Events

Be informed—hear the candidates discuss the issues. Audience questions welcome.

President Cristle Collins Judd will discuss the value of the liberal arts, the role of arts and humanities in civil society, and the pressing issues facing higher education today.

Dr. Joshua Bennett is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College, and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—a National Poetry Series selection and finalist for an NAACP Image Award—as well as Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Penguin Books will publish his second collection of poems, OWED, in 2020.

A reading with commentary by Suzanne Jill Levine, introducing new fiction by Cristina Rivera Garza and Guadalupe Nettel.

This talk will explore the causes, implications, and consequences of false confessions, and will feature two exonerees—Marty Tankleff and Korey Wise (Central Park Five defendant)—whose lives were altered by this phenomenon.

Learn about the admissions process for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics  at Sarah Lawrence College.

Please join Sarah Lawrence College and its Dance Program as we celebrate Rose Anne Thom’s decades long dedication and devotion to her students and colleagues, and the depth and consistency of her influence on the community.

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” famously wrote Gertrude Stein. Stein is just one of the many writers who have employed repetition to myriad memorable effects in their  writing. But is repetition simply repeating a word or a phrase or a sentence or a structural element? In our session, we will examine repetition as both a philosophical and craft approach.

From different disciplinary perspectives, this panel will explore the social tensions and political fractures that underpinned a 50-year conflict between the Colombian state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that have far from subsided despite a cease fire and peace agreement.

In a spirit of honesty, vulnerability and humor, we will look at the supposed rules and advice we’ve received for writing and dispel the mythology of the precious artist of the singular path.

Learn about the admissions process for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics  at Sarah Lawrence College.