Dear colleagues and friends, Hope you are doing well! Please join me in welcoming a new member to the Song Yuan listserv, Tali Hershkovitz. Below please find Tali's self introduction. Welcome to our community! My name is Tali Hershkovitz. I am a rising fifth year PhD student at Brown University in the Religious Studies department, in the Asian Religious Traditions track. I am also participating in Brown's graduate certificate program for Gender and Sexuality Studies. I received my early academic training at BLCU (北京語言大學). I lived in China for about a decade (2006–2017), in Fuzhou, and then in Beijing. In 2017 I moved to the U.S. and completed my Master's studies in East Asian Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2018, I've been at Brown. I am currently working on my dissertation proposal, which will focus on women's religious places and spaces in the Song. My broad intellectual interests are women and gender in Chinese history, social history of women, women's religious practices, female soteriology in Buddhism and Daoism, and anomaly tales/tales of the strange (zhiguai 志怪). Sincerely, Ya Zuo Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies _______________________________________________