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Alessandro Bausi participates in the Workshop ‘Measuring linguistic distance – classifying languages’, Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature straniere, Verona, 6 October 2017.

From 25 to 30 September  2017, the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies organizes its second Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies.

Alessandro Bausi takes part, as a discussant, in the Conference ‘The Coptic book between the 6th and the 8th century: Codicological features, places of production, intellectual trends’, PAThs First International Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia – Academia...

Pietro Liuzzo attends the Balisage 2017 conference with a paper on "Encoding the Ethiopic manuscript tradition".

Pietro Liuzzo and Dorothea Reule present the project with the talk "Issues in the development of digital projects based on user requirements. The case of Beta maṣāḥǝft" within the Digital Classicist lecture series in London.

Alessandro Bausi will be presenting the Beta maṣāḥǝft project at the 2017 Akademientag in Heidelberg, Germany, on 7 July 2017.

On 4 July 2017, Solomon Gebreyes Beyene speaks at the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 3-6 July 2017) within the framework of the panel "Medieval Ethiopia II: Gospel Books and Chronicles" on "Representations of the Portuguese in the Royal Chronicle of King Gälawdewos, 1540-1559: A...

Alessandro Bausi and Antonella Brita speak of "A Few Remarks on the Hagiographico-Homiletic Collections in Ethiopic Manuscripts" at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in the framework of the workshop "Hagiographico-homiletic collections in Greek, Latin and Oriental Manuscripts –...

On 21 June 2017, Alessandro Bausi participates at the Table ronde ‘Evangéliaires d’Abba Gärima’ (Sorbonne, EPHE, Salle Gaston Paris (D059), 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris) with the paper  ‘The ʾAbbā Garimā Gospels: A few remarks on the history of research and their importance’

On 20 June 2017, within the framework of the workshop Christianization process in Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia: texts, monasticism and ecclesiastic structures (Université Paris IV, Maison de la Recherche, Salle D421, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris, 20 June 2017, h. 9:30-18:00),
Alessandro Bausi...

The sub project "Place names in the Chronicle of King Gälawdewos: a prototype geo-annotated text of the Ethiopic tradition"  by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene and Pietro Liuzzo has been awarded a 2017 Pelagios Commons Resource Development Grant.

Pietro Liuzzo presents the project at the 2017 Global Philology meeting in Göttingen on 9 May 2017

Pietro Liuzzo speaks of the BM manuscript cataloguing environment at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in the framework of the workshop "Cataloguing and Metadating Chinese Manuscripts" on 5 May 2017.

Pietro Liuzzo meets the PAThs team (Rome) in order to share reflections concerning technical aspects of the research work, such as the mark-up of texts, the use of identifiers for literary works, the representation of the codicological features of a manuscript, the visual representation of...

Michele Petrone from the IslHornAfr project visits Hamburg (21-24.3.2017) for a discussion of a possibility of database merge with the BM project.

Alessandro Bausi meets the PAThs team (Rome) to discuss common aspects of the research work, such as the mark-up of Coptic and Ethiopic texts, the codicological description, and the classification of author and works.

From 26 to 28 January the 3rd Dies Academicus of the Classis Africana of the Accademia Ambrosiana takes place in Milan; Denis Nosnitsin of the HLCES presents on the "Hagiographic Traditions of Gulo Mäkäda (East Tigray, Ethiopia): An Overview".

The Beta maṣāḥǝft project participates in the Workshop of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and the Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften Nachnutzung und Nachnutzbarkeit der Forschung im Akademienprogramm (Düsseldorf, 9-11 November 2016). On 10...

On 3 November 2016 Alessandro Bausi speaks on Garima palaeography and other early texts at the Symposium The Garima Gospels, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum