Events

Join medical practitioners Dr. Marji Gold '69, Professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and founder of RHEDI (Reproductive Health Education In Family Medicine); Dr. DeShawn Taylor, MSc, FACOG, clinical professor, women's health and reproductive rights advocate, and owner of Desert Star Family Planning in Phoenix; and Dr. Bhavik Kumar, MPH, Medical Director for Primary and Trans Care at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston, for a conversation on the many health ramifications the Dobbs decision has on pregnant people. This panel will explore the ramifications on carrying a pregnancy to term, miscarriage, and ectopic pregnancies with a focus on existing and worsening race, gender, and class disparities. We will also hear about the erosion of medical training and patient/provider decision-making due to the Dobbs decision. A zoom link to participate will be shared with registrants within 24 hours of the event. 

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This year’s Breakthrough Screening Series will feature a screening of SLC guest faculty member Beth Levison’s documentary film Storm Lake. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Beth Levison and the film's Impact Producer Alice Quinlan SLC ’11 with a reception afterward.

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A reading with Carmen Maria Machado, followed by brief audience Q&A 

To launch the History Matters event series this semester, historian Brett Gary will introduce his book, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution, an award-winning study of key legal battles over literary and sexual censorship from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. 

The last 40 years has been a revolutionary time for atomic, molecular, and optical physics.  During that time there have been a number of major breakthroughs and experiments that have developed an increasing level of control over atoms and molecules, leading to fantastic scientific tools such as extremely sensitive clocks, Bose-Einstein Condensation, and quantum computing that allow us to study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.  In this talk, Matthew Wright will introduce many of these concepts and discuss his teams' own research projects.  Professor Wright and his team are working toward using frequency-chirped laser light on the nanosecond time scale to control atomic excitation and collisions in complex systems with cold atoms.  Toward this end, they have developed a novel laser system that generates rapid arbitrarily frequency chirped lasers. 

Matthew Wright is the chair of the physics department at Adelphi University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and obtained his undergraduate physics degree from Westminster College (PA).  Before becoming a professor, Wright held physics research appointments at Harvard University and Innsbruck University.  He was also a management consultant at Princeton Consultants for 3 years focusing on logistics.  In addition to research interests in atomic physics, he continues to focus on building a student-first community which has lead to mentoring 40 students in physics research and 15 op-eds on building community in higher education.

This faculty/staff panel will explore the notion of the archive from various vantage points. Panelists will include: Matthew H. Ellis (History); Margarita Fajardo (History); Roy Ben-Shai (Philosophy); Sophie Barbasch (Visual Arts/Photography); and Christina Kasman (College Archivist).

Memory is a malleable, unreliable narrator, yet is integral to creating impactful personal essays and memoir. In this craft discussion, we’ll discuss techniques to connect memory to the page and how to lean into memory gaps, as opposed to becoming blocked. We’ll also examine practices that can lay a foundation for future writing about your life, points of access to your past, and how to integrate primary source documents in your work.

Alisson Wood’s award-winning writing has been published in the New York Times, The Paris Review, The Rumpus, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Alisson holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and teaches creative writing at her alma mater. She is the founder and Editor in Chief of Pigeon Pages, a NYC literary journal and reading series. Her first book, Being Lolita: A Memoir, was published by Flatiron Books in 2020.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

The four authors of Culturally Sustaining Language and Literacy Practices for PreK-3 Classrooms: The Children Come Full will discuss a framework for culturally sustaining early literacy teaching that can support working towards greater equity in schools and resist a deficit-oriented, one-size-fits-all view of children and families. They will share examples of some of the ways that early childhood and elementary educators can create classrooms that welcome, center, and build on the knowledge, experiences, languages, cultures, and ways of knowing and being that all children already bring to school. Jerusha Beckerman, Interim Director of the Art of Teaching program at Sarah Lawrence College, will moderate the conversation between the authors.

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