The Garima Gospels
3 November 2016
On 3 November 2016 Alessandro Bausi speaks on Garima palaeography and other early texts at the Symposium The Garima Gospels, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum
Programme
9:30 – Coffee
Morning session: The Garima manuscripts revisited
10:15 – Welcome by Wim Hupperetz, director Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam
10:30 – Introduction by Chair Jan Retsö, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Gothenburg (SE)
10:45 – The Garima decoration by Judith McKenzie and Miranda Williams, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford (GB)
11:30 – The Garima canon table content and texts by Francis Watson, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University (GB)
12:15 – The Garima palaeography and other early texts by Alessandro Bausi, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg (DE)
13:00 – Break (possibility to have lunch at own expense)
Afternoon session: The later legacy of Ethiopian art and architecture to the present
14:00 – Introduction by Chair: Francis Watson
14:15 – Carving rock-cut churches, by Michael Gervers, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto (CA)
14:45 – Syriac Christianity and its contacts with Ethiopia by Stefanie Rudolf, Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
15:15 – Discussion and concluding remarks
16:00 – Opening of the photo exhibition Holy Books. The Garima Gospels from Ethiopia, and presentation of the book The Garima Gospels. Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia. You can register either for the whole day or for the opening only.
Photo exhibition
The symposium will end with the festive opening of a photo exhibition, which was created by Judith McKenzie and Miranda Williams (University of Oxford). The photographs on display were made by Michael Gervers (University of Toronto) during several visits to the Garima Monastery. The photo exhibition Holy Books: the Ethiopian Garima Gospels will be on show from 4 November 2016 through 26 March 2017 at the Allard Pierson Museum.