Members and projects of the HLCES convene several panels within the framework of the 20th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES20) – “Regional and Global Ethiopia – Interconnections and Identities”, Mekelle town, Tigray, Ethiopia, 1-5 October 2018, including:
- Past, Present and...
From 24 to 29 September 2018, the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies organizes its third Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies - in Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Alessandro Bausi (paper: Introduction to the Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia: Early Developments and New Discoveries), Jacopo Gnisci (paper: Illustrated Ethiopic Gospels: From Late Antiquity to the Early Solomonic Period (ca. 350-1527)) and Solomon Gebreyes Beyene (paper: Ethiopian Royal...
Solomon Gebreyes Beyene will contribute to the Fifth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) at UCLA in Los Angeles from March 29th to April 1st, 2018 with the paper "Lamentation of King Gälawdewos...
Dr Denis Nosnitsin and Dorothea Reule, MA, researchers of the Project ‘Beta maṣāḥǝft: manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea’, worked in the Egyptian monastery of Dayr al-Suryān in the period 26 February–3 March making a preliminary evaluation of its Ethiopic collection. See the mission report...
The Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, projects Beta maṣāḥǝft, TraCES and Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg, Transmission of Knowledge in the Red Sea Area, at Universität Hamburg, in co-sponsorhsip with the PAThs project of Sapienza Università di Roma, and in cooperation with the...
Professor Steve Delamarter (visiting scholar of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project, Professor at George Fox University, Portland /PI of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) / Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project) gives a talk on The Social Lives of Ethiopian Psalters...
Alessandro Bausi and Solomon Gebreyes Beyene contribute to the IV Dies Academicus of the Classis Africana at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan taking place on 25-26 January 2018. View presentations online.
Alessandro Bausi will coordinate the IV Dies Academicus of the Classis Africana at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan taking place on 25-26 January 2018 together with Alberto Camplani and Stephen Emmel, and also give a presentation on "(A) A Few General Remarks on the Sources; (B) The HEpA...
Pietro Liuzzo participates on 19 January 2018 at the informal round table, Rappresentazione Geografica di Dati Storici e Archeologici, organized by the PAThs ERC-project at Sapienza Università di Roma.
In January and February 2018, Prof Dr Stephen Delamarter is the Guest Fellow in residence at the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. Prof. Delamarter is a specialist in Old Testament studies and the PI of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP) and the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament...
Massimo Villa will participate in the Italo-Eritrean Workshop "The Eritrean Cultural Heritage: Facts and Projects" in Naples, 12-13 December 2017, and present a paper on "Manuscript collections from Christian Eritrea: From cataloguing to text editing" .
Alessandro Bausi will participate as a discussant to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, SBL Ethiopic Bible and Literature Section. He will present ongoing work of the TraCES and Beta Maṣāḥǝft projects on Ethiopian textual and manuscript culture in the panel on...
Alessandro Bausi gives a lecture on 6 November 2017, at Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, on Recent Researches on Ethiopian Manuscript Culture.
A. Bausi speaks on "The state of the art of Ethiopian manuscript studies: a short overview" at the conference Manuscripts East and West – Towards Comparative and General Codicology. A Conference in Honour of Malachi Beit-Arié, Universität Hamburg, Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures...
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...
From September to November 2017 Dr Jacopo Gnisci is the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg Guest Fellow in residence at the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. Dr Gnisci (PhD SOAS, 2016) is an art historian specialising in Ethiopian Art and Christian manuscript illumination.
Pietro Liuzzo attends the Balisage 2017 conference with a paper on "Encoding the Ethiopic manuscript tradition".
