By Victoria Hochman, Manager of PR and Strategic Planning, Sarah Lawrence College

Jan. 16, 2019:  Sarah Lawrence College’s provocative new conversation series, Difference in Dialogue, will feature photographer and documentary maker Susan Meiselas on January 28. Meiselas, whose work uses photography as a medium for social change, will lead a discussion with author and contemporary critic Eduardo Cadava and photographer and artist Joel Sternfeld.

The program starts at 7:15 pm and will be held at the Heimbold Visual Arts Center Donnelley Film Theatre on the Sarah Lawrence campus at 1 Mead Way.

Difference in Dialogue is a new series that provides an opportunity for connection, conversation, interaction, reflection, and reasoned disagreement between participants with contrasting viewpoints.

The series is open to the public. To RSVP, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Click here to learn about future programs.

More about the program’s participants:

Susan Meiselas, who graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1970, is a documentary photographer, author, and director well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. She started her career teaching in the South Bronx using the camera to help connect and provoke discussions with her students. This quickly turned into a photography career using her art for social change, from her studies of carnival strippers to her documenting political upheaval in Nicaragua and Kurdistan. In 1992, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2015 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present, was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Eduardo Cadava is an author, contemporary critic, and theorist specializing in American literature and culture, comparative literature, media technologies and theory, political theory, and translation theory. He is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School and Princeton University. He is currently working on a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning and co-directing a multiyear project on the relationship between political conflict and climate change.

Joel Sternfeld is a photographer/artist with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and a Prix de Rome, he is the author of American Prospects, On This Site, Stranger Passing, and ten other books. Sternfeld holds the Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College. 

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