All panels held at 180 Doe Library (*except where indicated)
Friday May 3, 10am12:00pm
Introductory Remarks
Sanjyot Mehendale, UC Berkeley
Changing Vocabulary of Manichaean Visual Syntax in Uyghur East Central Asia
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University
Manichaean Official Documents in their Central Asian Context
Adam Benkato, UC Berkeley
Manichaean Evidence for Kushan Buddhism
Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University
Friday, May 3, 1:303:30 pm
Buddhist Sogdian Interconfessional Space: Remarks from Art and Textual Evidence
Barakatullo Ashurov, Harvard University
Indo-Iranian, Perso-Buddhist, and Sino-Iranian Entanglements: Imaging Religion and Royal Power at the End of Antiquity
Matthew Canepa, UC Irvine
Itinerant Kingship, Buddhist Monasteries, and the Making of a Kushan Royal Cult
Sanjyot Mehendale, UC Berkeley
*Friday, May 3, 5:157:00 pm
SPECIAL EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH CAL PERFORMANCES AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
Morrison Room, Doe Library
Heroes Take Their Stands: Milestones on the Silk Road
Ahmad Sadri, Lake Forest College
Sug-e Siavosh (Mourning for Siavosh)
Soroor Ghanimati, UC Berkeley
Electra, a Sonic Heroine
Duncan MacRae, UC Berkeley
Saturday, May 4, 10:0012 noon
Wind and Fire: Some Shared Motifs in Indo-Iranian and Sino-Iranian Settings
Jenny Rose, Claremont Graduate University
Greek Helios or Indian Surya?: Evolution of the Sun Gods Iconography from India to Bamiyan and Dunhuang
Osmund Bopearachchi, UC Berkeley
Two Ascetics between Gandhara and Dunhuang and Back: Transformations in the Depiction of the Śyāmaand the Dīpaá¹kara Jātakas
Jessie Pons, Ruhr-University Bochum
Saturday, May 4, 1:304:00 pm
Recent Fieldwork at the Site of Kuh-e Khwaja, Sistan, Iran
Soroor Ghanimati, UC Berkeley
Khotan and Rawak Vihara on the Southern Silk Road, 3rd to 8th Centuries
Ulf Jäger, University of Leipzig
Non-Buddhist Religious Icons in the Mural Paintings of Early Buddhist Caves in Kucha and Dunhuang
Satomi Hiyama, Kyoto University
Iconography without Texts in Yulin Cave 3
Michelle McCoy, University of Pittsburgh
