Dear Colleagues I just received a message from another wonderful new member, Olga. "My name is Olga Panova, I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). I have been a visiting scholar at IFA NYU between 2015-2016, and now I am currently based in Berkeley, CA. I am writing dissertation on a social history of Song dynasty art, focusing on the biographies artists active during the late 10th and forst half of the 11 century. My research interests include Song dynasty's writings on painting, stydies on urban culture in Kaifeng, social history of Song art." Note that she has posted her Russian-language papers on https://independent.academia.edu/OPanova. Sincerely, Reiko Shinno, Ph.D. Secretary, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies Professor, Department of History Chair, Transnational Asian Studies Committee University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (715)836-4995 shinnor@uwec.edu<mailto:shinnor@uwec.edu> http://uwec.academia.edu/ReikoShinno