About

 

This is a website devoted to things I paint and draw. I have studied drawing under Yu Kemin (于克敏) at Yunnan Arts Institute (云南艺术学院) and painting under Stephan Balleux at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

I also write (poetry, fiction and academic prose). As a result, I have a few publications, most recently the book Lettere delle piante agli esseri umani (translated by Giovanni Agnoloni). I also have some academic degrees, most recently a PhD in philosophy from The University of Hong Kong. See  below for a selection.

For commissions and questions, please email me at hello[at]sanjasarman.com.

UPDATE: I will be on leave for much of the academic year 2023-2024!

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ACADEMIC DEGREES AND QUALIFICATIONS 

  • PhD in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong (2020). Title of Dissertation: Spinoza and the Inevitable Perfection of Being. This dissertation won the Li Ka Shing Prize for best PhD thesis.
  • Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the University of Hong Kong (2015).
  • Bachelor of Arts: Major in Literature, minor in ancient Greek, Uppsala University (2015). Title: Herdens tragiska bett: En undersökning av det tragiska ögonblicket i Nietzsches Så talade Zarathustra mot bakgrund av den tyska idealismens tanketradition.
  • Master of Arts in Theoretical Philosophy – Uppsala University (2014). Title: Actual Infinity in God and Creatures – A Leibnizian Inquiry. 
  • Bachelor of Arts: Major in Philosophy, minor in Latin – Uppsala University (2010). Title: The Role of the Absolute in the Philosophical Systems of Hegel and Kant.
  • International Baccalaureate, IB South, Stockholm (2006). 

AWARDS

  • Wenner-Gren postdoktorstipendium (2022-2024) for a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Department of linguistics and philology.
  • Panentheism and Religious Life Fellowship (2021).
  • Li Ka Shing Best PhD Thesis Prize for academic excellence (2018-2019).
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2015-2019).
  • Örstöms Scholarship for studies in ancient Greek and Latin (2008-2009).

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS 

SELECTED PROSE

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • “Spinoza’s Infinite Shortcut to Contingent Appearance” at Spinoza and Early Modern Philosophy: A Virtual Workshop from John Hopkins University (November 2022).
  • “Spinoza’s Negation Theory of Error and its Metaphysical Foundation” at Septième Séminaire de philosophie moderne à Bruxelles: “L’épistémologie de l’erreur à l’époque moderne”, Université Libre de Bruxelles (December 2019).
  • “Spinoza on Infinity and Contingency” at Department Seminar, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (January 2019).
  • “Spinoza and Leibniz on the Advantages of Having an Infinitely Unfamiliar Mind” at Seminario del Centro Interdipartimentale di studi su Descartes e il Seicento in collaborazione con il Centre d’études cartésiennes Paris-Sorbonne, Università del Salento, Lecce (March 2018). 
  • “Spinoza’s Dual Concept of Perfection” at Spinozanum Collegianum II, University of Groningen, Groningen (July 2017).
  • “Spinoza’s Theology of the Infinite and its Role in the Love of Fate” at Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy – The NYC Workshop, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem (June 2016).