Events

Day 2 of an Educational Series hosted by the Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Program in Human Genetics with the theme "Beyond the Diagnosis: The Therapeutic Odyssey". This session will focus on the patient experience with rare diseases that have an available treatment. REGISTER HERE. 

This four-session participatory workshop is for teachers of all grades, when we, and those we teach, are given the opportunity to explore, the many qualities and marvels of knowing, that is the natural world, through our own ability to imagine, to play, and express the very wonderment of our shared lives - within, all that is alive.

This series is being underwritten by The Touchstone Center for Children. Sarah Lawrence is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 6 CTLE hours for this program. Registration Fee: $20.00 for the four sessions.

How can work be generous to its characters but not stupidly innocent, not ignorant of human nature? This talk will look at examples by Anton Chekhov, David Malouf, Colm Toibin, Edward P. Jones, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Joan Silber ’67 is the author of nine books of fiction. The most recent is Secrets of Happiness. Her novel, Improvement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her previous book, Fools, was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She is also the author of The Art of Time in Fiction. She lives in New York, taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.

Demographic studies suggest that the audience for true crime is primarily comprised of women. In I’ll Be You, we will address the theory that the genre offers itself as a reflective surface in which we are invited to empathetically over-identify with both victimization and violence. We will look at our fascination for sordid stories, what these histories emotionally satisfy, and how this type of information can be channeled into our work.

Alissa Bennett's essays and short fiction have appeared in publications including Paris Review, The New York Times, Vogue, Ursula and Art Forum. Bennett co-hosts the podcast The C-Word with Lena Dunham, and is currently completing a script about Edith Wharton. She is a teacher at Yale School of Art.

Two years after the apocalypse, two sisters sing, play games, and sulk in an underground bunker. When one sister finds evidence of life on the outside, both struggle with the possibility of leaving the bunker, and whether or not the world they fled is worth returning to. This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading Series. Register here.

Join us for this brief virtual information session for practicing teachers with initial certification and degrees in early childhood and/or childhood seeking to add an extension certificate in Early Childhood Students with Disabilities through our new three-course, 17-credit program. Meet the program director and get your questions answered! REGISTER HERE.