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On 23 October 2025 at 19:00 Dr Denis Nosnitsin speaks on "Kulturerbe in Krisenzeiten: Strategien zum Schutz und zur Erforschung äthiopischer und...

The project Beta masāheft. Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas takes part in the Exhibition of the Academy of Sciences on the...

The 22nd International Conference of Ethiopian Studies takes place in Hawasa, Ethiopia, from 29 September to 3 October 2025, with active participation...

Dr. Denis Nosnitsin has received financial support from the Universität Hamburg for the project "The manuscript patrimony of the crisis region Tigray...

Dorothea Reule (Distinctive features of the two translations of the Ethiopic Synaxarion), Jonas Karlsson (Traces of matres lectionis in an Early Geez...

As a latest instalment of the Beta maṣāḥǝft working papers a new study has been published: Massimo Villa,  An Ancient Homiliary from ʿUrā Masqal. Part...

On 10 July 2025 Nafisa Valieva presents on Depiction of Space in Geʿez (Ethiopic) Hagiography at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds.

On 9 July 2025, Denis Nosnitsin takes part in the international conference " Once, We Were Here: Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire", 8–10...

On 3 July 2025 Dorothea Reule defends her PhD dissertation on Übersetzung und frühe Überlieferung des äthiopischen Synaxars in Universität Marburg.

On 19 June 2025, Magdalena Krzyżanowska will present a talk on “A multiplicity of converbs in Amharic” at the 26th Afrikanist:innentag in Vienna. See...

Guesh Solomon Teklu is attending the conference Encountering Mary in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition (25–26 April) jointly organized by Regent’s Park...

Jonas Karlsson presents at the Byzantine Studies Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks 

The monograph “Epistemic Modality in Amharic” by Magdalena Krzyżanowska has been published and will soon be available in bookshops. The book offers...

2 and 3 December 2024

HLCEES, Alsterterrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg

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Members of the project take part in the Workshop Cataloguing practices in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies, Naples, 21-22 November 2024.

Members of the project take part in the Workshop Ethiopic Hagiographic Literature, Hamburg, 8-9 October 2024 with 6 papers.

Alessandro Bausi speaks on...

Jonas Karlsson presents at the Cantus Planus Study Group 2024 Conference in Gödöllő, Hungary (30 July–3 August 2024), talking on  "Melodic families...

Guesh Solomon Teklu attends the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (1-3 July 2024) with the paper on 'Gadla ʿƎsṭifānos: The Life of St Stephen...

Denis Nosnitsin takes part in the International Symposium "Voicing the Mystery: International Symposium on Ethiopic Qǝne", Sankt Ignatios College...