2012
6-7 July: International Workshop Architectures of Power in the Nile Basin and the Horn of Africa: From Ancient Times to the Present
7-8 June: Alessandro Bausi, Denis Nosnitsin and Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attend the workshop on digital manuscript cataloguing of the COMSt network in Copenhagen (with presentation by D. Nosnitsin)
28-29 April: International Workshop Saints in Christian Ethiopia: Literary Sources and Veneration of the ETHIO-SPARE project
2 April: Dr. Yemataw Wondies from Gondar University and University of Leipzig gives a talk on "Characterizing the Psychosocial Effects of Child Sexual Abuse in Ethiopia: Implications for Prevention and Rehabilitation" at HLCES
7-9 March: Alessandro Bausi attends the Workshop Medieval Cultures on the Web. Interoperability Through Text and Manuscript Databases in Florence
2011
8-9 December: Alessandro Bausi and Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attend the workshop Specific issues in Oriental philology of the COMSt network in Athens
14-15 October: Alessandro Bausi, Denis Nosnitsin and Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attend the workshop The Making of the Oriental Book of the COMSt network in Nice (with presentations by A. Bausi and D. Nosnitsin)
15-16 July: International Workshop Ecclesiastic Landscape of North Ethiopia: History, Change and Cultural Heritage of the ETHIO-SPARE project
13 July: Workshop Piracy Off Somalia
28 June: Alessandro Bausi delivers a public lecture in the framework of the series Stifter und Mäzene und ihre Rolle in der Religion: Von Königen, Mönchen, Vordenkern und Laien in Indien, China und anderen Kulturen
14 June: Alessandro Bausi, Denis Nosnitsin and Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attend the workshop Towards an ideal chapter on Oriental manuscripts cataloguing of the COMSt network in Frankfurt
6-13 June: Dr. Hanna Rubinkowska (Warsaw University) visits the HLCES and the AAI and presents two talks
May: the Coptic studies library of Prof. Tito Orlandi is now on the HLCES premises
2010
20 December: Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attends the workshop Conservation Studies on Oriental Manuscriptsg of the COMSt network in Istanbul
17 Dezember: public presentation of vol. 4 of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica at the HLCES.
26-27 November: Alessandro Bausi, Sophia Dege and Evgenia Sokolinskaia (HLCES) attend the workshop Book Materials in Oriental Cultures of the COMSt network in Pisa
25-26 October: Alessandro Bausi attends the workshop Textual Criticism of Oriental Manuscripts of the COMSt network in Leuven
October: conclusion of the works for vol. 4 of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica.
22-23 September: Alessandro Bausi and Denis Nosnitsin (HLCES) attend the workshop Cataloguing Projects of Oriental Manuscripts: Evolution of Descriptive Criteria of the COMSt network in Uppsala
23-24 July: Workshop organized by COMSt on "Digital Support for Manuscript Analysis" in Hamburg.
2009
1-3 December: opening conference of the COMSt project.
December: start of the Ethio-SPARE: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation, Research project funded by the European Research Council
2-5 November: participation of the HLCES Staff at the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Abeba
October: renaming of the Research Unit of Ethiopian Studies as Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
September: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi becomes Chair Professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg and head of the HLCES
June: launching of the Research Networking Project "Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies" (COMSt) funded by the European Science Foundation
March: inauguration of the new location of the centre at Rothenbaumchaussee 19
2008
November: the research unit moves to Rothenbaumchaussee 19
May: the retired Professor Helmut Ziegert announces to have discovered the palace of the Queen of Sheba at Aksum, Ethiopia. The Research Unit issues an official press release to deny any involvement with the affair.
25 January: public presentation of vol. 3 of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica at the Institute of Asia and Africa, University of Hamburg in the framework of the Millennium celebration.
January: publication of vol. 3 of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica.
2007
September: celebrations of the Ethiopian new year and the entry to the new millennium according to the Ethiopian calendar.
2006
4 January: public presentation of vol. 2 of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica at the Goethe Institut, Addis Ababa