Professor of Art History Dr. Alexandra Carpino recently organized the workshop Etruscology in America with Bridget Sandhoff (University of Nebraska Omaha) for the 23rd Annual Meeting for the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2023. The workshop focused on Etruscology in American classrooms and field schools with the… Read more
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Faculty News: Congratulations to Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, on her recent invited lecture at the tenth meeting of the International Association of Manichaean Studies!
Congratulations to Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, on her recent invited lecture at the tenth meeting of the International Association of Manichaean Studies in Aarhus in August 2022. The Carlsberg Research Foundation at the University of Aarhus, Aarhus (Denmark) sponsored the conference.
Abstract: The Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book in the collection of the Asian Art Museum, Berlin (III 53)—also known as the BBB (M801a) after… Read more
Faculty News: Professor of Art History Dr. Alexandra Carpino presented at the Archaeological Institute of America on March 27, 2022
Professor of Art History Dr. Alexandra Carpino presented at the Archaeological Institute of America on March 27, 2022. Her talk was titled “Maternal Undress in Etruscan Mirror Iconography” and was part of the public lecture series in honor of Professor Larissa Bonfante by the Long Island chapter of the AIA.
Congratulations to Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent publication, A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book
Congratulations to Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Professor of Art History and Asian Studies on her recent publication! She coauthored the book A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book about the earliest known pre-Islamic Iranian manuscript, (Brepols 2022). The surviving 48-page portion the manuscript was once part of an Uygur-era (762-1124 CE) Manichaean liturgical book (written in Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian languages) issued in the… Read more
Faculty News: Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi gave a public invited lecture at The Baker Museum in Naples in Florida in February 2022
Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi gave a public invited lecture at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida titled “Zoroastrian, Buddhist, & Manichaean Art across the Silk Routes: Divine Guides of the After Life” on February 15, 2022. Her 75 minute talk focused on mediaeval Sogdian, Uygur, and Chinese images of the Maiden of Light, Jesus, and Avalokiteshvara and was part of the event Artis—Naples: Lifelong Learning Series on Asian Art and History (https://artisnaples.org/education/lifelong-learning).
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Faculty News: Lecturer in Public Humanities Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges presentation at the conference Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2022 on Friday Feb. 11, 2022
Lecturer in Public Humanities & Museum Studies and art historian Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges presented the paper, “Flesh Rendered on Gilded Pages: Representations of Meat in Late Medieval Hunting Manuals” at the conference Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2022: The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food” at the Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on February 11, 2022. Her paper explored the illuminations of the medieval ritual of unmaking, which involved the dismembering of the… Read more