Events

Join us to celebrate pride with acclaimed authors Edgar Gomez, Amelia Possanza and more on June 20th! This signature event at YPL Riverfront includes a tour of the gallery exhibit Radical Joy: Queer Expressions of Joy followed by a guest author reading, Q & A and reception for mingling. Hosted by the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers Pride, Yonkers Public Library & the Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library. REGISTER HERE. 

Join us every Wednesday to learn about a different aspect of the profession and how to apply to genetic counseling programs. You will have the opportunity to hear from genetic counselors working in the field, as well as current students and alumni. Register here.

The Writing Institute's Wrexham Road Reading Series brings together writers from within and outside the Sarah Lawrence College community to share their work. Our intent is to engage the widest spectrum possible of the literary community we're fortunate to both support and be supported by.

Guest readers have included authors Bethany Ball, Victoria Buitron, DeMisty D. Bellinger, Leland Cheuk, Sonya Chung, Sayantani DasGupta, Melissa Faliveno, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Elaine Sexton among others. We are honored to have such an esteemed group of writers at these unique Writing Institute events and we look forward to continuing to offer a wide range of themes on current trends and issues in our world.

Readers to be announced.

Precision medicine is lifesaving. But why don’t all people receive it when they need it? The Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership at Sarah Lawrence College has connected with many leaders who identify disparities in precision medicine access and use. This is especially true in the area of oncology - where precision medicine is widely recommended, yet there is a documented lack of utilization.

Join us for part two of the Path to Precision Health Virtual Seminar Series, More Than Access: What Patients Want from Precision Oncology, as we explore patient perspectives on the state of precision health. Each panelist, a healthcare leader with lived experience in navigating precision oncology, will share their journey to highlight the gaps that exist and offer their recommendations on how to close them.

REGISTER HERE. 

The Writing Institute Community Reading series returns! All are welcome at this virtual open mic.

Thursday July 25th, 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm EST on Zoom

REGISTER HERE. 

Whimsical Water Day will feature food, music, games, and prizes. Attendees can even suit up in waders and fish in the Hudson with a seine net!

Join us for the inaugural event in the Polarization series, a conversation between prominent scholar Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Sarah Lawrence president Cristle Collins Judd.

Fiction can encourage empathy without condoning violence. In this lecture, Marc Anthony Richardson will discuss humanizing "monsters" for strong creative writing and an honest understanding of ourselves, as well as read an excerpt from his forthcoming novel poem, The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast. According to the Jungian concept of the shadow, "bad" qualities are often suppressed, and as Alan Watts stated, "To the degree that you condemn others, and find evil in others, you are to that degree unconscious of the same thing in yourself." What are we pretending not to know? Labeling occurs out of confusion. But could the Sanskrit saying "tat tvam asi," or, that thou art, be true? In essence, could everyone be us? "The devil is the belief in duality," to quote Ernest Holmes, and, if this is the case, the monsters from Milton's Paradise Lost to Shelley's Frankenstein to the Gospel of Judas will continue to have something indispensable to teach us.

Marc Anthony Richardson is an artist and novelist from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat, his autobiographical novel, won an American Book Award and a Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Messiahs, a speculative novel, was a fiction finalist for the Big Other Book Award. The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast, a novelistic poem, is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. Richardson also received an award from Creative Capital, grants from PEN America and the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, a Hurston/Wright Foundation fellowship, and residencies from Art Omi and the Vermont Studio Center. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Callaloo, Black Warrior Review, and many others. He received his BFA from Antioch College and his MFA from Mills College at Northeastern University, and he has taught at Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania. He was recently a 2022 Andrew W. Mellon Scholar-in-Residence at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, and a 2024 Artistic Practitioner Fellow at Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Please join us for conversation and coffee with Faculty member and Mellon Public Humanities Assistant Professor, Emily Bloom, on her new book, I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art. Emily’s deeply personal memoir takes us on a journey into the depths and demands of parenting in the modern age. We are honored to recognize and celebrate this wonderful and important new work.

In recognition of faculty scholarship and creativity, Faculty Spotlight is an event series that celebrates the creation of significant new work by faculty in all mediums. Recorded as a podcast before a live audience in the Library and moderated by podcaster Tim Kail, each Spotlight brings our community together around a shared appreciation of our faculty. Episodes are published on the library website and preserved in the College Archives as a permanent record of faculty voice and scholarship. This event is generously co-sponsored by the Office of the President.