Zsuzsanna Gulacsi: "The Pictorial Canon of a Silk Road Religion: Mani's Picture-Book and the Study of Manichean Didactic Art"

Date
Friday April 27th 2012, 7:30PM
Event Sponsor
Silkroad Foundation, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
Location
Building 250, Room 111 (EALC Reading Room), Main Quad
Zsuzsanna Gulacsi: "The Pictorial Canon of a Silk Road Religion: Mani's Picture-Book and the Study of Manichean Didactic Art"

Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, North Arizona University, Flagstaff

Speaker's Bio

Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi is a historian of Asian religious art.  She came to the U.S. from her native Hungary to do graduate work at Indiana University, where she received the Ph.D. in 1998.  She taught at Sophia University in Tokyo between 1999-2003, and joined the faculty of the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion at Northern Arizona University in 2003.  She has numerous publications on Manichean art.  Her current research encompasses early Manichean and Christian art of Syro-Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian Jewish Biblical narrative in light of Manichean and Buddhist analogies, and Mani's Picture-Book.