Programme
Venue: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (West), Room 121, 20146 Hamburg
Monday, 25 September 2017
| 09:00-09:15 am | Registration and opening |
| 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 |
| 11:15-12:45 am | Methodology and basic tools in Ethiopian and Eritrean studies |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) |
lunch break
| 14:15-15:00 pm | Introduction to Gəʿəz manuscript studies |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 15:00-16:30 pm | Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts |
| (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) |
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017
| 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
| 14:15-15:00 pm | Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: theory and practice |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 15:00-15:45 pm | Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts: a case study |
| (Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hamburg) | |
| Working with translated texts: a case study | |
| (Dorothea Reule, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 15:45-16:15 pm | coffee break |
| 16:15-17:15 pm | Bibliographic tools: working with Zotero bibliography |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 17:15-18:45 pm | Ongoing research projects |
| 17:15-17:35 pm | Heritage Made Digital: Ethiopian Manuscripts in the British Library |
| (Eyob Fekadu Derillo) | |
| 17:35-17:55 pm | Mäṣḥafä Mǝsṭirä Sämay wä-Mǝdr: Critical Edition and Annotated Translation |
| (Solomon Getaneh) | |
| 17:55-18:15 | The archangels Michael and Raphael in Coptic documentary and epigraphic sources |
| (Anna Salsano) | |
| 18:15-18:35 | Enoch and the Angels: Scriptural Interpretation and Mythical Traditions in the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) |
| (Mirjam Bokhorst) |
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
| 09:15-10:45 am | Islamic manuscript culture in Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Amharic as a vehicle language of manuscript culture |
| (Magdalena Krzyzanowska, MA, Hamburg; Hiruie Ermias, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 12:00-12:45 am | Philology / text criticism: history and methodology |
| (Prof. Dr Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 14:15-15:00 pm | Case studies in text editing |
| (Dr Massimo Villa) | |
| 15:00-16:30 pm | Manuscript digitization: theory, prerequisites, methodology |
| (Prof. Dr Steve Delamarter, Portland) | |
| 16:30-17:00 pm | coffee break |
| 17:00-18:30 pm | Field research and manuscript studies: focus on Christian tradition |
| (Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) |
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Thursday, 28 September 2017
| 09:15-10:00 am | Introduction to Art History: History of the Discipline and Methodology |
| (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Introduction to the History and Historiography of Ethiopian and Eritrean Art |
| (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Hamburg) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 am | Introduction to the History of Manuscript Illumination in Ethiopia and Eritrea (c. 400-1527) with a focus on Gospel Books |
| (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Hamburg) | |
| 12:00-12:45 am | A Case Study: Towards a Comparative Framework for Research on Ethiopic Gospel Books |
| (Dr Jacopo Gnisci, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 14:15-15:00 pm | Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: History of cataloguing |
| (Dr Massimo Villa, Hamburg) | |
| 15:00-16:30 pm | Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: Theory and stratigraphy |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 16:30-17:00 pm | coffee break |
| 17:00-17:45 pm | Electronic cataloguing of Gəʿəz manuscripts |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) | |
| 17:45-18:30 pm | Cataloguing with basic means |
| (Eugenia Sokolinski, MA, Hamburg) |
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Friday, 29 September 2017
| 09:15-10:00 am | Electronic cataloguing in the Ethio-SPaRe project: sharing the experience |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Hamburg) | |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Exercise in Gəʿəz manuscript cataloguing |
| (Dr Denis Nosnitsin, Susanne Hummel, MA, Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Magdalena Krzyzanowska, MA, Dr Antonella Brita, Dr Massimo Villa, Dorothea Reule, MA, Hamburg ) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:45 pm | Exercise in Gəʿəz manuscript cataloguing continued |
lunch break
| 14:15-16:15 pm | Exercise in Gəʿəz manuscript cataloguing continued |
| 16:15-16:45 pm | coffee break |
| 16:45-18:15 pm | Field research and manuscript studies: Focus on Islamic tradition |
| (Dr Michele Petrone, Dr Sara Fani, Copenhagen) | |
| ca 18:15-20 pm | Get together |
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Saturday, 30 September 2017
| 09:15-10:45 am | Digital humanities: new developments in Gəʿəz corpus linguistics |
| (Wolfgang Dickhut, MA, Andreas Ellwardt, MA) | |
| 10:45-11:15 am | coffee break |
| 11:15-12:45 am | Digital humanities: a theoretical introduction to TEI XML |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg) |
lunch break
| 14:15-16:15 pm | Digital humanities: TEI XML for manuscript cataloguing and text editing: a practical workshop |
| (Dr Pietro Liuzzo, Hamburg) | |
| 16:15-16:30 pm | Closing words |
