Events

The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College is pleased to invite you to join us on Zoom for our September community reading. 

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Sarah Lawrence's Dance/Movement Therapy online information sessions provide prospective students with the opportunity to connect directly with the Program Director, Elise Risher, to learn more about our program and the Sarah Lawrence community. We will discuss internship opportunities, career pathways, application requirements, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions. 

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Maria Mayer’s path to her 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics was very different than that taken by most of her fellow laureates. Blessed with a highly privileged education in Germany and supportive family and colleagues, her career was impacted when she faced misogynistic academic cultures after emigrating to the United States. For a time, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, even as she was working on a “supersecret” project: the atomic bomb. Later, she developed a theory to explain the “magic numbers” that predict which atomic nuclei will be especially stable. In this seminar, Dr. Scott Calvin will examine Mayer’s unconventional path, her role at Sarah Lawrence, and the theory that earned her a Nobel Prize.

Please join in on a discussion of the recently published book Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France (Univ. of California Press, 2022), with its co-authors, Robert Desjarlais (SLC Anthropology Faculty) and Khalil Habrih (University of Ottawa).  Robert and Khalil will discuss the book with four faculty members  at Sarah Lawrence College: Parthiban Muniandy (Sociology), Elias Rodriques (Literature), Robin Starbuck (Filmmaking), and Elke Zuern (Politics)  - as well as all those attending.

In Traces of Violence, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.

Sponsored by the Donald C. Samuel Fund for Economics and Politics and the Anthropology Department.

Sommer Browing is a poet, writer, curator, and artist. Her latest book is Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). She's the author of two other collections of poetry, Backup Singers and Either Way I'm Celebrating, as well as the artist book, The Circle Book (Cuneiform Press), the joke book, You're On My Period (Counterpath), and others. In 2017, she founded GEORGIA, an art space in her garage in Denver. Her poetry, art writing, and visual art have appeared in Hyperallergic, Lit Hub, Bomb, jubilat, Chicago Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a librarian.

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.