Events

This virtual information session gives you the opportunity to learn more about the MFA Dance program and the admissions process. You will meet the Program Director, John Jasperse and there will be time to ask questions. Click here to RSVP. 

Join the Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership at Sarah Lawrence College for this virtual seminar as we discuss the critical needs developing within the genomics workforce that hinder society’s ability to truly benefit from precision medicine. Our panelists, with unique perspectives from across the genomics ecosystem, will share their experiences and outline the emerging challenges that require our immediate attention.

Genre fiction such as speculative fiction, horror, and mystery are noted for their escapism, but they can address pressing societal issues in ways that ignite empathy, challenge perspectives, and inspire action.

Richie Narvaez is a Nuyorican author and educator. His first book, Roachkiller and Other Stories, won the Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology/Short Story Collection. His novel Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco won both the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award in 2020. His other books include Hipster Death Rattle and the collection Noiryorican. His work has appeared in Latine Lit, Long Island Noir, Mississippi Review, Storyglossia, Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, and Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, among others. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and in 2022 received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. The proud son of Puerto Rican parents, Narvaez was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Bronxville.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

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. RSVP here.

This craft talk will discuss how form and language can enlarge the territory of the articulable in the context of several poems from The Rupture Tense. How do we represent the staggering force of a vast and recently unearthed photographic archive? How does one capture the complex entanglements of inherited memory? What tools do we have in limning experience of interwoven temporalities that resist clear narrative shape? Grounding this discussion will be a reading of several poems from The Rupture Tense, and a longer reflection on how these poems found their shape, their animating energies, and the textual correspondences behind them.

Jenny Xie was born in Anhui, China. She is the author of Eye Level and The Rupture Tense, both of which were shortlisted for the National Book Award. Her honors include recognition from the Academy of American Poets, the Vilcek Foundation, New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. She is assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College and resides in New York City.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

The Faculty Spotlight is an event series that recognizes and celebrates new faculty work in any medium. The event is presented in the form of a live podcast moderated by library podcast host Tim Kail. This past year we were honored to have Margarita Fajardo, Victoria Redel, Roy-Ben Shai and Gillian Adler discussing their new books. We saw increasing student attendance with each event and thoughtful Q&A. With the start of the new semester we’re thrilled to have SLC faculty Jamee Moudud to discuss his chapter in Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology. 

Moudud is a board member of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law and a co-founder and on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. He is also on the editorial board of the journal, Money on the Left. As a contributor to the contemporary Law and Political Economy intellectual movement, his work focuses on understanding the nature of corporations and money and the ways in which constitutional clauses structure socioeconomic inequalities.

Learn more about the Genetic Counseling Master's degree program at Sarah Lawrence College. Established in 1969, the program was the first of its kind in the United States. It remains the largest graduate program in genetic counseling in the world. RSVP here.

There are many good poems. There are, however, very few perfect poems. While we understand perfection is subjective, why is Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s Song a perfect poem among poets? In this craft talk, Nicole Sealey examines Song, its leaps, sounds, images, digressions, syntax, and embellishments. Understanding the forces behind this beloved poem can give us strategies for writing our very own perfect poem.

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. An excerpt from her forthcoming collection, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her honors include a 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry London, and The Best American Poetry (2018 and 2021). She was the Executive Director at Cave Canem Foundation from 2017-2019. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. An excerpt from her forthcoming collection, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her honors include a 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry London, and The Best American Poetry (2018 and 2021). She was the Executive Director at Cave Canem Foundation from 2017-2019. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.