ARCHIVED: Campus Events Open to the Public from 2011-2012

The Thomas H. Wright Lecture, inaugurated in 1995, honors Thomas H. Wright's dedication to Sarah Lawrence and his long service on the Board of Trustees. An endowment, established by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, funds the lecture. 

Mary Hebron, MA Free and Open to the Public

Mary Hebron, MA is a founding teacher and Associate Director of the Art of Teaching Graduate Program at Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to her administrative role, Ms. Hebron has taught in the program since its inception in 1985, teaching courses in Observation and Documentation, Language and Literacy, and Emergent Curriculum.

To support her work in teacher education, Ms. Hebron stays close to children and teachers, observing and advising on a regular basis in urban schools in New York City, as well as in Westchester and Connecticut. In this way, the graduate program remains current with regard to the practices, politics, and issues that arise within the profession. Ms. Hebron has also developed a Saturday Seminar Series – The Art of Teaching: Teaching & Learning for the Classroom Professional – which invites alumnae/i of the Art of Teaching program, their colleagues, and their host teachers into a collaboration of ongoing professional development.

The philosophic ideas and descriptive practices on which Ms. Hebron has formed her pedagogy were developed at the Prospect Center and School in North Bennington, Vermont. She served as a board member on the Prospect Board for many years and will be contributing to the third Prospect book in the Teachers College Press Practitioner Inquiry Series. 

Ms. Hebron holds most dear the time she spent teaching children. Working alongside graduate students and following them into their classrooms has allowed her commitment to children to be sustained.

• 2010 When Parents, Educators, and Clinicians Collaborate: Classrooms for All Learners A Panel Discussion with Stephanie Petrillo Gould, MEd, CSP; Maggie Hoffman; and Cassandra Hyacinthe, MEd Jan Drucker, PhD, moderator
• 2009 Consuming Kids: Reclaiming Childhood from Media and Corporate Marketers Susan Linn, EdD, Co-Founder and Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and Associate Director of the Media Center of Judge Baker Children's Center Watch video»
• 2008 Where da Heat Go: Social Justice, Agency & Science Angela Calabrese Barton, PhD, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
• 2007 Children and Nature Design Principles David L. Sobel, MEd, Director, Teacher Certification Programs; Co-director, Community Based School Environmental Education Program, Antioch New England Graduate School
• 2006 Open Pandora’s Box: Curiosity in the Classroom Susan Engel, PhD, Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College
• 2005 Building a Community/Building a School Nancy Mann, MA, Principal, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School
• 2004 Reflections on Teaching: Relationships, Possibilities, and Power Jane Andrias, MA, Leader in New York City's progressive education movement
• 2003 Nurturing the Remarkable Powers of Children William Crain, PhD, Professor of Psychology at The City College of New York
• 2002 Processes of Change in Schools Tom Roderick, MEd, Executive Director of Educators for Social Responsibility, New York City Metropolitan Area
• 2001 Pathways to Literacy: Non-Standardized Approaches to the Enhancement and Assessment of Literacy Across the Curriculum Frank Smith, PhD, Writer and Researcher, British Columbia, Canada
• 2000 Rethinking Standards and Assessment Harriet K. Cuffaro, EdD, Professor Emerita of Education, Bank Street College of Education and Staff Developer at the City and Country School, New York City
• 1999 Play and Learning Celia S. Genishi, PhD, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• 1998 A New Look at Families, Schools and Child Development James P. Comer, MD, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center
• 1997 Rethinking Teaching: What Schools Can and Should Be Linda Darling-Hammond, EdD, Stanford University
• 1996 Conflict as a Fact of Life: Families, Schools, Communities Regina Arnold, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
• 1995 Family/School Partnerships: Working Together for Children Patricia Carini, Founder of Prospect School and the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research, North Bennington, Vermon

Are you interested in returning to school? Please join us at our next Open House to learn about Bachelor's and Post-Bachelor's degree programs.  Applications are still being accepted for fall 2011 admission.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

12:30-2:30 p.m.

45 Wrexham Road

Bronxville, NY 10708

RSVP: cce@sarahlawrence.edu

Paintings by Nicoletta Barolini '83 on the role of employment and work structures within society - in the gallery, Esther Raushenbush Library. 

Right-to-Write Facilitators read from the poetry of men incarcerated at the Westchester County Correctional Facility.  The poems were written during a five week series of workshops hosted at teh penitentiary during the summer. 

Contact:

Jason Beck, Community Partnerships

jbeck@sarahlawrence.edu; 914-395-2573

(musical traditions from Ethiopia, Congo and Guinea)

Jonathan T. King and Andy Algire, Directors

Women's Volleyball

"First Match of the Season"

SLC vs Manhattanville College

"Come Cheer Your GRYPHONS"

The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College will host an open house on Saturday, September 10 from 11a.m. -1p.m at 45 Wrexham Road. Prospective students will have the opportunity to meet with faculty members, learn about the fall noncredit workshops, ask questions, and meet with other students. Refreshments will be served. To RSVP, email cce@sarahlawrence.edu.

Screening of "My Perestroika" followed by conversation with the director, Robin Hessman

My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times – from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.

The film interweaves their contemporary world with rare home movie footage from the 1970s and ‘80s in the USSR, along with official Soviet propaganda films that surrounded them at the time. Their memories and opinions sometimes complement each other and sometimes contradict each other, but together they paint a compl

Robin Hessman graduated from Brown University with a dual degree in Russian and Film. She received her graduate degree in film directing from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (with a “red diploma” of honors). She received an Academy Award® in 1994 – with co-director James Longley – for their student film, Portrait of Boy with Dog. During her eight years living in Russia, Robin worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as the on-site producer of Ulitsa Sezam, the original Russian-language Sesame Street.

The event is sponsored by the Margot C. Bogert Distinguished Service chair.  

What can

change in a day?

everything.

Discover how climate change is affecting every one of us.

JOIN USon Sept. 15 for 24 Hours of Reality. A presentation delivered in 24 locations around the world sponsored by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

View the live stream at www.climaterealityproject.org. Go to our website. Tell your friends. Join our watch party. And help others learn what can change in a day.

Live streaming screening followed by Faculty Panel Discussion and Reception

FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION featuring SLC Faculty members Ray Clarke, Josh Muldavin and Marilyn Power

Flat Lands: Paintings by Nicoletta Barolini '83 on the role of employment and work structures within society. http://www.slc.edu/?eid=6055

Invitation to a Special Preview of Sailors & Dreamers

Music by Chester Biscardi

Lyrics by Shirley Kaplan

Commissioned by the Library of Congress

3:00 PM

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Reisinger Concert Hall

Free Admission

The program includes Ushio Torikai’s Trio for Oboe, Violin, and Violoncello.

Reservations recommended: (914) 395-2693 Free for Sarah Lawrence Students, Faculty, and Staff (others, $10).The 18 chapters of Gastropolis: Food and New York City discuss the rich interplay between tradition and change, individual and society, identity and community; immigration, amalgamation, and assimilation in New York through food. Co-editor Annie Hauck-Lawson will present an overview of the book, as well as refer to her chapter in it, My Little Town: A Brooklyn Girl’s Food Voice. Annie Hauck-Lawson is an urban agriculturalist, Master Composter, and owner of Brooklyn Mompost. She is part of an unbroken, four-generation family chain who grow, gather, prepare, consume, sell, and compost food in Brooklyn.

Nutritional Parenting Series: Food Education with Marti Wolfson 

Thursday, September 22, 9:30 a.m. Location: Wrexham Living Room $40 

It’s back-to-school time, so turn up the heat on your nutrition know-how. Learn how to improve the quality of your diet and your children’s diet. We’ll give you the basics on stocking your pantry with healthy grains, fats, and proteins, and you’ll discover how to make simple substitutions and prepare healthier versions of your family’s favorite foods. 

Full time Sarah Lawrence employees and students receive a special discount of 50% when space is available. 

Your friends can register online at www.sarahlawrence.edu/adultprograms

 If you have questions, please email specialprograms@sarahlawrence.edu 

Come out and enjoy one of the sharpest, funniest, most original spoken word poets on earth, Beau Sia. Featured in the films Slam, Slam Nation, and Rachel's Getting Married, Beau Sia has won a Tony on Broadway and toured the globe with Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam. Now see him let loose at Sarah Lawrence. Students Bekkah Olson, Kittie Walsh, Arhm Choi, Bettina Harriman, and Kyla Marshell will open up. With a special appearance by literature professor Alwin Jones. Hosted by Jeffrey McDaniel.

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement,the Office of Student Activities, and the Writing Program

Excited about food? Or avocados at Stop & Shop? Or why you are truly a poor college student after grocery shopping? All these questions and MORE will be answered at the: SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE FOOD SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM Sponsored by: Geography Coalition; Departments of: Geography, Economics, Politics, Global Studies and Environmental Studies; Office of Student Affairs, Student Senate, Office of the Dean of College and the Mellon Foundation. Come find out about the factors affecting world food prices, the implications of global finance systems, mushrooms, where your New York City restaurant food comes from, and even how you can live cheap and eat well! This Colloquium will address what makes our food system tick. From Politics to Soil, the Colloquium will be sure to wet your appetite. Join us! Donnelley Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center 10 am - 6 pm (Registration starts at 9:30am) There will be awesome speakers, discussions and food! Speakers include: Prof. Joshua Muldavin Prof. Charles Zerner Prof. Marilyn Power Shayna Cohen (Grow NYC/Wholesale Greenmarkets) Jordan Colon (EAT Greenpoint) Sam Lipshultz '09 (Real Food Challenge) Meghan Roguschka '12 and more! And keynote speaker: Prof. LUCY JAROSZ (University of Washington, Seattle) Come one, come all! All academic persuasions welcome! RSVP at: food_dev_slc@googlegroups.com Facebook: Sarah Lawrence Food Colloquium Lunch will be provided

The Shona sound of Zimbabwe Live! at Sarah Lawrence College

The mbira, made of two dozen metal keys mounted on a wood soundboard inside a resonating calabash gourd and played with the thumbs, produces music that combines entrancing melodies with invigorating polyphony and polyrhythms.

Caution Shonhai is an mbira player from Nyamweda a rural area of Zimbabwe renowned for its mbira players and makers. Following Shona traditions passed on for generations in his family, Caution is a traditional healer, herbalist, and the medium of his great-grandfather's spirit, allowing him to play in the wonderful style of this great mbira player grandfather. An international performer with CDs published in the United States, Australia, and Israel, Caution enjoys sharing Shona traditions including music he holds sacred (mbira, singing, drumming, hosho rattles), dance, and culture. Berkeley's Erica Azim fell in love with Shona mbira music when she first heard it at the age of 16. In 1974, she became one of the first Americans to study mbira in Zimbabwe, and her teachers have included many of Zimbabwe's top mbira masters past and present. Erica currently records, performs, and leads mbira workshops throughout the U.S. and directs the non-profit organization MBIRA, which provides financial support to Zimbabwean mbira players and instrument makers.

This is an informational session geared especially toward poetry students interested in publishing opportunities.  Speakers include SLC alums Sampson Starkweather and Hila Ratzabi.  Sampson Starkweather is the founding editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press.  He is also the author of Self Help Poems, City of Moths, The Heart is Green From So Much Waiting, and The Photograph. Hila Ratzabi is an award-winning poet whose essays and articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Forward and more.  Her poetry has been published in the Cortland Review, Coal Hill Review, and many more.  She also co-hosts the Perfect Sense Reading Series at Cornelia Street Café.  Everyone is welcome to this event.  Refreshments will be served.  Co-sponsored by the Office of Career Counseling.

