In Äthiopien liegt die Müttersterblichkeit mehr als 150-mal höher als in Deutschland. Ein mit 30.000 Euro gefördertes Transferprojekt an der UHH will Frauen und Mädchen nun Infos rund um Gesundheit, Hygiene und Ernährung zur Verfügung stellen – insbesondere für werdende Mütter mit Behinderungen.

Excited to share my book!! What a year, totally wild. Will be available in open access soon www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_Kampf_de...

Chance to learn Ge'ez next summer. Follow the link for more details: hmml.org/programs/int...

Are you interested or do you know someone who's interested in doing a PhD on Arabic translations of the Bible? The new #BibliaArabica long-term project is looking for candidates! (tbh, that would have been my dream position a few years back) Spread the word!

Big and very exciting news! We will soon have a long-term project in Munich @badw.de on the Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament #ArabicBible. Not only a wonderful topic, but the funding will enable otherwise impossible in-depth exploration.

"Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries" - the final work of the late Dr. Marilyn Heldman has been published today: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

The latest update now finds 198 Ge'ez manuscripts back online! Bravo @britishlibrary.bsky.social !

„Notwendig, nützlich, neu – #Langzeitforschung in Hamburg“: Unsere multimediale, interaktive #Ausstellung lädt ein, die Vielfalt der sieben Langzeitforschungsprojekte der #AdWHH zu entdecken: vom 16.10. bis 15.12.2025 im Ausstellungsraum der @stabihh.bsky.social. 👉 www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/pres...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Und wo ist der Flyer, der Männer auffordert sich nicht wie übergriffige Arschlöcher zu verhalten?

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Oh a tablet! So like an iPad? Cool. Makes sense. Laptops are so Babylonian.

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the 35 Ethiopic manuscripts microfilmed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, including Aethiop. 16 (HMML project number 24994), which is of particular importance to the study of the Ethiopic Bible. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

Excited to share the article that @mmonier.bsky.social and I wrote on the Introduction to the Gospels by ibn al-Assal and its Arabic and Ethiopic traditions 🤩 brill.com/view/journal...

“Global AI demand is projected to account for 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal in 2027, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of Denmark or half of the United Kingdom.” arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271

Am 17.09. werden auf dem Historikertag Überlegungen zur Reform der Personalstruktur an dt. Universitäten diskutiert. Wir freuen uns, dass auch die Fachverbände erkennen, dass es Reformbedarf gibt, v.a. im Hinblick auf die Situation von PDs, und sind gespannt auf die Diskussion.

A new, color, scan of the undeciphered scroll in the @transcrireada.bsky.social‬ collection was published online this month. The scans give a boost to a new effort attempting to decipher it: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... ‪

Jetzt ist das von @nkleinoeder.bsky.social und mir herausgegebene Sonderheft zu ‚Reassessing Germany‘s Colonial Economies‘ auch online verfügbar: biblioscout.net/journal/vswg...

On my way to Poland for this fun conference

I could not be happier - my good friend Bar Kribus is one of the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize!! 🤩 He works with so much passion and dedication and his research on the Ethiopian Jews has defind the field in recent years! I feel incredibly proud of his accomplishment!

youtube.com/@metmuseum?s... The Met has published a series of brilliant videos on various african cultural landmarks. First three are from Ethiopia 🤩

I am so happy to have been part of this again! Editing a volume is great - seeing it published is even better 🤩 This volume includes also a humble contribution by myself - an abstract of my dissertation 😎 doi.org/10.15460/aet...

Mamaaaaaaaa, meine Forschung hat es in den SPIEGEL Geschichte geschafft!* 💃🥳 (bzw. man hat mich sogar eingeladen, einen —langen— Artikel für die neue Ausgabe zum Mittelalter beizusteuern) *Für Bildungsaufsteiger besonders krasse Sache. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/a...

listen to some Ethiopian grooves from Addis! youtu.be/CGna2sP3fYc?...

It took seven years to make this available in open access form! But here is our book Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Oral_Traditi... Hope you enjoy it, read it share it! 🤩

Empress Zawditu (ዘውዲቱ) was one of the most important patrons for the churches of 20th-century Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, building both churches and libraries during her reign as the Queen of Queens (1916–1930 CE). Dr. Jeremy R. Brown shares some of her story: hmml.org/stories/seri...

www.instagram.com/reel/DHWfzDJ... She is talking about Slavery in Ethiopia and Eritrea and how it is still showing its effects till today! Important topic - and great colleagues have amazing research coming up to discuss this matter

Today is St George's day and here is St George slaying the dragon BL Or 516; አርባዕቱ ወንጌል The Four Gospels; 17th century; Ethiopia; f.99v

Its been a great 10 days 🤩 another publication has just come out! Dedicated to Prof. Dr. August Haffner, professor for Semitistik at Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social until he had to vacate the position in 1938 when Nazi regime came to power and forced him to leave.

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Highlighting the art of manuscript production in present day Addis

Publication day 🤩 I am excited to share the good news with you – our volume "Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia. Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers" has been published! It is open access and you can download and share it from DeGruyter's website. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Travelling to Munich 🤩🚅

𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 The Historische Kolleg is awarding up to 7 full-year fellowships for the Kolleg year 2026/27 (October 1 to September 30). The application deadline is April 30, 2025! More information at: www.historischeskolleg.de/fellowships/

It's out! Our new volume on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

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Pleased to share that an article by @sophiademue.bsky.social and me on a medieval introduction to the Gospels and Canons has been accepted by the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. The title and abstract are enclosed in the screenshot.

There is a scribal feature common to several religious traditions - to write the name of the devil/shaytan/diyablos upside down. I mentioned this for the Ethiopian&Eritrean tradition in my PhD thesis - here its ዲያብሎስ - Diyablos

Last week the #Vatican added 85 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... They include more Sistine diaries and 17th C papal letters, a Martyrology/Rule in Bari-type Beneventan, a pile of Ge'ez liturgy, many Humanist classics, incl. Bruni translations, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

news from Tigray are not good 🤨 This will only mean more suffering for the people

Deutschland im Wissenschaftsfreiheitsindex nicht mehr unter den TOP 10. Das sollte alle alarmieren, die für die plurale Demokratie eintreten. 👉Es giit auch, imho, die Ampel, insbesondere Stark Watzinger hat dem Wissenschaftsstandort D schweren Schaden zugefügt. /2 www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...

SUMMER COURSES available in the lovely city of Venice, for a number of "classical oriental languages": Coptic, Ethiopic (also Tigrinya), Armenian, Syriac, Demotic, Hebrew (etc.) www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home...

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Happy #WorldBookDay 📚 This tiny book dates from the early 16th century and is smaller than a modern postage stamp! See it on display in Gallery 53. 📚 Miniature book, 1512. Silver, silver-gilt, 3.8 x 2.8cm. WA2013.1.27

Christian Lindner hat es geschafft die FDP in dem Bundesland mit der größten Millionärsdichte in der Kategorie "Sonstige" verenden zu lassen, ich verneige mich ehrfürchtig

Mitten in Bergedorf ist im Jahr 1972 ein Objekt aus einer neuen Zeit gelandet - die Fachhochschule Bergedorf, ein herausragendes Beispiel des Brutalismus. #brutalsm Bergedorf www.denkmalverein.de/gefaehrdet/g...