Events

Join SLC podcast host, Tim Kail, Library Director Mustafa Sakarya, and guest Ryan Purcell (SLC History) as they discuss the music scene of 1970s New York, and more. 

Memory is the writer's raw material and the very foundation of identity. But do we know anything, truly, about how memory works? This craft talk will look at how novelists, neurologists, and historians have understood memory as practice and as process, and what they might teach us about working with its vagaries.

Parul Sehgal is a critic-at-large at the New York Times. Previously, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker and a book critic at the Times. She has won awards for her criticism from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the New York Press Club, and the National Book Critics Circle. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join us online on May 1st at 5:00 pm EST for our Writing Institute Community Reading, with our featured instructor & reader Myla Goldberg! Sign up to read or come out to cheer on your fellow writers.

This reading is open to current or former Writing Institute students. Readers have 3 to 4 minutes to read (or 650 words). Interested in reading? Sign up at the link below! Readers will be confirmed before April 29th. RSVP HERE. 

Join students and faculty for our annual screening of student films at the Picture House in Bronxville. Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts faculty Robin Starbuck, Damani Baker ’96, Jazmin Lopez, Misael Sanchez, Rona Mark, Scott Duce, Lorrel K Manning, Kyle Hittmeier, Willy Hartland and Daniel Schmidt have selected films created by students during the academic year. Connect with fellow members of the Sarah Lawrence community and support emerging filmmakers. A reception hosted by the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts faculty and the Office of Alumni Relations with our student filmmakers at Pete’s Tavern in Bronxville will precede the screening. Advance registration is required.

REGISTER HERE.