The Theatre Program's FIRST LOOK: READINGS OF NEW PLAYS BY STUDENT PLAYWRIGHTS presents AFTER CLASS, a reading of a new play by Jithendra Seneviratne, directed by Rebecca Stuart. AFTER CLASS explores the dangers of conformism through multiple lenses. Worlds collide as a college student is forced to choose between loyalty and liberty. Following the reading, please stay for a discussion with the playwright, moderated by Stuart Spencer. The cast features Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Howard Jackson, Youn Jung Kim, Charlotte Long, Lila Mensing, Kat Norcutt, Julianna Rusakiewicz, Jasen Vita, and Corbin Went.

Journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts her family's harrowing experience with anorexia, and relates in chilling detail her daughter Kitty's journey from near starvation, to renewed health.  Harriet tells the story of how she, her husband, and her other daughter helped Kitty recover.  It's a story about an ordinary teenage girl who accidentally went down the wrong path to anorexia and about her slow, painful climb back to health. 

Anti-Social Music and Friends present some anti-social noises by SLC Music faculty member, Pat Muchmore

Anti-Social Music and a friend or two will play several compositions by Dr. Patrick Thomas Thomas More Muchmore: SLC music theory and composition teacher extraordinaire.  There will be pieces for cello, violin, piano, trombone, clarinet, electronics, alto saxophone, clarinet and bari saxophone--all played by only four individuals.  It's sure to be fun for the audience, young and old alike, and deeply nerve-wracking and fraught with potential embarrassment for the composer.

Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America

Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais are co-authors of Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America. This book explores how the Millennial Generation will change the way America lives and learns, works and plays, votes and governs itself. Their previous book Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics was named a  New York Times favorite book. They are also fellows with NDN and the New Policy Institute.    

Poetry Reading by Stacy Gnall

Stacy Gnall's first book, Heart First Into The Forest, was recently published by Alice James Books.

An alum of Sarah Lawrence (class of 2005), Gnall studied with Thomas Lux, Victoria Redel, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Matthea Harvey. She has an MFA from University of Alabama and is now getting her PhD from USC in California. The reading and craft discussion is part of Jeffrey McDaniel's Living Poets class; if interested, please arrive on time and sit in rows 5, 6, or 7.

In times of crisis, such as war and natural disaster, women and girls face unique hardships, including increased vulnerability to rape, trafficking, exploitation and domestic violence, all of which are frequently overlooked in relief and recovery planning. Juliana Konteh, Director of the Women in Crisis Movement in Sierra Leone, and Savithri Wijesekera, Executive Director of Women in Need in Sri Lanka, will speak about their organizations’ work in addressing the special needs of women and girls. Reception in the Heimbold lobby starting at 4:45; event begins promptly at 5:30.

The Barbara Walters Gallery  at SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE presents Works by John O’Connor & Michael Vahrenwald Opening Reception: October 4, 5-7pm October 4 – October 27, 2011 Faculty members John O’Connor and Michael Vahrenwald, will be exhibiting in the Barbara Walters Gallery.

Everyone seems to know what Film Noir is, but scholars and critics cannot agree on any definition. Some go so far as to insist that there is no such thing.

Sarah Lawrence College Emeritus Faculty William Park returns to campus to discuss the various theories of film noir, define the genre, and explain how film noir relates to the style and the period in which it was created.

Sarah Lawrence College Emeritus Faculty William Park is theauthor of the recently published What is Film Noir, received his AB degree from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Columbia. After teaching at Hamilton College and Columbia, in 1962 he joined the Faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where, with Wilford Leach, he founded the program in film studies. He now resides in Santa Cruz, California

Are you ready for a heated competition with letters galore? Join us for the 3rd annual SLC Spelling Bee - an exciting tradition sponsored by SLAC. Come for a fun night with your fellow classmates, faculty and staff members. Get ready for an evening of suspense. All Spelling Bee participants will receive incredible prizes! Sign-ups for students, faculty and staff who wish to participate in the competition will be available outside the Student Affairs Office on Monday the 26th of September. Everyone is welcome to come and watch! For more information, contact SLAC@gm.slc.edu.

Join Sarah Lawrence College Women's History Program in celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt’s birthday and commemorating her connection to Sarah Lawrence College with a lecture by Brigid O’Farrell, author of She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker. 

Brigid O’Farrell is an independent scholar whose research and writing has focused on employment equity, especially for women in nontraditional jobs. She has traveled from factories in New England to fire and police stations in the Southwest, from child care programs in the Midwest and Alaska to union meetings across the country. A sociologist by training, she delves into labor history to better understand the issues and barriers confronting today’s workers. O'Farrell is currently a lecturer and director of the project "Using History Today" at Mills College in Oakland CA. She is also affiliated with the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University.  

New York University Silver School of Social Work Information Session

Find out how you can earn your Master of Social Work degree from NYU with the convenience of taking classes at our Westchester Campus here at Sarah Lawrence College.  We offer the flexibility of daytime, evening, and Saturday classes with both full-time and part-time options.

Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

Herding Donkeys tells the improbable tale of the grassroots resurgence after the 2004 elections that transformed the Democratic Party from a lonely minority to a sizable majority. It chronicles the inside story of Howard Dean's visionary yet deeply controversial fifty-state strategy, charting his unpredictable journey from insurgent presidential candidate, to front-running flameout, to chairman and conscience of the Democratic Party in an unexpected third act. Ari Berman reveals how the Obama campaign built upon Dean's strategy when others ridiculed it, expanding the ranks of the party and ultimately laying the groundwork for Obama's historic electoral victory-but also sowing the seeds of dissent that would lead to legislative stalemate and intraparty strife.

Revelatory and entertaining, in the vein of Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus and Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, Herding Donkeys combines fresh reportage with a rich and colorful cast of characters. It captures the untold stories of the people and places that reshaped the electoral map, painting a vivid portrait of a shifting country while dissecting the possibility and peril of a new era in American politics.

Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Editor & Publisher and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.

East Yonkers neighborhood association’s debate will be in the Reisinger Auditorium, Sarah Lawrence College, Monday, October 17 beginning at 7:00 p.m. Invited are candidates for Yonkers Mayor and 5th Yonkers City Council District.

Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester.

For directions or more infomation, contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412.

You Are Invited To a Special Evening…Two People, Three Hands, Four Eyes...One Voice

Meet Neil Selinger through his stunning perceptions of a life course that was unexpected, unwelcome and amazingly transforming. During the last ten months of hislife, his body immobilized by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) this retired 57-year-old lawyer and writer showed whatone man could do to tell his story. Selinger, who developed ALS just as he was beginning a second career as a writer, lost his speaking voice and his ability to move. But he relied on computer-assisted technology and the commitment of Dr. Dana Gage to craft his words into an inspiring and thoughtprovoking book and series of essays. A physician and a Master’s Candidate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, Gage was the perfect collaborator. Meet Dr. Dana Gage on Tuesday, October 18 and share in this amazing collaborative experience. Dr. Gage will talk about their work together and read from Selinger’s essays about living with ALS. This special evening is sponsored by the joint efforts of the MAC Angels Foundation, the Westchester End of Life Coalition, the Health Advocacy Program at Sarah Lawrence College, the Writing Institute at SarahLawrence College and the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

Admission is free and open to the public; however, pre-event registration is required as space is limited. To register, go to www.MACAngelsevents.org. Event contact: JBuyon@MACAngels.org or 914.637.7010

For directions to Sarah Lawrence College, contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412.

Sean Thomas Dougherty: poetry reading and craft talk

Sean Thomas Dougherty  is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Sasha Sings The Laundry Line (Boa Editions) and Nightshift Belonging to Lorca, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Known for his electrifying performances, he has toured extensively across North America and Europe. Note: this event is part of Jeffrey McDaniel's Living Poets lecture class. Visitors are welcome if they arrive on time.

Sarah Lawrence College Fall 2011 Science Seminar Series

Forecasting Locust Swarms:  The United Nations' Early Warning System in Africa and Asia

A presentation by Keith Cressman, Chief Officer, U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization

The Desert Locust is the oldest and most feared migratory pest in the world, plaguing farmers in Africa and Asia since Phaoronic times. Under optimal conditions, locusts increase rapidly and form swarms. A single swarm, larger than New York City, can contain billions of insects, migrate across continents, and eat enough food for 2,500 people in one day. Once a plague starts, it can take several years and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to an end. The United Nations largest agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), operates a 24/7 early warning system that monitors the global situation and alerts locust-affected countries and international donors. Keith Cressman, the FAO Senior Locust Forecasting Officer based in Rome (Italy), will present an overview of the system and the various technologies used to combat this ancient pest that remains with us today.           

Lunch provided!

From Art to Landscape:  A talk given by W. GARY SMITH, award winning landscape architect and visual artist. Reception with light refreshments and Q&A to follow lecture, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Slonim Living Room.

While each region has its own special character, a unique sense of place, all places share a basic visual vocabulary of shapes, patterns, and forms—and it’s quite a simple vocabulary, with variations on a rather small set of components including “spiral,” “mosaic,” “serpentine,” “radial,” and “natu- ralistic drift.” In this presentation Gary Smith will illustrate each of these patterns with images from nature and gardens, and show how you can use artists’ ways of seeing and recording visual information to develop your own personal expression in garden design, reflecting the sense of place in the region where you live.

Free and open to the public. For more information or directions, please contact Office of College Events 914-395-2412.

Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presented by the Mellon Environmental Studies Planning Group

An artist and landscape architect who celebrates the connections between people and plants, W. Gary Smith combines art and horticulture to explore eco- logical design and artistic abstraction. Current work includes projects at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. His recently completed work includes the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway, NC, the Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird John- son Wildflower Center, conservatory gardens at Callaway Gardens in Georgia, and the Wister Rhododendron Garden at Tyler Arboretum in Pennsylvania.

From Art to Landscape:  A talk given by W. GARY SMITH, award winning landscape architect and visual artist. Reception with light refreshments and Q&A to follow lecture, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in Slonim Living Room.

While each region has its own special character, a unique sense of place, all places share a basic visual vocabulary of shapes, patterns, and forms—and it’s quite a simple vocabulary, with variations on a rather small set of components including “spiral,” “mosaic,” “serpentine,” “radial,” and “natu- ralistic drift.” In this presentation Gary Smith will illustrate each of these patterns with images from nature and gardens, and show how you can use artists’ ways of seeing and recording visual information to develop your own personal expression in garden design, reflecting the sense of place in the region where you live.

Free and open to the public. For more information or directions, please contact Office of College Events 914-395-2412.

Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presented by the Mellon Environmental Studies Planning Group

An artist and landscape architect who celebrates the connections between people and plants, W. Gary Smith combines art and horticulture to explore eco- logical design and artistic abstraction. Current work includes projects at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. His recently completed work includes the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway, NC, the Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird John- son Wildflower Center, conservatory gardens at Callaway Gardens in Georgia, and the Wister Rhododendron Garden at Tyler Arboretum in Pennsylvania.

