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 goal to provide a forum for exchange regarding the opportunities, challenges, and successes experienced by scholars whose teaching responsibilities frequently span multiple disciplines.… Read more
Faculty Research
Faculty News: Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent presentation at the 10th Quadrennial Manichaean Studies Conference in Aarhus, Denmark
Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent presentation at the 10th Quadrennial Manichaean Studies Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. He presented the paper “Is there a Manichaean ‘Christology’? The Dangers of Looking at Manichaeism through the Lens of Church History.”
Abstract: Manichaean Studies originated as an adjunct of the study of Church History and Christian Theology, and at first relied entirely on polemical sources from the… Read more
Faculty News: Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions , on his recent publication!
Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent publication “Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the ‘Seduction of the Archons’ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth” in Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
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 W.… 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 form of an exquisite miniature paper codex, measuring 3.6… Read more