September 2020
Tuesday 29 Sep
Virtual Events for Prospective Undergraduate Students
A variety of online programming from the Office of Admission.
Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics Prospective Student Webinars
Off Campus Online
/ Tuesday
Please join us for a webinar where we will discuss our genetic counseling graduate program. You will be able to talk with and hear from genetic counselors in the field as well as our current students. There will also be an opportunity to participate in Q&A about the graduate application process for our program.
Hair Cell and Interneuromast Cell Regeneration in the Zebrafish Lateral Line with Dr. Aaron Steiner (Science Seminar Series)
Off Campus Online
/ Tuesday
This seminar will explain how studying zebrafish may contribute to the development of therapies for hearing loss.
Wednesday 30 Sep
In Conversation: Anaïs Duplan and Janaka Stucky
OFFCM Online
/ Wednesday
Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020) is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anaïs Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Join Anaïs Duplan in conversation with Janaka Stucky, founder of Black Ocean.
October 2020
Thursday 1 Oct
In Conversation: Vivian Gornick and Anthony Madrid
OFFCM Online
/ Thursday
Join us for an evening of conversation with legendary Village Voice writer Vivian Gornick and poet Anthony Madrid.
Tuesday 6 Oct
First-Year Student Reading
Off Campus ONLINE EVENT
/ Tuesday
Join us (virtually) as Sarah Lawrence first-year students read their latest written works.
Wednesday 7 Oct
Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics: Prospective Student Webinar
OFFCM Online
/ Wednesday
Learn more about Sarah Lawrence College's genetic counseling graduate program.
Mitchell Jackson Nonfiction Reading
OFFCM Online
/ Wednesday
Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award, among other prestigious honors, and his debut novel The Residue Years received wide critical praise.
Thursday 8 Oct
Craft of Writing Talk with Mitchell Jackson: Beginnings
Off Campus Online
/ Thursday
Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award, among other prestigious honors, and his debut novel The Residue Years received wide critical praise.
Saturday 10 Oct
Economics, Epidemic & Election (Panel Discussion)
Off Campus Online
/ Saturday
A faculty panel discussion co-hosted by the Economics Reviews of Sarah Lawrence College, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University.
Wednesday 14 Oct
Craft of Writing Talk with Brian Evenson
OFFCM Online
/ Wednesday
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com, 2016).
Thursday 15 Oct
Craft of Writing Talk with Diane Cluck: The Body as Editor, Nature as Informant, Levels of Meaning
Off Campus Online
/ Thursday
Singer-songwriter Diane Cluck discusses three main elements of her craft, sharing tools and ideas for connecting the writer self to/through the universal.
Mothering, Reimagining & Starfishing: A Radical Way Forward with Jodie Patterson (Wright Lecture)
Off Campus Online
/ Thursday
In this year's installment of The Child Development Institute's annual Wright Lecture, activist Jodie Patterson introduces the concept of front-loading Mothering as a proactive strategy for building better, stronger, more cohesive communities.
Gerda Lerner Lecture Series: (Dis)loyal Translations: Knowledge Production and Cooptation in the Andean Highlands, 1996-1999
Off Campus Online
/ Thursday
Emilie Egger is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on eugenics and family planning in Latin America and the United States. Her dissertation follows the aftermath of a family-limitation campaign in Peru during the 1990s in the context of the global shift toward socially conservative reproductive policy after decades of population-control efforts.
Tuesday 20 Oct
Craft of Writing Talk with Lauren Wilkinson ’06 – Character-Driven Plot
Off Campus Online
/ Tuesday
Because students often express the concern that overemphasizing plot will rob their work of literary merit and focusing too much on character will make their story boring, in this talk we'll explore a few approaches to balancing plot and characterization.
Deep Learning & Astrophysics (Science Seminar Series)
Off Campus Online
/ Tuesday
Featuring Dr. Gabriella Contardo, Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute, NYC.
Wednesday 21 Oct
In Conversation: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and President Cristle Collins Judd (Justice Series)
Off Campus ONLINE EVENT
/ Wednesday
Join President Cristle Collins Judd for a conversation with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, author, sociology professor, a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and a contributing editor of The New Republic and of ESPN's The Undefeated website.
Thursday 22 Oct
Generative Writing Session with Nelly Reifler MFA '96
OFFCM Online
/ Thursday
Writer Nelly Reifler has been a mamber of the Sarah Lawrence faculty since 2002.
Saturday 24 Oct
MFA in Dance Virtual Information Sessions
OFFCM Online
/ Saturday
Sarah Lawrence's MFA Dance online information sessions provide prospective students with the opportunity to connect directly with the Program Director, John Jasperse, to learn more about the program and the Sarah Lawrence community. We will introduce you to the program's multidisciplinary curriculum and show how our individualized approach to education can support your artistic development. There will also be an opportunity to discuss admissions requirements and ask any questions you may have.
Monday 26 Oct
Craft of Writing Talk with Jay Deshpande – Sun Tunnels: On Land Art, Prosody, and the Borders of the Poem
Off Campus Online
/ Monday
As poets we think a great deal about the creative process, but we often overlook the strange relationship between poem-making and time. This talk will consider temporal context to reexamine how a poem exists in time and how a reader can exist inside a poem.
Tuesday 27 Oct
Dance/Movement Therapy Information Session
OFFCM Online
/ Tuesday
Learn more about Sarah Lawrence's Dance/Movement Therapy master's program.
The Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship Celebration, October 2020
OFFCM Virtual Event
/ Tuesday
Please join The Writing Institute for a celebration of The Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship. We will announce the 2020 Gurfein Writing Fellows and honor last year's recipients and their mentors:
Tiffany Dugan and mentor Marian Thurm
Lea Geller and mentor Mary LaChapelle
Wednesday 28 Oct
Writing About Family: In Conversation with Carolyn Ferrell '84, Lise Funderburg, and Clifford Thompson
Off Campus Online
/ Wednesday
Join us for an evening with writers Carolyn Ferrell, Lise Funderburg, and Clifford Thompson.
November 2020
Wednesday 4 Nov
Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics Prospective Student Webinars
Off Campus Online
/ Wednesday
Please join us for a webinar where we will discuss our genetic counseling graduate program. You will be able to talk with and hear from genetic counselors in the field as well as our current students. There will also be an opportunity to participate in Q&A about the graduate application process for our program.
Friday 6 Nov
Douglas Brinkley: A Historian’s Look at the 2020 Election
Off Campus Online
/ Friday
President Judd leads a conversation with Douglas Brinkley for a historian's perspective on this year's election.