From Fukushima to Indian Point:  A Report from the Field 

A Lecture by Dr. Valerie Kuletz

Open to all students, the public, and faculty Japan’s tragic earthquake and tsunami initiated a triple nuclear power reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi power plant, contaminating ocean, air, soil and people with radiation, requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents that continues today. More than six months later scientists still find radiation levels increasing with time, making control of the “event” impossible to date. This talk questions the silence surrounding the Fukushima catastrophe and examines what it means for all of us as it calls attention to our own nuclear power landscape at home. Against the backdrop of Fukushima, this lecture provides a cartography of “hotspots”-- not in Japan but in the United States--including the  controversial site of Indian Point, in order to initiate a debate on the potential of a similar scenario occurring in the U.S.  Questions concerning aging containment materials, decaying infrastructure, and the relicensing of old nuclear plants known to be structurally compromised should be at the top of U.S. energy, security, health, and environmental policy agendas, but they are not.  This lecture presents a profile of the situation that calls into question why comparative analysis and discussion are not openly addressed, as the U.S. continues to pursue what it calls its “Nuclear Renaissance.” Of particular concern are new climate disturbances creating contexts for which U.S. nuclear power plants were not built--with levels of intensity that our structures cannot withstand. Current seismic activity escalates concerns, making comparisons with Fukushima essential. Both scenarios have compelled “nuclear communities” to speak out, revealing past breakdowns at local facilities not previously identified to the public Valerie Kuletz is the author of the prize winning environmental ethnography Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American Southwest (Routledge) and former Ciriacy-Waintrup Fellow in Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kuletz is a Robert J. Lifton Fellow. This event is sponsored by the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professorship in Environmental Studies and the Marilyn Simpson Trust

At 89 years old, Betty Tisdale is still saving lives and making futures possible. She is responsible for the creation of dozens of orphanages, schools, and libraries around the world, and has been fighting all her life to ensure the health, freedom, and happiness of underprivileged orphans. Her organization, H.A.L.O. (Helping and Loving Orphans) is so successful because her volunteers and donors can directly witness the results of their efforts, something so rare of charities today. Still operating from the basement of Betty's cozy house in Seattle, this tiny organization continues to accomplish enormous goals. Betty has traveled all the way to New York to tell her amazing story and to share with you her most recent endeavors.

Join us for a conversation with this feisty mover and shaker. We will screen a short 15-minute documentary that describes how Betty first started this work and open it up to an informal Q and A. Refreshments will be provided.

 Come get inspired!

Fall 2011 Science Seminar Series

"What is the Philosophy of Mathematics, and What Should it Be?"

A presentation by Bonnie Gold, Professor of Mathematics, Monmouth University

There are significant differences between mathematics and its fellow sciences. Other sciences determine the truth of a conjecture by experiments; in mathematics, we use proof. The subject matter of other sciences is clearly concrete, part of our physical world. Most people view this as not true of mathematics. As a result, there are significant differences between the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science. Bonnie Gold will discuss some of the questions that have been considered in the philosophy of mathematics, some that haven't been discussed much but should be, and some particular questions of interest.

Lunch provided!

THE NEW YORK CONSORT OF VIOLS in FINE COMPANIONS Four viols, a viola d'amore and a quinton will play some of England's most celebrated music, a variety of compositions from the recent past, and a little-known but beautiful quartet by Ottorino Respighi (famous for "The Pines of Rome".)

Monica Youn: poetry reading and craft talk

Monica Youn is the author of two books of poetry, including Barter (Greywolf) and Ignatz (Four Way Books), which is a series of poems loosely based on the mouse character from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s-30s. Ignatz was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. Note: this event is part of Jeffrey McDaniel's Living Poets lecture class. Visitors are welcome if they arrive on time.

Monica Youn: poetry reading and craft talk 

Monica Youn is the author of two books of poetry, including Barter (Greywolf) and Ignatz (Four Way Books), which is a series of poems loosely based on the mouse character from George Herriman’s Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s-30s. Ignatz was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. Note: this event is part of Jeffrey McDaniel's Living Poets lecture class. Visitors are welcome if they arrive on time.

Sarah Riggs is a poet, translator and visual artist born in New York. She has lived in Paris since 2001 where she is an integral member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change, an online magazine devoted to literary translation, and the director of Tamaas, a non-profit arts organization. In 2009, she began teaching for New York University in Paris. She is the author of Waterwork (Chax Press 2007), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling Press 2010), and Autobiography of Envelopes (forthcoming Burning Deck Press).

Omar Berrada is a writer, translator and cultural curator. He grew up in Casablanca and now lives in Paris. Between 2004 and 2007, he was a producer for French National Radio and hosted La Nuit la poésie and Lumières d'août at France Culture. He also hosted talks and conferences at the Centre Pompidou between 2006 and 2009 and curated the 2008 Salon du Livre in Tangier. He currently directs the library and translation center Dar al-Mamûn in Marrakesh.

Sponsored by Babel, the Languages and Literature Faculty Group, and the Margot C. Bogert Distinguished Service Chair.

Alone Together: Cyberspace/Cybersolitudes

We live in a world of machine-mediated relationships on networked devices.  As we instant message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude. These days, technology substitutes for direct face-to-face connections with people. Across the generations, we would rather text than talk.  Often we are too busy communicating to think, to create, and paradoxically, too busy communicating to connect with the people who matter.

Sherry Turkle is a professor, author, consultant, researcher, and licensed clinical psychologist who has spent the last 30 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT.  Her most recent book is Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other.

Five New York women gather to knit.  Two men appear determined to unnerve them.  As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart.  It’s a ferocious battle of the sexes and a contemporary comedy of manners.  The Theatre Program presents LOOSE KNIT by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Roxy MtJoy, featuring Jesse Heffler, Finn Kilgore, Emma O'Connor, Madalina Ripanu, Shay Roman, Mariah R. Smith, and Shayna Strype.

Seats are limited, please contact the office of college events at 914-395-2412 to reserve your seat. 

Five New York women gather to knit.  Two men appear determined to unnerve them.  As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart.  It’s a ferocious battle of the sexes and a contemporary comedy of manners.  The Theatre Program presents LOOSE KNIT by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Roxy MtJoy, featuring Jesse Heffler, Finn Kilgore, Emma O'Connor, Madalina Ripanu, Shay Roman, Mariah R. Smith, and Shayna Strype.

Seats are limited, please contact the office of college events at 914-395-2412 to reserve your seat. 

Five New York women gather to knit.  Two men appear determined to unnerve them.  As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart.  It’s a ferocious battle of the sexes and a contemporary comedy of manners.  The Theatre Program presents LOOSE KNIT by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Roxy MtJoy, featuring Jesse Heffler, Finn Kilgore, Emma O'Connor, Madalina Ripanu, Shay Roman, Mariah R. Smith, and Shayna Strype.

Seats are limited, please contact the office of college events at 914-395-2412 to reserve your seat. 

The Writing Institute is proud to host a Faculty Reading. Faculty members who will be reading from the work include John Simon, Marek Fuchs, Pamela Sneed, Patricia Dunn, Elaine Sexton and Steve Schnur. We hope you join us! Light refreshments will be served.

Opening reception of commemoration events including “Roads to Equality” art and poetry exhibition, which will run throughout the month of November – Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Seating is limited.  Please contact the Office of College Events  at (914) 395-2412 or by email: collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu by October 28 to reserve a seat.

November 1 - 30 Art Exhibit will be on display in Barbara Walters Gallery

November 1 - Film: Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson Opening of Art Exhibit

November 2 - Lecture by Mark Warren

November 3 - Personal accounts of Freedom Riders/spoken word

Seating is limited.  Please contact the Office of College Events (914) 395-2412 or by email: (collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu) by October 28 to reserve a seat.

.The Donald C. Samuel Fund for Economics and Politics Series:

A Diversity of Diversities—Rethinking Diversity in the Liberal Arts

 Fire in the Heart:

White Activists and Racial Justice Since the Freedom Rides

 by   

Mark Warren

Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides of 1961:

Reflecting on Liberty, Democracy and Freedom in America 

November 1-3 at Sarah Lawrence College

Mark R. Warren is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He studies efforts to strengthen institutions that anchor inner city communities—churches, schools, and other community-based organizations — and to build broad-based alliances among these institutions and across race and social class.

Seating is limited.  Please contact the Office of College Events at (914) 395-2412 or by email: collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu by October 28 to reserve a seat.

Bernard Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment of the Arts.He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly, and The Paris Review and in several volumes of The Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles and is the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine.

DAPS Presents: Islam in Post 9/11 America, Lecture and Q&A

With Professor James Jones Of Manhattanville College.  The lecture will be an assessment of the relationship between the fear of terroristic violence and how many Americans perceive Muslims and Islam. We will also focus on how all Americans can move  beyond the current fear of "terror" paradigm. Dr. Jimmy Jones is  Associate Professor  and Chair  of the Departments of World Religions and African Studies at Manhattanville College (Purchase NY). He is a  founder and co-coordinator of the Manhattanville College Middle East Forum, an effort that convened peace oriented private conversations between   national Jewish and Muslim leaders.  All are welcome to attend and engage in this important discussion. Sponsored by DAPS, the programming and funding arm of the Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement. For more information please contact, daps@sarahlawrence.edu

‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE:

The story of incestuous love between a brother and sister that ends in disaster and death.  First published in 1633, set in Parma, Italy, it’s a tale of vengeance, violence, and lust designed to appeal to even the most jaded theatergoer of the period.  The Theatre Program presents an abridged version of John Ford’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE,  a workshop production directed by Sterling Swann, featuring Hailey Bachrach, Daniella Benavides, Tiffany Chen, Davya Eschenazi, Montana Hoover, Alexis Ingram, Candace Leone, Monica Lerch, Emma Lipschutz, Samantha Opitz, Katherine F. Wallace, Malka Wallick,  and Hui-Shurn Yong.  Sign up for seats in PAC Lobby.

Spoken Word: Poetry and Personal Accounts of the Freedom Riders and Reception

Freedom Riders' personal accounts: Sarah Lawrence College Professor Emeritus and Freedom Rider Francis Randall, and two other Freedom Riders; Sarah Lawrence students and members of the Yonkers community perform spoken word.

Please contact the Office of College Events at (914) 395-2412 or by email: collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu by October 28 to reserve a seat.

‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE:

The story of incestuous love between a brother and sister that ends in disaster and death.  First published in 1633, set in Parma, Italy, it’s a tale of vengeance, violence, and lust designed to appeal to even the most jaded theatergoer of the period.  The Theatre Program presents an abridged version of John Ford’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE,  a workshop production directed by Sterling Swann, featuring Hailey Bachrach, Daniella Benavides, Tiffany Chen, Davya Eschenazi, Montana Hoover, Alexis Ingram, Candace Leone, Monica Lerch, Emma Lipschutz, Samantha Opitz, Katherine F. Wallace, Malka Wallick,  and Hui-Shurn Yong.  Sign up for seats in PAC Lobby.

Plan to join us for Family Weekend 2011!

Enjoy the festivities on campus, catch up with your Gryphon, explore the SLC community... maybe venture into New York City. It’s a great chance to sample life at Sarah Lawrence College!

Check out the schedule for the 2011 Family Weekend. Please note that additions will be made to this schedule and a final schedule will be provided to all families at the registration table on Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5. Registration materials for Family weekend should arrive to your home by the end of the August.  Should you have any questions, please call the Student Affairs office at 914-395-2575.

SLC SPRINT CARNIVAL

“FIRST Swim Meet of the SEASON”

Poetry Reading and Craft Talk with Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize for I Was the Jukebox (W. W. Norton), selected by Joy Harjo.

Her first collection is Theories of Falling (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008). She is also the author of the memoir, Don't Kill The Birthday Girl, (Crown), which Publishers Weekly called “Intelligent and witty…enthralling…thoughtful and well-written.”

A multi-media testimonial and panel discussion about the Mexican drug war.

Featuring Bernardo Ruiz, a documentary filmmaker and SLC graduate.  In 2007, he founded QUIET PICTURES in order to create aesthetically innovative, socially urgent documentaries.

Macrina Cardenas Alarcon, a community activist and educator at the Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico and former legislative coordinator fot he Mexico Solidarity Network in Washington, D.C.

Guillermo Cervantes, is an educator from Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.  He will discuss his current project, "Cuidad Juarez, a Photographic Testimony of Our Pain"

Sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty Working Group, Global Studies, and Women's History.  Refreshments will be served.

How to Drag Your Private Life Kicking and Screaming into the Public: Looking back at thirty-two yeras of filmmaking with Su Friedrich

 A clip talk by the artist including the screening of a selection of her films, and a presentation concerning their motivation, ideas, and formal concerns.

Reception following the presentation. Sponsored by the Spencer Barnett Experimental Film Forum

The Graduate Studies Office of Admissions will be hosting it annual Fall Open House for all Programs at Slonim House.  

