Tentative Programme
Day 1: Monday, September 20, 2021
Online
Introductory classes
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10:00-10:30 CET |
Summer school: concept, main themes, outlook, wishes, concerns (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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10:45-11:30 |
Introduction into Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: periodization / history of the discipline (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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11:30-11:45 |
Questions and answers session |
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12:00-12:30 |
Getting to know each other |
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12:30-13:00 |
Ethiopian manuscripts: state of the preservation (Prof. Mersha Alehegne Mengistie, Addis Ababa) |
13:00-14:00 - Social lunch (only those who have time and wish to eat and drink in front of the screen)
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14:00-14:30 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts: collections and cataloguing history (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
| 14:45-15:15 | Exercise session |
| 15:15-15:30 | Questions and answers session |
| 15:45-16:45 |
Students' and teachers' projects and case studies |
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Jonas Karlsson: A very short introduction to the Ethiopic musical notation Guesh Solomon Teklu: Techniques of manuscript production: A focus on Lәggat (ልጋት) tradition of calligraphy, East Tigray Solomon Gebreyes Beyene: Editing historiographical texts: the Chronicle of Galawdewos |
17:00-18:00
Evening lecture:
Written text and oral performance in the Ethiopian Islamic devotional practice: The collection of poems for the Prophet's Mawlid in Harar
(Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen)
Day 2: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Gəʿəz manuscript studies: codicology
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10:00-10:30 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts: key aspects of codicology (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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10:45-11:15 |
Exercise session |
| 11:15-11:30 | Questions and answers session |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Introduction into the Beta maṣāḥǝft research environment (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
| 12:30-12:45 | Questions and answers session |
13:00-14:00 - Social lunch (only those who have time and wish to eat and drink in front of the screen)
Gəʿəz manuscript studies: art history
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14:00-14:30 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts & aspects of art history: Theory & methodologies (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, London) |
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14:45-15:30 |
Ethiopian art & manuscript illumination: Themes & techniques (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, London) |
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15:45-16:15 |
Exercise session |
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16:15-16:30 |
Questions and answers |
17:00-18:00
Evening lecture: Amharic Manuscript Tradition
(Magdalena Krzyzanowska, Hamburg)
Day 3: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Gəʿəz text studies
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10:00-10:30 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts: contents (Genres, typology, periodization) (Prof. Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
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10:45-11:15 |
Approaches to text studies. Text criticism (Prof. Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Exercise session |
| 12:00-12:30 | Questions and answers session |
13:00-14:00 - Social lunch (only those who have time and wish to eat and drink in front of the screen)
Gəʿəz manuscript studies: palaeography
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14:00-14:30 |
Palaeography: Typology and chronology of Gəʿəz scripts (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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14:45-15:15 |
Exercise session |
| 15:15-15:30 | Questions and answers session |
17:00-18:00
Evening lecture: Seals in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture
(Daria Elagina, Hamburg)
Day 4, Thursday, September 23, 2021
Cataloguing
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10:00-10:30 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts: respecting stratigraphy (Dorothea Reule, Hamburg) |
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10:45-11:15 |
Gəʿəz manuscripts: theory of cataloguing (Eugenia Sokolinski, Hamburg) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Questions and answers. Introducing the cataloguing template |
| 12:15-12:45 |
Cataloguing exercise (individual/group): cataloguing physical aspects I (supervised by: Sophia Dege-Müller, Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Jonas Karlsson, Dorothea Reule, Daria Elagina, Vitagrazia Pisani) |
13:00-14:00 - Social lunch (only those who have time and wish to eat and drink in front of the screen)
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14:00-14:30 |
Exercise (individual/group): cataloguing physical aspects II (supervised by: Sophia Dege-Müller, Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Jonas Karlsson, Dorothea Reule, Daria Elagina, Vitagrazia Pisani) |
| 14:45-16:30 | Cataloguing exercise continued (with breaks) |
17:00-18:00
Evening lecture: Nexus Between Orature and Literature in the Ethiopian Christian Commentary Tradition (Andǝmta)
(Mersha Alehegne Mengistie, Addis Ababa)
Day 5, Friday, September 24, 2021
Cataloguing
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10:00-12:45 |
Cataloguing exercise continued (with breaks) |
13:00-14:00 - Social lunch (only those who have time and wish to eat and drink in front of the screen)
Conservation and preservation
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14:00-14:30 |
Manuscript preservation: decay and prevention (Eliana Dal Sasso, Hamburg) |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Manuscript restoration (Eliana Dal Sasso, Hamburg) |
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15:15-15:30 |
Questions and answers session |
| 15:45-16:00 | Roundup - final questions and answers |
| 16:15-16:45 | Feedback to the organizers |
16:45-open end: Virtual drinks
Additional facultative offers
27-29 September 2021: 3-day training in TEI for Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript cataloguing
