Tentative Programme
The Summer School will take place at the Semien Hotel, Addis Ababa
Registration: Sunday 29 September 4 to 6 pm and Monday 30 September 8 to 9 am
Day 1: Monday, September 30, 2019
Introductory classes
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08:00-09:00 am |
Registration and opening |
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09:00-10:00 am |
Welcome addresses from the organizers and officials: |
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Minister of Culture and Tourism; President of Addis Ababa University; Representative of the Patriarchate of the EOTC; Representative of the Islamic Council |
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10:00-10:15 am |
coffee break |
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10:15-11:00 am |
Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: basic historical facts (Prof. Shiferaw Bekele, Addis Ababa) |
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11:00-11:45 am |
Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: history of the discipline (Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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11:45-12:30 pm |
Tools and resources in Ethiopian and Eritrean studies (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen, Dr. Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg) |
lunch break
Gəʿəz manuscript studies: codicology and palaeography
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14:00-14:45 pm |
State of the art in the Ethiopian manuscript heritage preservation (Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie, Addis Ababa) |
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14:45-15:30 pm |
Gəʿəz manuscripts in context (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg) |
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15:30-16:00 pm |
coffee break |
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16:00-16:45 pm |
Scribal practices in Gəʿəz manuscripts (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg) |
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16:45-17:30 pm |
Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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17:30-18:15 pm |
Palaeography of Gəʿəz manuscripts (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
Day 2: Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Gəʿəz written heritage: the content
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08:15-09:00 am |
Gəʿəz literature: periodization, genres and typology (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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09:00-09:45 am |
Philology and text-critical approach: history and methodology (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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09:45-10:15 am |
group photo coffee break |
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10:15-11:00 am |
Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies: theory and practice (Dr Antonella Brita, Hamburg) |
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11:00-11:45 am |
Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: theory and practice (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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11:45-12:30 pm |
Case studies on text editing of hagiographic and historiographic texts (Susanne Hummel, Hamburg, Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hamburg) |
lunch break
Ethiopian Islamic manuscript studies
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14:00-14:45 pm |
Islamic literature of Ethiopia and Eritrea: periodization, typology, authors (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) |
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14:45-15:30 pm |
Islamic manuscript studies: key notions, history, state of the art (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) |
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15:30-16:00 pm |
coffee break |
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16:00-16:45 pm |
Islamic manuscripts in context (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) |
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16:45-17:30 pm |
Codicology of Islamic manuscripts (Dr Sara Fani, Florence) |
Day 3: Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Other Ethiopian manuscript traditions
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08:15-09:00 am |
Beta ʾƎsrāʾel manuscripts: form and content (Sophia Dege-Müller, Bochum) |
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09:00-09:45 am |
Amharic manuscripts: form and content (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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09:45-10:15 am |
coffee break |
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10:15-12:30 am |
Case studies and ongoing research (staff and students) |
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Muna Abubeker (Addis Ababa University): Significance of the 19th c. Court Documents of Harar Haymanot Getahun and Meaza Zenebe Gebrehans (Raya University): Preliminary survey on the manuscripts of Hashenge and Hawzien Alexander McCarron (Oxford University): The Translation of 1 Enoch from Greek to Ethiopic and the LXX Tesfu Asmare Molla (Addis Ababa University): Enzira Sebhat: Critical Edition with Analytical Introduction Hussein Mohammedsani Kasim (Addis Ababa University): Shaykh Hassen Annannoo's ‘Ağamī-Oromo Works |
lunch break
Excursion
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14:00-17:30 pm |
Visit to the St George Cathedral with a review of manuscripts |
Evening Lecture
The Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa invites everyone to the public lecture
"Manuscript Art from Late Antique Ethiopia"
by Dr Jacopo Gnisci
on 2 October 2019 at 18:00
Day 4, Thursday, October 3, 2019
Digital humanities
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08:15-09:00 am |
Understanding stratigraphy (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
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09:00-09:45 am |
Digital humanities: definition, history, examples of application (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hamburg) |
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09:45-10:15 am |
coffee break |
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10:15-11:00 am |
TEI XML for manuscript research and text editing (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hamburg) |
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11:00-12:30 pm |
TEI XML practical workshop |
lunch break
Art history
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14:00-14:45 pm |
History and historiography of Ethiopian art (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Oxford) |
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14:45-15:30 pm |
Themes and techniques of manuscript illumination (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Oxford) |
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15:30-16:00 pm |
coffee break |
Conservation and preservation
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16:00-16:45 pm |
Manuscript preservation: damages, decay and prevention (Marco Di Bella, Palermo) |
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16:45-17:30 pm |
Manuscript conservation and restoration (Marco Di Bella, Palermo) |
Day 5, Friday, October 4, 2019
Cataloguing
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08:15-09:00 am |
Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: history of cataloguing (Susanne Hummel, Hamburg) |
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09:00-09:45 am |
Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: theory of cataloguing (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
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09:45-10:15 am |
coffee break |
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10:15-11:00 am |
Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: electronic cataloguing (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
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11:00-12:30 pm |
Exercise in manuscript cataloguing (1) |
lunch break
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14:00-15:30 pm |
Exercise in manuscript cataloguing (2) |
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15:30-16:00 pm |
coffee break |
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16:00-17:30 pm |
Exercise in manuscript cataloguing (3) |
Day 6, Saturday, October 5, 2019
Digitization
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08:15-09:00 am |
Field research and digitization (Susanne Hummel, Hamburg) |
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09:00-09:45 am |
Manuscript digitization: theory and challenges (Susanne Hummel, Hamburg) |
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09:45-10:15 am |
coffee break |
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10:15-12:30 pm |
Digitization workshop (1) |
lunch break
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14:00-15:30 pm |
Closing ceremony |
Day 7, Sunday, October 6, 2019
A possibility of a full-day excursion to a traditional manuscript repository (monastery of Dabra Libanos, Shoa) as an extra-curricular activity.