The Open House is an opportunity for undergraduate Sarah Lawrence students to meet with faculty, administrators and current students within each program.

It’s the biggest environmental issue to come along in years.....

The Truth About Fracking: What everyone should know about hyrdro-fracking, human health and the environment.

Grassroots Environmental Education, an award-winning non-profit organization presents an evening of information for all those interested in learning more about fracking. Speakers include Doug Wood, Associate Director of GrassrootsEnvironmental Education and Dr. Larysa Dyrszka of Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy.

For more information about hydro-fracking, please visit www.grassrootsinfo.org

WoCo Presents:Women of Color in Production

Brown Girls Burlesque (BGB) is a collective of women of color dedicated to creating their own reflection in an art form that they have supported and enjoyed but traditionally, has not well-represented people of color. Their mission is to take their rightful place on the stage to celebrate our cultures, sexuality and artistry with humor, fierceness and nudity. Their performance pieces perform social commentary on aspects of race, class, gender and their many intersections.

Questions? Contact woco@gm.slc.edu

Sponsored by Student Senate

Geography Coalition and AWARA Present

The Second Annual Symposium on Indigeneity

Local Voices, National Dialogues: Exploring Indigeneity in the United States

Guest Speakers Include:

Sundance Award winning director Jeff Spitz, featured Navajo activist Mary Begay, and a showing of their film Return of the Navajo Boy. 

Judy Pasternak, international award winning journalist of yellow dirt.

Mohawk Nation spokesperson and spiritual leader Tom Porter, Mohawk language revitalization teacher Bonnie Jane Maracle.

North East Two Spirit Society co-founder and American Indian Community Housing board member Harlan Pruden.

Josephine Smith, a Shinnecock Nation Tribal Council Member.

Sponsored by DAPS, Diana Leslie Fund, Dean of Studies, Student Senate, the Film Department, the Anthropology Department, the Geography Department, and the Graduate Women Studies Department.

Prospective Students Days are a great way to get an up close look at life at Sarah Lawrence. Full information on the Fall 2011 Prospective Students Days will be posted to this site soon; in the meantime, here's an idea of what you'll be able to do during your time on campus:

• Learn what a deeper education can mean to you
• Take a campus tour, and picture yourself at SLC
• Hear about student life and joining our community
• Get answers about admission and financial aid
• Enjoy creative performances by SLC students
• Explore the many opportunities for study abroad
• Check out the Campbell Sports Center facilities

To register: http://www.slc.edu/admission/visit/prospective/register.html

In conjunction with the art exhibition GODDESShood: Our land is our jewel, on view at the Yonkers Public Library from September 10 – December 4, 2011, the Younity female urban art collective and Sarah Lawrence College present a roundtable discussion on art as a social change agent and its relationship to sustainable agriculture and development. Panelists will contribute and exchange knowledge on current trends in seed exchanges, permaculture, issues in small to medium scale farming, urban agriculture, and artist driven sustainable development projects.

Panelists: 

Alice Mizrachi, Artist / Co-founder, Younity Arts, Queens, NY

Co-curator GODDESShood: Our land is our jewel

Cory Tixier, Founder, Pure Habitat, New York / Permaculturist, New Mexico

Elissa Blount Moorhead, Vice Director / Director of Design, Programming and Exhibitions, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, New York

Molly Meehan, CAES Community Outreach and Education Coordinator, Accokeek Foundation and Community Farm, Accokeek, Maryland

Founder, Centro Ashe, Washington DC / Costa Rica

Moderator: 

Diana McClure, Artist/Curator/Writer/Editor, Brooklyn, NY

Co-curator GODDESShood: Our land is our jewel

For directions and parking information please visit: www.slc.edu/directions

This event is generously supported by Latin American and Latino Studies, the Office of the Dean of the College, The Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professorship in Environmental Studies and the Environmental Colloquium Series, the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Art History.

Geography Coalition and AWARA Present

The Second Annual Symposium on Indigeneity

Local Voices, National Dialogues: Exploring Indigeneity in the United States

Guest Speakers Include:

Sundance Award winning director Jeff Spitz, featured Navajo activist Mary Begay, and a showing of their film Return of the Navajo Boy. 

Judy Pasternak, international award winning journalist of yellow dirt.

Mohawk Nation spokesperson and spiritual leader Tom Porter, Mohawk language revitalization teacher Bonnie Jane Maracle.

North East Two Spirit Society co-founder and American Indian Community Housing board member Harlan Pruden.

Josephine Smith, a Shinnecock Nation Tribal Council Member.

Sponsored by DAPS, Diana Leslie Fund, Dean of Studies, Student Senate, the Film Department, the Anthropology Department, the Geography Department, and the Graduate Women Studies Department.

Sungrai Sohn, Conductor

Three years ago we came upon a military internment camp in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers were being beaten and treated as enemies of the state. It was here that we heard of boys too young to carry weapons being sent to the frontlines armed with only a whistle.

The whistle became our symbol of protest.  We started with no home and no answers. Just $5, a vintage whistle, and a garage in West LA. We pulled desks out of dumpsters and began working toward a dream the experts called impossible: peace in Congo.

Three years later we partner with 7 Congolese visionaries working with over 600 war-affected women and children; our coalition includes 40,000 citizens, 200 retailers, 35 Congressmen, and 16 senators demanding an end to our world's deadliest war.

We're a group of 20-somethings. We've sat down with White House and UN execs, yesterday we were at a party hosted by Ashton Kutcher, every day we sell fashion-forward accessories to elevate the voices of Congolese visionaries.  Right now we are weeks away from Congo's 2nd presidential election in history. It is time to act. Our road team is touring the nation. We'll be on your campus, Monday, November 14th at 2pm in the Library Pillow Room.  We have some amazing stories and we can't wait to hear yours.

Join us for a conversation.

Be a whistleblower for peace,

FW Crew

"The Intelligence of Emotions"

A presentation by Russell Hoffing Cohen, SLC Class of 2012

What are emotions anyways? Are they different then feelings? Does everybody have emotions? Clint Eastwood doesn’t, well at least that is what he wants to believe. In fact, he believes that they only exist in our generation, the one he so lovingly refers to as the “pussy generation”.  Well, Clint, I beg to differ, without emotions we would just go down in history as another Phineas Gage, a man who's life spiraled out of control. Without emotions we would not be able to make the complex decisions that lead a successful life.  Emotions make us the intelligent beings we are today.

SMOKIN' HOT: Classy Cats Playin' Jazz Classics

Featuring gems of jazz and the SLC jazz faculty

Performing together Glenn Alexander, Matt Wilson, Kermit Driscoll, and Bob Magnusonperform favorite Jazz classics.

A Writer and Her Agent:

A writer (and SLC faculty member), Nelly Reifler, and her agent, Henry Dunow, will talk not only about the process of finding the right agent, but also about the kinds of nuances within that relationship. They will also answer questions from students (undergraduate and graduate) interested in pursuing a career in writing. All are welcome to attend.  This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Career Counseling and Graduate Writing.  Refreshments will be provided.

2011 LGBTQ Film Festival Presents: Saving Face

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations. Discussion to follow the movie. View the trailer here: http://www.sonyclassics.com/savingface/ .  Sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department, Student Activities, and DAPS.  Popcorn Served! For more information contact daps@sarahlawrence.edu .

Opening Reception Art Gallery Come visit your fellow art peers' awesome paintings. If anyone who does not paint doesn't take the time to come out and see this, you will definitely be missing out. 

Screening of the documentary Life and Debt followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Stephanie Black

http://www.lifeanddebt.org/

Timothy Liu reading and craft talk  

Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose, California, to parents from the Chinese mainland. He is the author of For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); Of Thee I Sing (2004), selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Hard Evidence (2001); Say Goodnight (1998); Burnt Offerings (1995); and Vox Angelica (1992), which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.

He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, (Talisman House, 2000). His poems have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in such magazines and journals as American Letters & Commentary, Bomb, Grand Street, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and Virginia Quarterly Review.

The Harvest [La Cosecha] Film Screening: "In some countries, children pick crops for 14 hours a day. The United States is one of those countries." Come join SLC Worker Justice in an effort to shed light on the hardships faced by children living in the migrant farm-working community. After the screening we will have a Q & A with Susan MacLaury, Executive Producer of the Harvest and co-founder of the non-profit Shine Global.

This event is co-sponsored by DAPS, Student Senate, the Geography Coalition, and AWARA. Bring fellow students, workers, faculty, staff, off campus friends-everyone! We will start on time.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282633941767980

http://theharvestfilm.com/

2011 LGTBQ Film Festival: La Mission

Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt) has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful lowrider cars. A reformed inmate and recovering alcoholic, Che has worked hard to redeem his life and do right by his pride and joy: his only son, Jes, whom he has raised on his own after the death of his wife. Che's path to redemption is tested, however, when he discovers Jes is gay. To survive his neighborhood, Che has always lived with his fists. To survive as a complete man, he'll have to embrace a side of himself he's never shown. Discussion to follow the movie. View the trailer here: http://www.lamissionthemovie.com/ .  Sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department, Student Activities, and DAPS.  Popcorn Served! For more information contact daps@sarahlawrence.edu .

The first female vice-president of Lord and Taylor hatches a revolutionary idea as she struggles to reconcile selling fashion at a time when many people cannot afford food and shelter.  CHRISTMAS WINDOWS OF 1937 is a new musical-in-process, being developed with SLC students, with book and lyrics by Cheri Magid, music by Evan Palazzo, directed by Jackson Gay, and choreographed by Nicco Annan.

Please call the Office of College Events to reserve your seat before it is sold-out: 914-395-2412.

The first female vice-president of Lord and Taylor hatches a revolutionary idea as she struggles to reconcile selling fashion at a time when many people cannot afford food and shelter.  CHRISTMAS WINDOWS OF 1937 is a new musical-in-process, being developed with SLC students, with book and lyrics by Cheri Magid, music by Evan Palazzo, directed by Jackson Gay, and choreographed by Nicco Annan.

Please call the Office of College Events to reserve your seat before it is sold-out: 914-395-2412.

A campus wide concert open to any student in the college who wants to make and or perform a dance.

Occupy Wall Street has become a major national, and possibly, international protest movement in the context of the current economic crisis and initiatives to push through austerity programs by some political forces. 

What is the Occupy Wall Street Movement about and what are some of the issues and challenges it confronts? Please join us for a Teach-In with three SLC faculty members who will provide historical, political, economic and social analysis on the current situation. Speakers are: Jamee Moudud (Economics), Dominic Corva (Latin American Politics), Kim Christensen (Economics), Rob Winslow (Student), Joey DeJesus (Graduate Student), and Jillian Quinn Buckley (alumnae).

Moderated by: Ingrid Loveras and Shay Roman. This Teach-In is a mutual dialogue between all members of our community regarding this important political movement.

The first female vice-president of Lord and Taylor hatches a revolutionary idea as she struggles to reconcile selling fashion at a time when many people cannot afford food and shelter.  CHRISTMAS WINDOWS OF 1937 is a new musical-in-process, being developed with SLC students, with book and lyrics by Cheri Magid, music by Evan Palazzo, directed by Jackson Gay, and choreographed by Nicco Annan.

Please call the Office of College Events to reserve your seat before it is sold-out: 914-395-2412.

SCARGO: A New Play by Andrew Clarke. 

Midnight Cabaret presents the first public reading of Andrew Clarke's new play "Scargo." Hometown secrets, old friends, and wounded families. Jason reconnects with his childhood sweetheart on the last night before he leaves, maybe never to return. Directed by: Ilana Masad Cast: Emma Casey, Hailey Bachrach, yoshi kuroi, Toby Lurio and Jeff Levrant."

