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Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Witches of El Paso. He is also the author of the award-winning short story collection The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, BOMB Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. His honors include fellowships from Aspen Words, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the New York Institute for the Humanities. He is an associate professor of creative writing at The New School. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here for the Zoom livestream.

This play is about dead people talking in a hospital room. As they try to pass the indefinite time through playing card games, the current coma patient's finance comes to visit who also is someone from Dead Person's One romantic past enters the room. An explosion of repressed feelings, religious trauma, and seeing but no touching. This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading Series.

Marci Shore, Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, in conversation with Sarah Lawrence history faculty Philipp Nielsen.

A question many ask with great urgency these days is, “What can we learn from history?” Marci Shore, an intellectual historian focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, has engaged with this question in her academic career and increasingly as a public intellectual. In her dialogue and cooperation with Eastern and Central European intellectuals, Shore herself has become entangled in the region’s politics, most notably in her defense of Ukrainian independence but also of democracy more widely. This engagement is also no longer limited to Europe. Shore comments frequently on the state of politics in the United States. In conversation with Sarah Lawrence History faculty member Philipp Nielsen, Shore will explore what it means to be an engaged historian, what we can learn from history, and how it matters to ourselves, to our societies, and to international relations.

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Collaborative concert: Westchester Chamber Soloists featuring SLC Students & Faculty:

Rafael Hendrick-Baker: Music for Shenandoah

Kate Cornyn:  Tchaikovsky’s ‘Marche Slave’

Renae Sullivan:  Donizetti’s ‘La Fille du Regiment’ / Strauss ‘Morgen’

Lazar Nelkovski: original work (tba)

Dena Brennan:  Mark Camphouse’s ‘from Three London Miniatures’

PROKOFIEV:  Peter and the Wolf

Prof. Martin Goldray, conductor

Narrator: Ayala Dinour

Please join us on Monday, April 13th at 6:30 for an evening of song with the voice studio of Sarah Wolfson with Michael Maronich on piano.

Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her first novel, So Many Olympic Exertions, was published by Kaya Press in 2017. It was a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Finalist. Her second book, Clam Down (One World), based on her brief stint as the Paris Review Daily's "mollusk correspondent," was published in June 2025. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Awardee. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, The Believer, McSweeney's, BOMB, The New Republic, NPR, Village Voice, Conjunctions, and more.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Wendy S. Walters is a Creative Capital Awardee in literary nonfiction and the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, Huffington Post, and others. She is also the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem, 2014) and Longer I Wait, More You Love Me. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Yale Review, The Iowa Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Full Bleed, and Harper's among many others. Her current projects address intersections between writing and design, climate change and its reverberations, class and racial disquietude in the industrial Midwest, and organic forms in the essay. Walters is Associate Professor of Nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

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This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Voice students perform one song they have studied this semester. The songs include classics from 70's, 80's & 90's pop, jazz standards, musical theater as well as German & Italian art songs and arias.