Sarah Lawrence College Kicks Off Academic Year Event Series

Sarah Lawrence College President Cristle Collins Judd will be in conversation with Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, on Tuesday, September 28, the first event in the College’s 2021-22 academic year event series.

Established in 2017 with the arrival of Judd as president, this annual event series builds on Sarah Lawrence’s history as a convening place to discuss ideas, research, and current events. A marketplace for knowledge traded through discourse and dialogue, the College seeks to bring various audiences together in conversation each year for an in-depth exploration of a timely topic. This year’s chosen topic is Belonging.

Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a TIME magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.

This free event is being held virtually on Zoom, and all are welcome.

Interior Chinatown: Migration, Citizenship, Belonging
Featuring Charles Yu
Tuesday, September 28
6-7 p.m.
Register online