The first female vice-president of Lord and Taylor hatches a revolutionary idea as she struggles to reconcile selling fashion at a time when many people cannot afford food and shelter.  CHRISTMAS WINDOWS OF 1937 is a new musical-in-process, being developed with SLC students, with book and lyrics by Cheri Magid, music by Evan Palazzo, directed by Jackson Gay, and choreographed by Nicco Annan.

Please call the Office of College Events to reserve your seat before it is sold-out: 914-395-2412.

A campus wide concert open to any student in the college who wants to make and or perform a dance.

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

janus trio 

 Janus, the Roman God of a Golden Age, was the God of gateways, opening new doors,  past and future, exits and entrances. In 2002 Brooklyn-based janus was formed with the goal of creating and presenting new repertoire for the trio through commissioning projects and collaborations.  Named after Janus, the Roman god whose double-faced image peers into the past and future, the trio maintains the established tradition for the instrumentation while breaking new ground into unexplored sonic frontiers.  Composers have been allured by this intriguing combination of something bowed, something blown and something plucked.

A Talk by Ellen Levy 

Ellen Levy is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and the author of Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery and the Struggle between the Arts (Oxford University Press, 2011). Her poems and essays have appeared in Dissent, Literary Imagination, Modernism/Modernity, The Nation, The New York Review of Books and Raritan; recent work includes an essay on art historian T. J. Clark for Genre and a catalog article on Ray Johnson for Richard Feigen gallery.

A concluding concert of traditional protest and gospel songs and inspirational music sung a cappella by SLC alumnus Nehemiah Luckett and Sarah Lawrence alumni friends; jazz and folk music performed by Sarah Lawrence College students; and poetry performed by members of the College and Yonkers communities.  Please contact the Office of College Events at (914) 395-2412 or by email: collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu by November 28 to reserve a seat.

 LGBTQ Film Festival, WE WERE HERE (documentary): Library Pillow Room

A part of the WORLD AIDS DAY AWARENESS Activities. We Were Heredocuments the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed.  It offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years. It provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the way of medical care, social services, and community support.  2011 marks 30 years since AIDS descended. Like an unrelenting hurricane, the epidemic roiled San Francisco for two decades and only began granting some reprieve with medical advancements in the late 90s. The death years of AIDS left the City ravaged and exhausted, yet, as in most of the developed world, the worst seems past. Though thousands are still living with HIV, and new infections continue at an alarming rate, the relentless suffering of the 80s and 90s has given way to a kind of calm, and, understandably, a degree of willful forgetfulness.  We Were Here utilizes San Francisco’s experience with AIDS to open up an overdue conversation both about the history of the epidemic, and the lessons to be learned from it. View the trailer here: http://wewereherefilm.com/ .   Sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department, Student Activities, Health and Wellness Subcommittee, and DAPS.  For more information contact daps@sarahlawrence.edu

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Occupy Wall Street - more details forthcoming

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Satoko Inoue, Piano Soloist

 From Tokyo, Satoko Inoue is a renowned international soloist, recording artist, and international competition winner.

 New works and world premier's by Japanese composers with imagery accompaniment by Sarah Lawrence alumna, Kristine Marx

and Chester Biscardi's newest work, In Time's Unfolding. commissioned by The Library of Congress.

Sungrai Sohn, Director

Suna Chung, Piano

Jonathan Yates, Conductor

Jonathan T. King and I Nyoman Saptanyana, Directors

The 17th Semi-Annual SLC Science and Mathematics Poster Session

This is your chance to present to the SLC Community your course, conference or research work in science, mathematics or related fields.  Mark your calendars now.  Further information on participating, abstract submission, poster printing, etc. will be forthcoming through the SciMath group on MySLC.  If you have questions, please contact Drew Cressman (dcressma@slc.edu) in the Biology department.

Winter Concert  - Performances:

Program A Friday December 9 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 2:00pm

Program B  Saturday December 10 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 7:00pm

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Winter Concert  - Performances:

Program A Friday December 9 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 2:00pm

Program B  Saturday December 10 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 7:00pm

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Winter Concert  - Performances:

Program A Friday December 9 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 2:00pm

Program B  Saturday December 10 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 7:00pm

Patrick Romano, Director

Winter Concert  - Performances:

Program A Friday December 9 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 2:00pm

Program B  Saturday December 10 at 7:30pm, Sunday December 11 at 7:00pm

Glenn Alexander, Director

December Commencement

Barbara Bray Ketchum Concert: Patti Bradshaw, Artist-in-residence

Barbara Bray Ketchum Concert: Patti Bradshaw, Artist-in-residence

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Kaplan Test preparation is an outside organization that rents space at Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College has no affiliation with the SAT test Preparation by Kaplan. For information on registration and course please contact Kaplan at 1-800-KAP-TEST(527-8378)

Judith Brin Ingber presents: Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance.

Nueva Luz Photographs: 1985-2011 features artists published in the past 26 years in En Foco's Nueva Luz Photographic Journal. The exhibit will include photography by Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Lola Flash, Frank Gimpaya, Bonnie Portelance, Justine Reyes, and Jane Tam.  Since its premier in 1985, Nueva Luz has published nearly 200 artists in 49 issues, highlighting the work of contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of African, Asian, Latino, and Native American heritage.  Through En Foco's visual arts programs, which includes the Nueva Luz photographic journal, artists are free to explore or reinvent cultural traditions, challenge preconceived notions, and engage audiences in a manner that honors all.

Opening Reception Tuesday January 24th 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Join us for the first of three talks on the new science of epigenetics—how environmental influences affect gene expression.

Laura Hercher, Human Genetics Program faculty, will provide an introduction to the subject. As she says, it’s not what genes you have, it’s how you use them that counts. Sponsored by the Health, Science and Society group.

Southern Westchester Energy Action Consortium’s

~ SUSTAINABILITY FORUM ~

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012, 8:45am - Noon

SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE

Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Bronxville/Yonkers, New York 10708

 This event is designed to strengthen the capacity for sustainability-focused collaboration in Southern Westchester.  The Forum will provide the opportunity for elected officials, municipal staff and municipal sustainability committees to share resources and expertise and set an agenda for collaboration in 2012.  SWEAC prioritizes initiatives that reduce municipal operating costs, enhance our communities and provide environmental benefits.

 For detailed information, and to register, please click here.

This by-invitation participatory event will include breakout sessions - invitees will choose one of the following sessions when they register:

• Models for collaboration (primarily for elected officials and municipal staff)
• Models for inter-municipal collaboration on sustainability issues - strengths and challenges;
• Municipal priorities related to sustainability;
• Discussion of how collaboration could support key efforts, including pursuit of significant funding likely to be available in the near future;
• Next steps.
• Municipal Energy Efficiency
• Local best practices including LED street lights and efficient municipal fleets;
• Discussion of needs and priorities;
• Opportunities to collaborate.
• Transportation: Complete Streets (with Tri-State Transportation Campaign)
• Introduction to Complete Streets NYS legislation;
• How local adoption can help you improve pedestrian, bike and transit options in your municipality;
• Opportunities to collaborate.
• Transportation: Supporting Transit In Our Communities and On The New Tappan Zee (with Tri-State Transportation Campaign)
• Benefits of transit in our communities;
• Importance of transit on the Tappan Zee;
• How municipalities can collaborate to promote transit for residents and employees.
• Waste Reduction: Minimizing Waste and Improving Recycling
• Introduction to the new NYS "Beyond Waste" plan;
• Improving recycling - increasing compliance by working with residents and local DPW collection crews;
• Beyond recycling - Waste prevention and minimization opportunities.
• Waste: Love 'Em and Leave 'Em - On-Site Leaf Mulching (with Greenburgh Nature Center and the Village of Irvington)
• How this simple practice can save your municipality significant funds;
• How to promote this practice at the municipal and community level;
• Opportunities to collaborate in successful regional adoption of this win-win practice.        

Support from the Westchester Community Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College and Greenburgh Nature Center is gratefully acknowledged.

Enjoy a slice of pizza while learning about resume writing from a career counselor. Need help developing a resume from scratch or polishing the one you currently have? This workshop is strongly recommended for ALL students as you begin your internship and/or job search.  Guides will be provided with resume and cover letter samples and templates. RSVP preferred. Email occ@sarahlawrence.edu indicating the date you plan to attend.

The Peasant and The Priest aspects of Italian life today: the passing of traditional farming in Italy and the increase in enforced prostitution. The film is threaded with a metaphor from a medieval fresco in Siena,

Former Writing Institute student Lucia Greenhouse will read from her book fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science.

Writing Institute Open House

Come meet the spring faculty, learn about the course offerings, and register for the spring term.  Light refreshments will be served.

Dr. Thornton will discuss her newest memoir SOMETHING TO PROVE:A Daughter's Journey to Fulfill a Father's Legacy.

Sponsored by Women's History Graduate Studies.

Westchester Land Trust presents Dar Williams

Dar Williams, activist/ songwriter & environmentalist (lecture/concert) will talk abouther vision of a sustainable local lifestyle and how “positive proximity” can reduce ourenvironmental impact. Dar has incorporated her passion for the environment into her songs.

Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at door. Seating without a reservation will not be guaranteed. For reservations: www.westchesterlandtrust.org or 914-241-6346 x23.

Sarah Lawrence College Students, Facutly and Staff: Limited number of tickets available at no charge to the SLC Community (must show a valid SLC ID or have a valid SLC email addresss).  Please contact College Events for your reservation: Collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu or 914-395-2412.

This series has been funded by the Jerome Levy Foundation.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder is the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of five award winning books on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations

Evenel St. Vil taught English and Computer Science at the University of Port Au prince prior to the devastating 2010 earthquake. Now, nearly two years later, he works with the AFYA Foundation of America, based in Yonkers, to direct life-saving medical supplies to Haitians in need. St. Vil is the manager for the AFYA Foundation Rehab Project, which trains Haitians to assess and treat patients as Rehab Techs, and Adaptive Builders, which creates products for the disabled. He is the point person in Haiti and has aided AFYA to create an independent team in Haiti which promotes and provides good health to all. Come hear an amazing story of recovery and resilience as told by Evenel St. Vil, Danielle Butin, and Sarah Schuyler of AFYA foundation. Sponsored by THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS and THE HEALTH ADVOCACY PROGRAM.

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

"Un pas de côté" (A step aside) is the third film produced in partnership with the French filmmaker Michel Charron and Brazilian dancer and choreographer Anamaria Fernandes.  This documentary, produced with the co-sponsorship of the French Ministry of Culture, portrays some dance workshops Anamaria Fernandes develops with young people with autism in the city of Thorigne Fouillard.  Discussion with Anamaria follows the film. Sponsored by the Dance Program. 

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

CRAZYFACE

Directed by theatre faculty member Ernest Abuba, Crazyface examines the very heartbeat of the human experience – family, religion, national conquests, witchcraft, simple goodness, evil and treachery, all experienced through the journey of a simple boy who longs to fly. Teeters between the miraculous and insanity, between the profound and the profane. Part Alexander Dumas, part Monty Phython.

To reserve your seat, please contact the Office of College Events at 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu. SEATING IS LIMITED, RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

Come hear Tony Trischka, Banjo artist, Bluegrass Award Winner, Recording Artist, Teacher to the Stars.  Rare opportunity to see and hear the famed picker in person!  

TRACY FULLERTON: Provocations in Play: Experimental Designs from the USC Game Innovation Lab

Rebooting college access, revolutionizing freshman orientation, and reinterpreting the work of Henry David Thoreau – all provocative subjects to take on as the focus of experimental game projects.  There are many different approaches to experimental game design; some designers focus on mechanics, others on narrative or aesthetics.  For the designers at the USC Game Innovation Lab, each individual project requires its own unique approach, but all demand a careful balance of risk taking and irreverence, balanced with an open process and willingness to allow the project to evolve.  This talk will look at several new and current projects, their inspirations and outcomes. 

