Events

This event is open to prospective students interested in the MFA Theatre program.  Hosted by Program Director, Caden Manson and Program Manager, Lauren Reinhard with a current graduate student. Participants will get an overview of the program, opportunities they can expect as SLC Theatre Grad students, and have an opportunity to ask questions of Caden, Lauren, and a current grad student. Register here.

Join Director Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Assistant Director Maddie Mori, and current students on campus in the Slonim House for coffee, pastries, and a casual Q&A about the Sarah Lawrence MFA Writing Program, followed by an optional tour of campus by current students. Register here.

There seems to be more and more focus on how fast we can get children to achieve the next milestone or move to the next stage, without enough reflection on the goals of that race. What is being lost in the process? What does it mean to be a child today? What do we conceive childhood to be and how do we keep hold of these core values?

The purpose of this conference is to create a space to address these important questions in light of some of the pressing concerns of our moment in time. By doing so, we hope to reaffirm the importance of childhood in its own right. 

REGISTER HERE. SLC faculty, staff, students and alumni contact cdi@sarahlawrence.edu for a discount.

There seems to be more and more focus on how fast we can get children to achieve the next milestone or move to the next stage, without enough reflection on the goals of that race. What is being lost in the process? What does it mean to be a child today? What do we conceive childhood to be and how do we keep hold of these core values?

The purpose of this conference is to create a space to address these important questions in light of some of the pressing concerns of our moment in time. By doing so, we hope to reaffirm the importance of childhood in its own right.

REGISTER HERE. SLC faculty, staff, students and alumni contact cdi@sarahlawrence.edu for a discount.

Join us for the Athletics Hall of Fame Induction at the Campbell Sports Center. The Athletics department will be inducting Dr. Clarion Johnson ’72 (Basketball), Graham Gilleran ’17 (Basketball), Kevin McCarthy ’02 (Equestrian), and Joseph Iannotti (Coach/Staff, 1982-2020) into the Gryphons Hall of Fame! REGISTER HERE. 

Join us for Homecoming and cheer on the Men's and Women's basketball teams! The Homecoming games begin with the Women's team playing John Jay College of Criminal Justice, followed by the Men's team playing Vassar. Celebrate at a special reception for alumni and families. REGISTER HERE. 

Please join Rue Beckerman, Director of the Art of Teaching Program and Tricia Hanley, Director of the Child Development program for a virtual Open House, where they'll share more about our Children, Childhood and Education graduate offerings at Sarah Lawrence College:

-The Art of Teaching (MSEd)
- Child Development (MA)
- Dual Degree in Child Development and Social Work (MA/MSW)
- Dual Degree in Art of Teaching and Child Development (MSEd/MA)

Register here.

Sometimes there is a fine line between fact and fiction. Yet where exactly that line lays is subjective — And what is objectivity anyway? Literary conventions — narrative form, character development, rich descriptions— are assumed methods that writers have used to construct histories. But how do these methods actually shape the histories being told? How have historians used creative writing to augment a sense of history among readers? Lucy Sante, celebrated writer and thinker, knows something of these dynamics. Throughout her oeuvre, Sante has defied literary conventions by blending writing styles and offering creative approaches to historical writing that convey panoramic textures of lives past and present. 

Join us for a reading of Sante’s most recent work, I heard Her Call My Name (Penguin-Random House, 2024). It is a personal history of gender transition and much more. Following the reading there will be a conversation about history and the writing life the author and Ryan Purcell, (SLC History). 

Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy Award (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships. She recently retired after twenty-four years teaching at Bard College.

Dr. Trent Masiki, Director of Black Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University, will give a talk on Afro-Latin memoirs based on his most recent book, The Afro-Latin Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism, focusing especially on the works of Marta Morena Vega and Raquel Cepeda.