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Lectures and Readings

  • Poetry Reading by Cate Marvin, Cathy Park Hong, Brian Gilmore, and Kenny Carroll
  • Science Seminar Series: "The Role of Water in Protein-Lig and Interactions"
    A lecture by Thomas Young of the Yeshiva University Chemistry Faculty
  • Climate Change: Human Causes and Responses, A lecture by Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences Students at a lecture
  • History of Darfur and Sudan
    Anthropology professor Katie Kilroy-Marac talks about Darfur and Sudan, explaining the complicated history of this violent region.
  • Janet Vertesi, Cornell University Department of Science & Technology Studies
     Presentation of her intellectual autobiography.
  • Science Seminar Series
    Eavesdropping on the Brain: An Exploration of Human Selective Attention Using ERP'S
  • The Helen Merrell Lynd Colloquium: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Jean Baker Miller '48
  • Graduate Program in Writing, Reading Series
    A reading with Richard Bausch, author of seven short story collections and 10 novels, most recently Thanksgiving Nights and Wives and Lovers: 3 Short Novels
  • Women's History Lecture Series
    Lecture from historian Elsa Barkley Brown, "The Historian’s Process: How Do You Give Voice to the Voiceless?"
  • Graduate Program in Writing, Reading Series
    Autobiographical writer Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist’s Daughter
  • Graduate Program in Writing, Reading Series
    Poet Heather McHugh
  • New Orleans Coalition Presents: The Report Back
    Students will present their perspectives on localities such as the 9th Ward, French Quarter, and even Baton Rouge; as well as insider views on volunteer organizations such as Common Ground, Acorn and The Red Cross.
  • Christine Hong, from the University of California, Berkeley, will be speaking about "Repatriating Wartime Memory: U.S. Reception and the Testimonial Comics Image in 'Citizen 13660'and 'Barefoot Gen.'" Presented by the Global Studies department.
  • Rival Perspectives on Neoliberalism: Is there a Consensus in the Controversy?
    A presentation by Jamee K. Moudud of the economics faculty to express disagreement with much of the current debates on neoliberalism.
  • Complexities of Race in Contemporary American Society Lecture Series
    Tommie Shelby, author of the landmark study We Who Are Dark, will lecture on the relevance of racial identity for both morality and social criticism as part of this lecture series.
  • Bruce Friedrich, the vice-president of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the largest animal rights group in the world, will speak.
  • Imani Henry
    The activist and writer will be speaking and leading a workshop entitled, "Building Solidarity between People of Color, Feminists, and Queers."
  • Mark Strand
    A reading with the former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of Dark Harbor, The Story of Our Lives, Reasons for Moving, and Blizzard of One.
  • Fox Trump
    The French poet, Marie Borel and her translator, the American poet Sarah Riggs, will be reading selections from Borel's book, Fox Trump, in French and from the forthcoming English translation.
  • A reading with non-fiction writer and essayist Jane Brox, author of Here and Nowhere Else and Five Thousand Days Like This One.
  • The Origins of the Illegal Immigration Crisis
    A lecture presented by Mae Ngai.
  • Translating Humor: Equivalence, Compensation, Discourse
    Can humor travel between languages and cultures? A talk about the losses and exorbitant gains of translation by Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University.
  • Queer at Work
    A panel discussion addressing such questions as: How can a job be queer? How can identity influence work environment and where can being LGBT take you in terms of a career?
  • Math x Science + Poetry = Reading
    A poetry reading celebrating math and science, featuring math/science professors Dan King, Scott Calvin and Ray Clarke; literature/writing professors Bill Shullenberger, Jeffrey McDaniel, Dennis Nurkse, and Kevin Pilkington.
  • The Art of Smiling
    A lecture by Peter S. Hawkins on Dante's Divine Comedy
  • American Foreign Policy and the Fall Elections
    A panel discussion featuring George Packer, Fawaz Gerges, Kristin Zahra Sands, and Nicolaus Mills.
  • Jorie Graham
    A reading with the author of "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994", winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
  • Discussion: "What the Media Teach About Race" with Dr. Carlos E. Cortés
  • An Evening with LGBT Parents: Becoming Parents, Living as Parents
    Event will feature a moderated panel of parents who will talk about their lives and their parenting experiences.
  • Cool Science, Hot Pizza
    A yearly series exploring all things cool in science and mathematics with three faculty members sharing some aspect of their field that they find fascinating.
  • Racial and Ethnic Diversity Film Series: Viewing Race, the Media, and Stereotypes in the U.S.