Donnelley Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Sponsored by the Blavatnik Fund for Art & Technology and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Fund for Experimental Film

Tracy Fullerton, M.F.A., is an experimental game designer, professor and director of the Game Innovation Lab at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she holds the Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Entertainment. 

Facebook link:  

http://www.facebook.com/events/238586732885896/

PATIENTS AS POLICY ACTORS

HAP Brown Bag with PizzaRachel Grob, HAP ’92

Health advocacy is about giving primacy to the needs, voices, and experiences of people – residents in communities, and consumers of health care. This edited volume focuses on a particular dimension of advocacy: the role of patients in health policy. Come join author, co-editor, and HAP faculty member Rachel Grob for a discussion about how patient perspectives can be more effectively integrated into a pluralistic conception of policy-making, and about some programmatic initiatives under the health reform act that attempt to put these ideas into action.

Rachel N. Grob – BA, Wesleyan University. MA ( HAP1992 ) , Sarah Lawrence College. PhD ( sociology ) , City University of New York Graduate Center. Research focus on interface of genetics and advocacy and the social impact of technological innovation. Currently Scholar in Residence and Director of National Initiatives, Center for Patient Partnerships, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly associate dean of graduate studies and director, Child Development Institute, Sarah Lawrence College. Investigator in health policy research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2006-11. Prior positions include director of policy analysis and planning, Andrus Children’ s Center ( responsibilities included development of services for children and families and spearheading an Early Childhood Initiative in Yonkers, NY ) and assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of Health, Westchester County Health Department. Author of Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening , Parenting and Policymaking, and co-editor of Patients as Policy Actors, 2011 and author of numerous articles and book chapters about advocacy, parenting, newborn screening, and genetics. SLC, 1998-. Currently on 2 year leave from SLC. 

The SSSF Committee hopes to see you all at this year's Annual SSSF Auction, this Friday, February 24, in Reisinger. The silent auction will run from 11:00am to 5:20pm and will be followed by a live auction beginning at 6:00pm and featuring performances by Treble in Paradise, Rumpus Hour, and Res Miranda. To see a list of the nearly 200 auction items, follow this link: http://goo.gl/lcXPd 

The SSSF Committee hopes to see you all at this year's Annual SSSF Auction, this Friday, February 24, in Reisinger. The silent auction will run from 11:00am to 5:20pm and will be followed by a live auction beginning at 6:00pm and featuring performances by Treble in Paradise, Rumpus Hour, and Res Miranda. To see a list of the nearly 200 auction items, follow this link: http://goo.gl/lcXPd 

Winter Open Concert

Marshall Field Room 1

"The City That is Planning to be Flooded?"

A presentation by Doug Hill, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

With global warming, the New York metropolitan region faces a double threat of coastal flooding: recurring minor flooding as sea level rises, and possible catastrophic flooding from a storm surge due to a severe hurricane or nor’easter storm. The inner city and nearby New Jersey can be protected from coastal flooding by placing storm surge barriers at narrow points in the waterways surrounding the city. Such barriers have been built at ports in New England and Europe, but New York City remains unprotected. Recent planning reports by the city government ignore this possibility, offering instead a policy of resilience, not protection, with “soft infrastructure.” In effect, the city is planning to be flooded. In the face of criticism, however, the city government may now be changing its plans.

The Manhattan String Quartet is well known for their interpretation of 20th century classics, and are critically acclaimed as one of America's leading ensembles; a national treasure possessing thrilling virtuosity.

Science writer Annie Murphy Paul will speak about the emerging science of fetal origins—a new understanding of the importance of the perinatal environment and how it exerts lasting effects on us from infancy well into adulthood. Sponsored by Health, Science and Society.

Based partly on his book PARADIGMS LOST, and his language column for Esquire magazine, this talk concerns current abuses of the English language, where they come from, and how they could conceivably be diminished.

Sponsored by the Writing Institute.

The 14th Annual Women's History Conference focuses on the ways in which women have used their art as means of liberation.  Historically, women have seen and represented as protectors and transmitters of culture, yet, although some women gained recognition as artists, many more struggle to be seen, heard, and taken seriously.  As in other disciplines, women bring their own diverse voices and points of view to the canvas, writing table, music stand, stage and street.  From Renaissance painters to contemporary hip hop and performance artists, women represent their particular journeys as singular personalities and as members of various groups.  Whoever they are and from wherever they hail, their expression expands our global understanding of women's history.  At its core, the Women's History Conference is about women's activism, which throughout time has employed artistic expression.  Participants of the conference are invited to attend a performance of In the Blood, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that tells the story of a mother, Hester, and her five fatherless children, trying to find help to make their lives successful.  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 1, 2, 3 at 7 p.m. in the Open Space Theatre.

For the entire schedule, visit:

http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/conference/schedule.html

The 14th Annual Women's History Conference focuses on the ways in which women have used their art as means of liberation.  Historically, women have seen and represented as protectors and transmitters of culture, yet, although some women gained recognition as artists, many more struggle to be seen, heard, and taken seriously.  As in other disciplines, women bring their own diverse voices and points of view to the canvas, writing table, music stand, stage and street.  From Renaissance painters to contemporary hip hop and performance artists, women represent their particular journeys as singular personalities and as members of various groups.  Whoever they are and from wherever they hail, their expression expands our global understanding of women's history.  At its core, the Women's History Conference is about women's activism, which throughout time has employed artistic expression.  Participants of the conference are invited to attend a performance of In the Blood, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that tells the story of a mother, Hester, and her five fatherless children, trying to find help to make their lives successful.  Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 1, 2, 3 at 7 p.m. in the Open Space Theatre.

For the entire schedule, visit:

http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/conference/schedule.html

SLC Health Advocacy Program Forum presents

  Ian Koebner

Does Acupuncture ‘Work’?:

A Discussion on the Role of Acupuncture in Pain Management

During this informal presentation we will look at the history and current use of acupuncture, the state of acupuncture analgesia research, and answer the questions ‘what is complementary and alternative medicine?’ ‘who uses it?’ ‘and for what?’

RSVP: cgreene@sarahlawrence.edu  

 or 914-395-2602

Ian Koebner is a pain specialist whose unique skill-set bridges eastern and western approaches to the complex problem of pain. Koebner holds a Master of Science in Pain Research, Education, and Policy from Tufts University School of Medicine, a Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture, and a Bachelors of Arts from Wesleyan University. He has treated patients in a variety of clinical settings, including Tufts Medical Center Infectious Disease Clinic, Pathways to Wellness (formerly AIDS Care Project), and Cambridge Health Alliance.

He is board certified by the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), and licensed and registered to practice acupuncture in the state of Massachusetts. Ian is a two time winner (2008, 2009) of the Trudy Macalister Scholarship - a National scholarship awarded to two students of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine who show promise of making significant contributions to clinical practice and/or to the understanding of Traditional Oriental Medicine in a modern context, a former Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Practitioner Resident, and trustee of the New England School of Acupuncture. Ian is also the founding director of Sacred Slam, a non-profit organization dedicated to challenging misconceptions through the arts, and creating intercultural exchanges.

The landmark musical SPRING AWAKENING is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years.  Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable SPRING AWAKENING.

Open Concert - Performances : Friday March 9 at 7:30pm, Saturday March 10 at 7:30pm

A campus wide concert open to any student in the College who wants to make and/or perform a dance.

The landmark musical SPRING AWAKENING is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that is exhilarating audiences across the nation like no other musical in years.  Join this group of late 19th century German students on their passage as they navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion in the daring, remarkable SPRING AWAKENING.

Open Concert - Performances : Friday March 9 at 7:30pm, Saturday March 10 at 7:30pm

A campus wide concert open to any student in the College who wants to make and/or perform a dance.

Come hear critic John Simon share highlights from his illustrious career in the arts as an author and a critic of film, theatre, literature and music.

Sponsored by The Writing Institute.

Poetry reading by renowned Mexican poet Myriam Moscona. Ms. Moscona will be joined by her translator, Jen Hofer, who will discuss the process and challenges of translation with her.

Myriam Moscona, the daughter of Bulgarian Sephardic Jews, was born in1955 in Mexico City, where she still lives. Her most recent book is Depar en par (visual poetry), 2009. Her other books include Lasvisitantes, Vísperas, Negro marfil and El que nada. She has translated

(in collaboration) The desert music of William Carlos Williams and ACollection of Kenneth Rexroth. She  has made a number of artist’s

books and text objects containing visual poetry. She has beentranslated into Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Bulgarian, German, Dutch,English and French. She has received numerous prizes and fellowships,including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize for the book Lasvisitantes, the National Poetry Prize for Poetry Translation and aGuggenheim fellowship.

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are the homemade chapbook Lead & Tether (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011); Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press, 2011); a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); and lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007). She teaches at CalArts, Goddard College, and Otis College, and works nationally and locally as a social justice interpreter. Her installation titled “Uncovering: A Quilted Poem Made from Donated and Foraged Materials from Wendover, Utah” will be on view at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Utah starting in November 2011.

An improvisational soundscape, integrating recorded sound technology and live music.

Reportero a film by Bernardo Ruiz.

A veteran reporter challenges the drug cartels and corrupt politicians during an unprecendented wave of violence against journalists in Mexico. 

Screening and talk with filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz and journalist Sergio Haro Cordero.

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by LALS, Film History, and the Alumni Office.

This poetry reading will feature faculty member Thomas Sayers Ellis and MFA alumnae Traci Brimhall, Jennifer Wallace, and Meredith Trede. Refreshments will be served.  Thomas Sayers Ellis’s poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry (1997, 2001 and 2010), Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation, and a new collection of poetry, Skin, Inc., has just appeared from Graywolf Press. Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize.  Jennifer Wallace is a poetry editor at The Cortland Review and a founding editor of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Minor Heaven, appears in Desire Path (Toadlily Press, 2005).  Meredith Trede is a poet and publisher.  Her book, Field Theory, was published in October by SFA Press, Stephen F. Austin State University.

HAP FORUM presents co-author Rosemary Gibson

Patient Advocacy in the Patient Safety Movement: Progress, Pitfalls, and Predictions

                                                         RSVP to cgreene@sarahlawrence.edu

The presentation will reveal the early days of patient advocacy that galvanized the patient safety movement.  Using narratives of patients and families from the book, Wall of Silence, it will trace the impact of the advocacy on federal and state policy to reduce medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. 

Rosemary Gibson is a national leader in patient safety and principal author of The Treatment Trap, a book that puts a human face on the overuse of unnecessary medical tests, surgeries and office visits.  For policymakers in the White House and Congress who are implementing health care reform, it offers a ten-step recovery plan to curb health-care excess.  For consumers, it offers twenty smart steps to avoid overuse.  Currently she is a section editor at the Archives of Internal Medicine series, Less is More.

 Rosemary was chief architect of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s thirteen-year strategy to establish palliative care in the mainstream of the U.S. health care system.  Her work enabled the integration of palliative medicine in medical and nursing education, clinical practice, and research.  It also provided opportunities for practicing clinicians to learn palliative medicine and integrate it into the care of their patients.

Rosemary initiated a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life."  She worked with Bill Moyers and Public Affairs Television on the PBS documentary, "On Our Own Terms," which showed to more than 20 million viewers how the U.S. health care system can better care for seriously ill patients and their families

For her work in establishing the field of palliative care, she is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

 Rosemary is author of the critically acclaimed book, Wall of Silence, which tells the human story behind the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human.  Wall of Silence was reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Health Affairs, referenced in proceedings of the U.S. Senate, mentioned in Congressional testimony, noted in The Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe, and highlighted in the anniversary issue of O Magazine

 Rosemary has given keynote presentations on patient safety at hospitals around the country including the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic, and national organizations including the National Quality Forum, the annual patient safety conference hosted by The Joint Commission, the American Organization of Nurse Executives, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the Federation of State Medical Boards, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, and the annual symposium of the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston, among others. 

