00-15:45 pm

Manuscript digitization workshop: operating a working station

15:45-16:30 pm

Digitization workshop

16:30-17:00 pm coffee break

17:00-17:45 pm

Digitization workshop

17:45-18:30 pm

Digitization workshop

Day 6, Saturday, 29 September

[Art history]

09:15-10:00 am

Introduction to Art History: History of the Discipline and Methodology (Jacopo Gnisci, PhD, Hamburg)

10:00-10:45 am

Introduction to the History and Historiography of Ethiopian Art (Jacopo Gnisci, PhD, Hamburg)

10:45-11:30 am

Towards a History of Manuscript Illumination in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Focus on Gospel Books (Jacopo Gnisci, PhD, Hamburg)

11:30-12:00 am coffee break

[Conservation]

12:00-12:45 pm

Manuscript preservation: damages, decay and prevention (Marco Di Bella, Palermo)

12:45-13:30 pm

Manuscript conservation and restoration (Marco Di Bella, Palermo)

Closing