This is a Virtual Event via Zoom.
Zoom Link: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94689909734

Join us for an engaging dual book workshop featuring scholars Anand Venkatkrishnan and Pierce Salguero as they share their works-in-progress on transformative biographical writing. This interactive session invites students to explore innovative approaches to biography through a trans-Asian feminist lens.

Featured Speakers:
Anand Venkatkrishnan
Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia
Divinity School, University of Chicago
Presenting Searching for Sarasvati, an alternative history of American Indology that focuses on those written out of its past and present. Engaging with classical Sanskrit literature, gender and sexuality studies, African American history, and Asian American studies, Venkatkrishnan explores whether how you live matters to how you read.

Pierce Salguero
Professor of History and Health Humanities
Program Chair of Multidisciplinary Studies and Health Humanities
Penn State University, Abington College
Presenting Joan of Art, an intellectual and spiritual biography of historian Joan Stanley-Baker (徐小虎, b. 1934). Known as the “fearless truth-teller of the art world” for exposing famous Chinese paintings as forgeries, her life embodies contradictions between authenticity and reinvention. This biography weaves together feminism, cross-cultural translation, sensory connoisseurship, and spiritual longing on a global scale.