A leading expert on child development and social policy, Dr. Joan Lombardi will speak about early childhood development in the US, looking back and moving forward.  Lombardi served in the Department of Health and Human Services as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in Administration for Children and Families and the first Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau, among other positions.

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collection Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and two novels: The Subject Steve and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

This faculty discussion panel will feature two pairings of science and art professors in conversation with each other on the fascinating connections between art and neuroscience and how each discipline is being informed by the other. Elizabeth Johnston (psychology faculty) and Michael Vahrenwald (photography faculty) will discuss the hedonics and esthetics of art, drawing upon current research in neuropsychology. Then, Leah Olson (biology faculty) and Shirley Kaplan (theater faculty) will take a look at creativity and performing. There will be Q&A time. *Lunch Provided.

A Brain Awareness Week event.

Maria Caridad Cumana will discuss the evolution of film production in post-revolutionary Cuba.  She will focus on the diveristy of aesthetic expression, and the ways in which filmmakers appropriate prevailing artistic discourse to reflect current political, economic, and social issues in Cuba.  After the discussion, two documentaries will be screened: Zona de Silencio (2007), directed by Karel Ducases, and Los Banistas (2010)m directed by Carlos Lechuga.  A Q&A session will follow.

A presentation by Elizabeth Ryan. 

Elizabeth Ryan has been an activist farmer all of her adult life, and asks hard questions about the relationships between land, capital, labor, markets, food, diet and health. Elizabeth has been farming in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years and is a founder of over 15 farmers’ markets including the Union Square Green Market in New York City. Her “next century agriculture” vision for future farms includes a time when land is not a commodity, when farms are centers for food and culture as well as agriculture, when every person on the farm is a stakeholder, if not an equity holder, and where significant portions of our food are produced within 100 miles of where we live. The home farm, Breezy Hill Orchard, was one of the first eight farms certified organic in NYS.

Sponsored by the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Chair in Environmental Studies, the Marilyn Simpson Trust, and the Office of the Dean of the College

Open Minds A Night of Brain PerformancesDance! Theater! Poetry! Comedy! Spoken word! Music! Faculty! Students! Come have your mind blown by a night of performance art. Faculty and students will be gracing the Reisinger stage with their pieces, all based on the central theme of ‘Brains!’

Performers include: Charlotte Long, Bill Shullenberger, Nikhil Wadhwani, Maurice Dawkins, the Friendly Strangers, Doug Machugh, Cohlie Brocato, Shay Roman, the Making New Work class, Ada DeFriez, Abby Hellauer, Michelle Huber, Sura Hertzberg, Niyonta Chowdhury, and Russell Cohen Hoffing. Watch out - we’re turning science into art!

A Brain Awareness Week event.

German born violin prodigy Rolfe Schulte together with pianist Judith Olson perform works of Ravel, Carter, Debussy and Bartok.

First Year Studies Visual Art Exhibition: Heimbold Atrium and Heimbold 105

Brain Meds and the Controversies Behind Them: Drugs like Adderall, Ritalin and a host of others have been a topic of hot controversy ever since their introduction to the market. They’ve been labeled both miraculous and dangerous. Recently, their use as ‘study drugs’ and ‘party drugs’ has been on the rise. So what do these medications actually do? Join the American Chemical Society, SLC’s chemistry club, as they discuss ADHD medications and sort through the confusions surrounding them.A Brain Awareness Week event.

Author Diane Williams will do a reading.  This will be followed by a discussion between Diane Williams and SLC faculty member Victoria Redel.

Diane Williams is the author of It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, Romancer Erector, Excitability: Selected Stories, The Stupefaction, Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear, and This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate. Her most recent book is Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty (McSweeney's, 2012).  She is the editor of the literary annual NOON.

In 2001, the violinist Sungrai Sohn was terminally ill with liver disease.  The prospects of finding a liver from a deceased donor were dim.  His brother-in-law, the filmmaker David Esposito, decided to donate part of his liver to Sungrai.  The twin surgeries were a success and David and Sungrai are both living active and productive lives ten years later.  The promise and at times difficult reality of living donation is presented in the form of interviews with family members, translplant surgeons, social workers, and a Living Donor Advocate from the Center for Living Donation at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. 

In a Central America of rogue cops, mineral companies, private armies, squatters, and a magic subway, can the torching of a village ever be just another day? The Theatre Program presents DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR by Erik Ehn, one of 17 world premieres of the playwright’s works that will converge at LaMama in NYC in November 2012.  Our play is directed by Dan Hurlin and features Jamie Agnello, Nehprii Amenii, Martin Balmaceda, Karen Cellini, Daniel Glenn, Monica Lerch, Chloe Moser, Ian Riese, and Shayna Strype.  You may make reservations at (914) 395-2412.

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April 13, 7:00-10:30, Slonim Living Room: The 5th Annual Sarah Lawrence Folk FestivalCome out and see some of the most exciting people making folk music today! Performers come from New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, Vermont, Arizona, and beyond for this growing tradition. This year's line-up includes: Joe Pug, Bevel Summers, Tumbling Bones, The Apple Kickers, Plume Giant, Charlie Hunter, Brown Bird Blonde Bird, Elliott Harvey, Chris Faroe ('09), John Powell ('10), and more! Free baklava will be provided at undisclosed times during the day.

April 14, 5:30-11, Slonim Living Room: The 5th Annual Sarah Lawrence Folk FestivalCome out and see some of the most exciting people making folk music today! Performers come from New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, Vermont, Arizona, and beyond for this growing tradition. This year's line-up includes: Joe Pug, Bevel Summers, Tumbling Bones, The Apple Kickers, Plume Giant, Charlie Hunter, Brown Bird Blonde Bird, Elliott Harvey, Chris Faroe ('09), John Powell ('10), and more! And look for our sister event, a barn dance with SLC's own bluegrass ensemble, in Reisinger from 2-5. Free baklava will be provided at undisclosed times during the day.

In a Central America of rogue cops, mineral companies, private armies, squatters, and a magic subway, can the torching of a village ever be just another day? The Theatre Program presents DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR by Erik Ehn, one of 17 world premieres of the playwright’s works that will converge at LaMama in NYC in November 2012.  Our play is directed by Dan Hurlin and features Jamie Agnello, Nehprii Amenii, Martin Balmaceda, Karen Cellini, Daniel Glenn, Monica Lerch, Chloe Moser, Ian Riese, and Shayna Strype.  You may make reservations at (914) 395-2412.

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Spring Open Concert

Summer High School Program's Film and Animation Open House: Heimbold AtriumProspective students will have the opportunity to tour the campus and are invited to attend a Q&A session with the program's director. 

Swing your partner with esteemed caller David Harvey. No experience necessary. It's not a dance class, it's a dance party. It's good old fashion square dancing with live music by the SLC Bluegrass Band.

April 13, 7:00-10:30, Slonim Living Room: The 5th Annual Sarah Lawrence Folk FestivalCome out and see some of the most exciting people making folk music today! Performers come from New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, Vermont, Arizona, and beyond for this growing tradition. This year's line-up includes: Joe Pug, Bevel Summers, Tumbling Bones, The Apple Kickers, Plume Giant, Charlie Hunter, Brown Bird Blonde Bird, Elliott Harvey, Chris Faroe ('09), John Powell ('10), and more! Free baklava will be provided at undisclosed times during the day.

April 14, 5:30-11, Slonim Living Room: The 5th Annual Sarah Lawrence Folk FestivalCome out and see some of the most exciting people making folk music today! Performers come from New York, Philadelphia, Alabama, Chicago, Vermont, Arizona, and beyond for this growing tradition. This year's line-up includes: Joe Pug, Bevel Summers, Tumbling Bones, The Apple Kickers, Plume Giant, Charlie Hunter, Brown Bird Blonde Bird, Elliott Harvey, Chris Faroe ('09), John Powell ('10), and more! And look for our sister event, a barn dance with SLC's own bluegrass ensemble, in Reisinger from 2-5. Free baklava will be provided at undisclosed times during the day.

In a Central America of rogue cops, mineral companies, private armies, squatters, and a magic subway, can the torching of a village ever be just another day? The Theatre Program presents DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR by Erik Ehn, one of 17 world premieres of the playwright’s works that will converge at LaMama in NYC in November 2012.  Our play is directed by Dan Hurlin and features Jamie Agnello, Nehprii Amenii, Martin Balmaceda, Karen Cellini, Daniel Glenn, Monica Lerch, Chloe Moser, Ian Riese, and Shayna Strype.  You may make reservations at (914) 395-2412.

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Lauren Shepard, soprano, Hyun Mee Kim, piano

Spring 2012 Science Seminar Series: Specializations in the Echolocation of Cuban Bats:  Biodiversity as a Research ToolA presentation by Emanuel C. Mora, Head, Research Group in Bioacoustics and Neuroethology, Havana University

Lunch provided!

Conquering into Liberty: The Deep Origins of the American Way of War

presented by Eliot A. Cohen

Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there.  A graduate of Harvard College, he received his PhD in political science at Harvard in 1982.  After teaching at Harvard and at the Naval War College (Department of Strategy), he served on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, then joined SAIS in 1990.  His most recent book is Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002); other books include (with John Gooch) Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War.  In 1991-93 he directed the US Air Force's official multi-volume study of the 1991 Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey.  He has served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, and as a member of the Defense Policy Advisory Board of the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as other government advisory bodies.  From 2007-2009, he was Counselor of the Deparment of State, serving as Secretary Condoleeza Rice's senior adviser on strategic issues.

The lecture is sponsored by The Adda Bozeman Chair in International Relations.

Printmaking Chelsea Balance | Jahmekya Birhan Lily Cronig | Nachi Conde-Farley Hazel Kiefer | Stephanie Lemonik Odette Melendez | Samantha Moran Patrick Phillips | Benjamin Schofield Hannah Ullman-Levine | Corey Willis Elizabeth Wilson * Jessica Butler | Ian Harkey Laren Hudson | Galen Marshall-Clark * Opening Reception April 18, 4:00 - 6:00 PM Heimbold Atrium Gallery 

George Saunders received National Magazine Awards in 1994 for "The 400-Pound CEO," in 1996 for "Bounty," and in 1999 for "The Barber's Unhappiness". He was awarded New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, both in 1996, for CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. He was named one of the Twenty Best American Fiction Writers under Forty by New Yorker magazine in 1999. Pastoralia was chosen as New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000. His most recent publication is The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead Books 2007). 

Sarah Lawrence College Undergraduate Development Studies Conference

10am - 6pm

Introduction by Dr. Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College

Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Karl Botchway, The New School for Social Research

Student Presenters include:

Tal Lee Anderman, Columbia University

Sebastian Barreneche,  Sarah Lawrence College

Dahlia Colmanm  Sarah Lawrence CollegeBrigid Conroy, Sarah Lawrence CollegeLuis Lei, Sarah Lawrence CollegePriscilla Liu, Sarah Lawrence College

Sandra Pellerano, Sarah Lawrence CollegeGabriel Sub, Bard CollegeRichard Sun, Columbia UniversityMegan Svoboda,  Smith CollegeTo register for this event, please contact College Events at 914-395-2412 or  collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu

This event is free and open to the public . Registration includes a lunch ticket. 

Visit http://slcdevconf.org for more information and www.slc.edu for directions to campus.  

The Turn to the Native: A Symposium on Native American Studies in Honor of Arnold Krupat

Session 1, 10 a.m.

Session 2, 2 p.m.

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT BY Ed Eckstein

Krupat book display by SLC Library

Session I: 10 a.m.

Patricia Hilden

Carceral Spaces: From Praying Towns to Prisons 

Virginia Kennedy  

Gardens, Lakes, and Travel Tales:  Leslie Silko, Margaret Fuller, and the Possibility of  Cosmopolitan Ecology

Shari Huhndorf

Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water

David Murray

Texts and More: Arnold Krupat's Contributions to Native Studies

Session II: 2 p.m.

