Events

As President Biden takes office against the backdrop of a pandemic and recession, the new administration faces multiple challenges abroad, including from an increasingly capable, confident, and assertive China.

Dr. Spruill, lead consultant on the African American Heritage Trails project, will discuss how the general public can engage in preservation of local African American history.

In this talk Dr. Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics at Yale University, will introduce the Higgs, discuss the discovery, and talk about our next steps.

Join us to kick-off our Sarah Lawrence Giving Day celebrations with a “Ted Lasso” virtual watch party followed by a Q&A with showrunner Bill Lawrence.

Join Dr. Heather Davis, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the New School for an exploration of the way plastic has transformed the material world due to its longevity and range, and has transformed our understandings and expectations of matter and materiality.

Join our panelists as they talk about their experiences growing up in Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, Bronxville and the Bronx. Through stories, they will share the challenges and opportunities they had in school and in their communities.

Join faculty members for brief, lightning talks on their approach to teaching and research to address issues of Climate Justice.

As part of Sarah Lawrence's campus-wide Justice series, join recent MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza, in conversation with faculty members Una Chung (Global Studies, Media Studies, Women's History), Heather Cleary (Spanish), and Kate Zambreno (Writing) to discuss her recent collection, "Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country," which explores Mexico's epidemic of disappearances and femicide. 

Dr. Bettina L. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom and intersectional justice, so we all can move beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. 

Join Dr. Christian Braneon, an urban climate expert and scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York for a discussion on how the current moment offers a unique opportunity to imagine alternative futures in which policies, infrastructure, governance, and value systems are recalibrated with equity and sustainability at the center.

A continuation of our series presented by “The Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment,” join us for students' presentations of their Climate Justice conference projects from varied disciplines across the college.

Join Dr. Michel Gelobter P’24 for a discussion on the history of climate justice as both a concept and a movement, particularly with respect to President Biden’s administration and more comprehensive, youth-led actions.

Arietta Slade ’73 Ph.D. is an internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher will center on reflective parenting, supporting the development of attachment and symbolization in young children and their caregivers.