    Films include "Race: the Power of an Illusion", "Bamboozled", "A Girl Like Me", and "Slip of the Tongue" with discussions to follow. Also part of this series: In Whose Honor: American Indian Mascots in Sports and Discussion: "What's in a Name?"
  • "Unbreakable You"
    Appearance with faculty member and novelist Brian Morton about his new book.
  • Colloquium on Climate Change
  • Marcellus Andrews, "The Political Economy of Earth, Irritated" Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Elizabeth Kolbert, "Field Notes from a Catastrophe"
  • Cynthia Rosenzweig, "Climate Change Matters: Systems, Sectors, and Solutions"
  • Milton, Malcolm X, and African American Literature
    A lecture by Reginald Wilburne from the Univ. of Connecticut.
  • So This Is Opera?
    Featuring Wayne Sanders and Eddye Pierce Young.
  • Beehive Collectives
    Picture-lecture on Dismantling Monoculture: Tales of Ants and Economics in the Americas.
  • Poetry Craft Talk
    Featuring Matthew Rorher, Brenda Shaughnessy, Jeff McDaniel, Cathy Park-Hong
  • The Future of Political Islam
    Featuring Emad Shahin, visiting scholar, Harvard Law School.
  • 8 Women: A Karaoke Murder Mystery
  • Community Outreach Shelter-Pet Alliance Adoption
  • The Rise of the Mutician: Remaking Music in the Digital Age
    Evan Eisenberg Lecture
  • Forensic Exhumations: Pursuing Justice from the Grave
    Clea Koff
  • Speaking the Unspeakable
    Featuring Ray McGovern, retired CIA analyst speaking on Torture and Indefinite Detention
  • Diverge with Derrick Brown
    Runner up to the National Poetry Slam Championship
  • Sarah Lawrence Translation Series
    Translation and Globalization: English as an invasive species
  • Rebuild Green
    Former Black Panther and Green Party activist, Malik Rahim, to speak on New Orleans
  • Presentation of Llamame Brooklyn
    Reading by prize winning author and faculty Eduardo Lago
  • From Language to Language Film Screening
    Filmmaker Nurith Aviv discusses the relationship between Israeli's mother tongues and Hebrew.
  • Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education
  • Welcoming the Unbidden: The Case for Conserving Human Biodiversity
  • Beyond Borders: Latin American/Latino Studies Lecture Series
  • Edmundo Desnoes, the author of "Memorias del Subdesarrollo/Memories of Underdevelopment," will speak following a screening of the film adapted from his book.
  • A lecture by Salim Lamrani entitled, "The Case of the Cuban Five: A Disquieting History Censored by the U.S. Media"
  • Alejandro de le Fuento, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh to speak.
  • Historian Sinclair Thomas to speak on indigenous politics in Bolivia.
  • Science Seminar Series
    Seminar double feature: Joe Bramante '07 and Alissa Pham '07 present their current research projects: "Tums in the Troposphere: Studying Atmospheric Particles with X-Ray Spectroscopy" and "The Two Hybrid System: What Interacts with Class II Transactivator?"
  • Sarah Wilcox of the Sarah Lawrence Sociology faculty presents, "I Don't Need Science to Tell Me I Was Born This Way: Biology, Identity, Knowledge Communities and the Diffusion of Ideas About Sexuality", an event part of Coming Out Month.
  • Christoph Geiss on magnetic properties of soils and mid-continental climate change.
  • David Moulton of The Center for Communications Research, "Representing Powers of Numbers as Subset Sums of Small Sets"
  • Artistic Explorations in Computer Programming: Toward a New Video-Game Paradigm
  • Earth's Inner Core: Discoveries and Conjectures
  • NMR Studies of Short-Range Structure and Dynamics in lithium Battery Materials
  • "Evolutionary patterns in the transition between the terrestrial and epiphytic habit in orchids (Orchidaceae)"
  • Geology and Paleontology of the Hudson Valley and Adjacent Areas
    A presentation by Howard Feldman, American Museum of Natural History
  • Elements of Murder: The Dark Side of the Periodic Table
    Part of the annual Science and Mathematics Lecture reading featuring John Emsley.
  • The Purple Pen
    Queer-themed writings by students and faculty
  • 6 X 6
    Undergraduate and Graduate students read for six minutes each
  • Lectures & Readings"What Next?"
    Iraq, Bush and the Future of American Foreign Policy
  • "My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner" by Israeli author and journalist Meir Shalev  
  • Morty Diamond Lecture/Slide Show/Film Screening
  • "After Saddam: A View From Europe"
    The annual Adda B. Bozeman lecture on International Affairs, delivered by journalist and author William Shawcross.
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