Peter Whitely

Chief Seattle and his Speech: Further Ethnohistorical Traces  

Michael Elliott

Alternate Histories and the Political Fantastic

Shamoon Zamir  

Portraits & Self-Portraits of the Artist: Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian

Harald Gaski,  

My Home Is In My Heart And It Migrates With Me: A Comparative Look At The Indigenous Sami Multimedia Artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

Visit www.slc.edu for directions to campus. To RSVP for this event or more information,contact College Events 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu

The Turn to the Native: A Symposium on Native American Studies in Honor of Arnold Krupat

Session 1, 10 a.m.

Session 2, 2 p.m.

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT BY Ed Eckstein

Krupat book display by SLC Library

Session I: 10 a.m.

Patricia Hilden

Carceral Spaces: From Praying Towns to Prisons 

Virginia Kennedy  

Gardens, Lakes, and Travel Tales:  Leslie Silko, Margaret Fuller, and the Possibility of  Cosmopolitan Ecology

Shari Huhndorf

Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water

David Murray

Texts and More: Arnold Krupat's Contributions to Native Studies

Session II: 2 p.m.

Peter Whitely

Chief Seattle and his Speech: Further Ethnohistorical Traces  

Michael Elliott

Alternate Histories and the Political Fantastic

Shamoon Zamir  

Portraits & Self-Portraits of the Artist: Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian

Harald Gaski,  

My Home Is In My Heart And It Migrates With Me: A Comparative Look At The Indigenous Sami Multimedia Artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

Visit www.slc.edu for directions to campus. To RSVP for this event or more information,contact College Events 914-395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Dance MFA Concert Program A, choreography by Melissa Alexis, Bailey Bretz, Chia Yin Kao.  Reservation lists posted in the PAC Lobby.

Senior recital by jazz duo Wells Albritton, piano and David Hauss, bass.

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Dance MFA Concert Program B, choreography by Caroline Copeland, Dawn Kinstle, Maxine Sherman.  Reservation lists posted in the PAC Lobby.

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Dance MFA Concert Program A, choreography by Melissa Alexis, Bailey Bretz, Chia Yin Kao.  Reservation lists posted in the PAC Lobby.

Sungrai Sohn, conductor

The Sarah Lawrence String Orchestra performs classics ranging from Vivaldi's "Spring" to Gershwin's "Lullaby."

MFA Theses Concerts  -  Performances: 

Program A: Friday April 20 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm

Program B:  Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm, Sunday April 22 at 7:00pm

Presentation of MFA candidates’ final projects.

Dance MFA Concert Program B, choreography by Caroline Copeland, Dawn Kinstle, Maxine Shreman.  Reservation lists posted in the PAC Lobby.

What happens when a socialist revolutionary intellectual asserts creative freedom? Adapted from the eponymous novel, Memories of Overdevelopment,and directed by Miguel Coyula, the film explores theideological clashes and contradictions that explode and fragment within a Cuban émigré’s mind but also resonate far beyond the NY apartment where he now lives. A mesmerizing, subliminal collage, the film forges new cinematic dimensions with multiple planes: it is a picaresque tale of desire and decay, a self-reflexive formal project about art and its complex relationship with life, a surreal foray into memory and the unconscious, and a searing critique of twentieth-century forces like genocide and totalitarianism.

The screening will be followed by a 5-minute interactive short that explains how the film was made, and then a Q&A period.

Sponsored by the Dean of the College, Film and New Media, LALS, and the Spanish Department.

Famed Bavarian tenor and American pianist come together in a dazzling operatic showcase.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as students in the Writing Institute share their recent work.

Jonathan Yates, conductor

The Sarah Lawrence Orchestra plays Beethoven's 4th Symphony and more!

Michael Zuckert is the Nancy Reeves Drewux Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.  Professor Zuckert has published extensively on a variety of toics, including George Orwell, Plato, Shakespeare and contemporary liberal theory.  He has received grants from NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Earhart Foundation and NSF, and has taught at Carlton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men's College, Fordham Univeristy, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago.

Sponsored by the Philosophy and Political Science Faculty

SLC Student Film Festival at Bronxville Cinemas, 84 Kraft Avenue!

Ed Hirsch and Brenda Shaughnessy: a poetry reading 

Ed Hirsch’s first volume, For the Sleepwalkers (1981) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; his second, Wild Gratitude (1986) won the award in 1987. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received a MacArthur “genius” award in 1997. His numerous other awards include an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. Hirsch is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), which was nominated for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.

Mayfair: Westlands Lawn Tent

Sarah Lawrence College’s Annual Mayfair, a community outreach carnival for children ages 5-10. Minigolf Games – A Tiger Bounce-House – Climb-‘N-Slide $5 per Person or $20 per Family.

Questions: Call Jason Gloe, Assistant Director of Student Activities (914) 395-2575

Sponsored by Students for Students Scholarship Fund (SSSF), the Early Childhood Center, and the Office of Residence Life.

Patrick Romano, director

Sarah Lawrence Chamber Choir and Women's Vocal Ensemble perform Holst's "Spring and Summer", "The Pelican" by Randal Thompson, and more!

Lecture by Asef Bayat, Agha Khan Professor in Islamic Humanities at Brown University. His publications include: Life as Politics, How Ordinary people Change the Middle East Making Islam Democratic, and Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Street Politics.

Centuries of extremely unequal land distribution in Latin America and the juxtaposition of a few wealthy landowners and masses of impoverished rural producers have generated widespread conflict and demands for change. Frederick Royce, who has worked with farmers’ cooperatives in Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil, and the southern United States, will address related on-farm issues in the context of contemporary agrarian reform.

Sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS)

Glenn Alexander, director

Sarah Lawrence's finest jazz ensembles swing in Marshall Field

Community Organizing Against Law Enforcement Injustice: From Trayvon Martin to the NYPD to Jena Six. A talk by Jordhan Flaherty, New Orleans community organizer, international journalist, and author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. Brought to you by the global studies faculty with generous assistance from the Diversity and Activism Programming Subcommittee, the Graduate Program in Women's History, the Office of Community Partnerships, and the Sociology Department.

Artists in Residence

The Cygnus Ensemble, Artists in Residence and award recipients from the Library of Congress perform compositions by SLC student composers.

Westlands South Lawn (rain location: Reisinger Concert Hall, 6:00 p.m.)

Jonathan T. King, director

Sarah Lawrence's talented Bluegrass group plays open air on the South Lawn.

Fasa Foli: African Balafon and Djembe Ensemble.

Westlands South Lawn (rain location: TBA)

Fomoro Diobate, Andy Algire and Jonathan T. King, directors

Get your rhythm on with the African percussion ensemble on the South Lawn.

Location to be announced.  Call 914-395-2407

Glenn Alexander, director

Sarah Lawrence Blues Bands get their soul on - in the always popular Night of the Blues event.

Spring Concert - Performances on Friday May 4 at 7:30pm and Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm.

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Senior recital showcasing vocalist Samantha Friedman, winner of the prestigious Presser Award.

Spring Concert - Performances on Friday May 4 at 7:30pm and Saturday May 5 at 7:30pm.

Program of dances created by student choreographers, mentored by faculty.

Sungrai Sohn, director

Suna Chung, piano

Culminating showcase of various ensembles from the Sarah Lawrence chamber music program

The Graduate Writing Oral History Class will be hosting ORAL HISTORY IS JAZZ, a multimedia exhibit displaying projects based on interviews conducted over the course of the semester. Interviewee's include an ex mob associate, a Cuban exile, a Filipino revolutionary and a failed cyclist. There will be readings performed by students, a French-Jewish Rapper and many others. This event will also feature a performance by world-renowned author and performance artist, PENNY ARCADE. Refreshments will be provided. For more information about PENNY ARCADE, visit http://pennyarcade.tv/.

Glenn Alexander, director

Students from the Sarah Lawrence studios jazz it up in their end of year celebration.

The Graduate Writing Oral History class proudly presents FOR YOUR INFORMATION, a series of monologues based on the remarkable interviews of previously incarcerated women. The women were interviewed at HOUR CHILDREN, an organization established by nuns, such as Sister Tesa, who offer guidance and support for women and their children as they create a new life. The women who have shared their stories will be in attendance.  Following the performance, there will be a Q and A discussion with both the cast members and student interviewees. The Performance will be delivered by professional actors. For more information about HOUR CHILDREN, visit http://hourchildren.org/.

Tickets are required for the 84th Commencement.For additional information, please visit:

http://www.slc.edu/news-events/events/commencement/index.html

Please find below helpful general information about the Sarah Lawrence College 84th Annual Commencement. If you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact the Office of College Events at (914) 395-2412 or collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu.

The Commencement Ceremony will be held Friday, May 18. The ceremony takes place under a tent (rain or shine) on Westlands South Lawn. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. and generally lasts 2 to 2 ½ hours. A light reception on the North Lawn follows the ceremony.

Space at Commencement is very limited: we can accommodate four guests for each graduate and each graduate will receive only four invitations. The invitations will include four tickets, which are required for admittance to the ceremony. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and begins at 7:30 a.m. Graduates will be notified when tickets are available for pick up in the Office of College Events. This is usually in late April.

Live broadcast of the Commencement ceremony will be available in Reisinger Auditorium. This open, general seating will be available at 10:05 a.m., after the processional has entered the tent.

Sarah Lawrence College works to ensure that appropriate accommodations and services are provided for students and their guests at commencement in accordance with The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you anticipate needing accommodations for a ticketed guest, please contact College Events at collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu or by mail. All requests must be made in writing prior to May 4. Ticketed guests must be pre-registered for special seating. There will be sign language interpreters. If you are of need of this service, please send an email to collegeevents@sarahlawrence.edu.

The entire Commencement tent is ADA accessible.

On Commencement Day, you may park in any Sarah Lawrence parking lot. College Security will direct you to parking areas when you arrive on the campus. Once all lots are full, there will be a designated overflow parking area at the Cross County Mall and shuttle service to/from the SLC campus. Please note that parking on any side street or Kimball Avenue may result in a ticket from the City of Yonkers.

There will be shuttle service to/from the Metro-North Bronxville station before and after the ceremony.

Because we know how important this day is to students and their families, the College has arranged for a professional photographer to take a video of the entire ceremony as well as two pictures of every student. The first picture is taken as the student receives their diploma case from the president, and the second after the student has exited the stage, diploma case in hand. These pictures and the video will be available for purchase a few weeks after Commencement; an order form for the video and one for the still photographs will each be mailed to the student's home address. We hope that this will enable families to sit comfortably in their seats with the reassurance that they will have a professionally produced photographic recording of this very special moment. We ask that parents and guests who feel they must take a photograph with their own camera be considerate of those around them and make note of our guidelines:

• Parents and guests should not stand up in their row, as this will block the view of those seated behind them
• Please do not block or stand in the aisles

Adam Savage will address the 2012 graduates on Friday, May 18. Adam is well known as the co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters. The purpose of MythBusters is to educate with stealth: using the scientific method in entertaining and often explosive ways to test the validity of urban legends, historical legends and conspiracy theories. The program has inspired children and adults to delve more deeply into science, math, engineering and technology. More than a co-host of a television series, Adam is well-known for his accomplishments in industrial design, special effects design and fabrication. Off set, he is an ardent promoter of critical thinking and science education. Adam holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Traditionally, Commencement Week is a wonderful opportunity for graduates to relax and spend time with their fellow graduates and faculty at events like the Senior Lecture and the Graduates Dance. Seniors are welcome to remain in their residence halls during this week but students must vacate their rooms before 8 p.m. on Friday, May 18. There can be no exceptions. Residence halls close on May 13 at 5 p.m. for other students who are not graduating.

Families are welcome to visit campus Thursday, May 17, from 4-6 p.m. There will be an informal reception in the afternoon in the Heimbold Visual Arts Building and President's House Garden.