Events

A variety of online programming from the Office of Admission.

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.

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This seminar will explain how studying zebrafish may contribute to the development of therapies for hearing loss.

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.

Join us for an evening of conversation with legendary Village Voice writer Vivian Gornick and poet Anthony Madrid.

Join us (virtually) as Sarah Lawrence first-year students read their latest written works.

Learn more about Sarah Lawrence College's genetic counseling graduate program.

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.

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.

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).

Singer-songwriter Diane Cluck discusses three main elements of her craft, sharing tools and ideas for connecting the writer self to/through the universal.

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.

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.

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.

Featuring Dr. Gabriella Contardo, Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute, NYC.

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.

Writer Nelly Reifler has been a mamber of the Sarah Lawrence faculty since 2002.

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.​

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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.

Learn more about Sarah Lawrence's Dance/Movement Therapy master's program.

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

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Join us for an evening with writers Carolyn Ferrell, Lise Funderburg, and Clifford Thompson.

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.

Register for the webinar

President Judd leads a conversation with Douglas Brinkley for a historian's perspective on this year's election.