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Kenneth Tam is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Queens, NY. His work often takes the form of video and sculpture and it's interested in reimagining the spaces and rituals that inform ideas about the male body and its performance. The work looks at ways in which hegemonic and normative forms of male subjectivity can be rearticulated to reveal spaces of intimacy vulnerability and even loss.

J.L. Abraham works by hand (printing and painting), works on paper (French sheets, Japanese rolls, machine made in America), and works through aggregation (of blocks, colors, methods, sheets). Though she often multiplies, she rarely duplicates.

In this talk, we'll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn't move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, and plot. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter's "The Fall-River Axe Murders," Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," and Nancy Hale's "The Earliest Dreams."

Join us for Kenneth Tam's talk, part of the Visual & Studio Arts Lecture series.

Learn more about Kenneth Tam's The Glass Ceiling, on exhibit at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center Heimbold Gallery, January 21, 2020 to February 23, 2020.

Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

The Translation Series returns with internationally recognized translator Sean Gaspar Bye talking about bringing The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch from Polish to English.

Emmy-nominated for Best Arts & Culture Documentary, The Price of Everything examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society—where everything can be bought and sold. Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers, and a rich range of artists, the film exposes deep contradictions as it holds a mirror up to contemporary values and times, coaxing out the dynamics at play in pricing the priceless. Following the screening, engage with a panel of art world insiders with Sarah Lawrence connections as they share their perspectives and experiences.

As the world reacts to the proliferation of the novel coronavirus, the Sarah Lawrence Pre-Health Community Group and Pre-Health Program are thrilled to welcome back to campus alumnus and leading epidemiologist Dr. W. Ian Lipkin ’74 for an evening of conversation. Dr. Lipkin will focus on his current role helping China respond to the coronavirus, his experience identifying and combating viral outbreaks around the world, and how his Sarah Lawrence education helped connect his passions and forge a trailblazing career in the medical field.

Aracelis Girmay holds a BA from Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. She is the author of Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and The Black Maria.

Released in 1972, Gerda Lerner edited Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, which chronicles 350 years of Black women's contributions to history, despite centuries of being enslaved and treated as property. It was one of the first books to detail the contributions of Black women in history. Revisiting this pioneering book, Tiffany LaTrice will discuss new methodologies to uncover, document, and write about Black women’s historical contributions and outline how she has leveraged her Women's History degree to champion stories, create programs and national movements around women's rights, equity, and representation in the fine art industry.

Essayist and creative nonfiction writer Clifford Thompson has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College since 2016. Hist latest book, What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues, was released in November 2019, and forms the basis for this evening's discussion.

Our laboratory studies transcriptional regulation that governs the interaction between viral infection and the development of cancer. In doing so, we can identify protein regulators of genome organization and chromatin essential for cellular immortalization. This basic science forms the foundation for our translational approaches using small molecule inhibitors as potential interventions against virus-associated cancer. Basically, we study large data sets to connect changes in gene regulation with proteins that may ultimately be the target of novel therapeutic strategies. This sometimes works. More often than not, the approach usually fails. Sometimes, however, we ignore big data and discover new treatments by reading a single paper and connecting basic concepts. We’ll discuss examples of both approaches to discovering new cancer drugs.

Sarah Peters' sculptures draw from diverse iconographic influences: from Assyrian antiquities, Greco-Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures, and Cypriotic portraits to early American folk art and early modernist figuration. Imagery of sex dolls, ventriloquist dummies, robots and aliens also come into play. Referencing antiquity and using the imagery of gods in a contemporary context enables her to explore themes ranging from power and authority to gender and psychology and allows her to question the politics of power and the authority of historical tradition.

“Lester is a ‘musician’s musician’ and the kind of piano player that jazz fans love to discover: a quietly brilliant mind that has been building his own unique voice and sound for decades, just barely outside the jazz spotlight...Lester’s playing is gentle and probing, yet solid enough to carry strong melodic lines. It’s subtly transportive. Listening to it, you’ll find yourself getting swept away without even realizing you’re moving.” from Brian Zimmerman, JAZZIZ.

On March 4, join us in celebrating Sarah Lawrence Giving Day, our special 24-hour fundraising effort to support scholarships for talented students, resources for our esteemed faculty, and the College’s one-of-a-kind education.

In late October 1920, investigator Addie Hunton “hurr[ied] along” her report to NAACP chair Mary White Ovington. With only days to go before the November presidential election, there was no time to spare. The Nineteenth Amendment was now on the books, but registrars in Norfolk, Virginia were refusing Black women who tried to register to vote. These women feared white reprisals if they challenged the officials, yet they freely told their stories of rejection and humiliation to Hunton, an NAACP representative who had traveled in from New York and who spent less than 48 hours in town. Why did they share such dangerous stories with a total stranger? Liette Gidlow unwinds this mystery by delving deep into the archives to explore the many ways African American women in the Jim Crow South fought for voting rights after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Her research finds that while a great many southern Black women were indeed disfranchised, a surprising number in fact succeeded in voting, and their successes, together with ceaseless agitation by those who remained disfranchised, transformed American politics for the next hundred years and ultimately helped elect Barack Obama, the nation’s first African American president.