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
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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
Faculty News: Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods gave a presentation for AZ Humanities’ “Climate Conversations” on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 6:00 p.m. MST Arizona.
Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods gave a presentation for AZ Humanities’ “Climate Conversations” on Thursday, Feb. 10, entitled “Hippie modernism: literature, counterculture and transforming our natural world.” You can read more about the presentation and a view a recording here.
Faculty News: Congratulations to CCS Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent publication!
Congratulations to Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi on her recent publication, “A Latin Pictorial Witness to Tatian’s Diatessaron” in Vigiliae Christianae 75 in October 2021! Dr. Gulácsi examines the unsuspected Syriac Christian ties of a famous set of illustrations in… Read more
Faculty News: Lecturer in the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Diana Coleman presented at the 7th World Parliament of Science, Religion, and Philosophy hosted by the MIT World Peace University on October 4, 2021
Congratulations to Lecturer Dr. Diana Coleman who presented on Monday, October 4th, at the 7th World Parliament of Science, Religion, and Philosophy hosted virtually by the MIT World Peace University in Pune, India. She was part of a panel titled “The Right to Peace- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Her talk put the aspirational UDHR and the treaties and human rights laws it has inspired-the Core Human Rights Instruments-in tension with the human… Read more