Events

The application deadline for the Child Development Masters program at Sarah Lawrence College is next week. Do you have questions? If so, Tricia Hanley, director of the program, will be holding open office hours on Thursday, January 11 from 2:00-4:00pm. Please drop in at any point for a quick one on one to ask your questions.
RSVP here.

Day 2 of an Educational Series hosted by the Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Program in Human Genetics with the theme "Beyond the Diagnosis: The Therapeutic Odyssey". This session will focus on the patient experience with rare diseases that have an available treatment. REGISTER HERE. 

This four-session participatory workshop is for teachers of all grades, when we, and those we teach, are given the opportunity to explore, the many qualities and marvels of knowing, that is the natural world, through our own ability to imagine, to play, and express the very wonderment of our shared lives - within, all that is alive.

This series is being underwritten by The Touchstone Center for Children. Sarah Lawrence is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 6 CTLE hours for this program. Registration Fee: $20.00 for the four sessions.

How can work be generous to its characters but not stupidly innocent, not ignorant of human nature? This talk will look at examples by Anton Chekhov, David Malouf, Colm Toibin, Edward P. Jones, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Joan Silber ’67 is the author of nine books of fiction. The most recent is Secrets of Happiness. Her novel, Improvement, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her previous book, Fools, was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Size of the World was a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and Ideas of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. She is also the author of The Art of Time in Fiction. She lives in New York, taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.

Demographic studies suggest that the audience for true crime is primarily comprised of women. In I’ll Be You, we will address the theory that the genre offers itself as a reflective surface in which we are invited to empathetically over-identify with both victimization and violence. We will look at our fascination for sordid stories, what these histories emotionally satisfy, and how this type of information can be channeled into our work.

Alissa Bennett's essays and short fiction have appeared in publications including Paris Review, The New York Times, Vogue, Ursula and Art Forum. Bennett co-hosts the podcast The C-Word with Lena Dunham, and is currently completing a script about Edith Wharton. She is a teacher at Yale School of Art.