Events

Learn more about Sarah Lawrence College's summer programs for pre-college students.

The Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio is the second visiting ensemble of the Jean Wentworth Music Residency, established by the Wentworth family in memory of revered concert pianist and music faculty member emerita Jean Wentworth.

In the contemporary moment, transgender life is widely associated with structural oppression, rejection, and violence. Despite this, the work of trans artists and writers is often joyful and liberatory, more invested in pleasure than loss. Looking at some of that work, we’ll consider what unique forms joy takes in trans lives and trans art, and how those forms might lead us toward emergent thought, insight, and resistance in our own writing.

The Writing Institute's Wrexham Road Reading Series brings together writers from within and outside the Sarah Lawrence College community to share their work.

Since 2003, the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival has presented emerging and established poets from across the country alongside current Sarah Lawrence undergraduate and graduate student readers. The weekend includes craft talks, panels, book signings, receptions, open mics, and more. All events are free and open to the public.

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

Join us for Graduate Visit Day: Children, Childhood, and Education to learn more about the MA program in Child Development, the MS Ed program in the Art of Teaching and the special resources that both programs enjoy on campus.

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

Rogério Boccato Quartet will play music from their newest album, No Old Rain.

How often have you heard another writer sneer at the concept of literary writing as cathartic or, God forbid, therapeutic? How often have you agreed? Too often we take for granted the false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A literary work's aesthetic or intellectual merit does not preclude catharsis, nor concerns of domestic, corporeal, or "confessional" nature. Why shouldn't a literary examination of the navel approach profound universalities, be intellectually astute, politically relevant, and aesthetically great? During this talk we will take a long hard look into our own navels, interrogate our own inherited biases and consider why "personal" writing might be exactly what we need right now.

Melissa Febos MFA '08 is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), and a forthcoming second essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury 2020). The inaugural winner of the Jean Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary, her work has recently appeared in Tin House, Granta, The New York Times, Vogue, and The Believer. She is an Associate Professor and MFA Director at Monmouth University and lives in Brooklyn.

Join Samuel Stein ’05 for a discussion about the state and future of our cities at a time of global concentration of capital into urban real estate. Stein will present some of the ideas that animate his new book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.

Melissa Febos MFA '08 is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), and a forthcoming second essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury 2020).

Join The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College's community of writers for a student reading and celebration of recently published works.

A day of family fun hosted by and benefiting the Students for Students Scholarship Fund.

Join The Writing Institute and its community of writers for a celebration of The Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, where the 2019 Fellows will be announced.

Featuring Sarah Lawrence College Pyshics faculty member Alejandro Satz.