February 2021
A Book Club Won’t Save Us: ‘See No Stranger’
A Book Club Won't Save Us (ABWSU) offers the Emerson community a four- or five-week series to "study, act, reflect, repeat." The first series of the Spring semester will center…
Find out more »MarComm Speaker Series: Women in Business Leadership
Rethinking Consumer Engagement: Leading with Empathy, Equity and Integrity The Department of Marketing Communication is pleased to present a free and public four-part Speaker Series exploring a new climate of decency that…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Welcome to Chechnya’
With searing urgency, Welcome to Chechnya shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2017,…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Marisol’
Emerson Stage presents Marisol, by José Rivera, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo. With the apocalypse well under way, the angels have traded in their wings for Uzis, and Marisol Perez, a…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Marisol’
Emerson Stage presents Marisol, by José Rivera, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo. With the apocalypse well under way, the angels have traded in their wings for Uzis, and Marisol Perez, a…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Marisol’
Emerson Stage presents Marisol, by José Rivera, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo. With the apocalypse well under way, the angels have traded in their wings for Uzis, and Marisol Perez, a…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Marisol’
Emerson Stage presents Marisol, by José Rivera, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo. With the apocalypse well under way, the angels have traded in their wings for Uzis, and Marisol Perez, a…
Find out more »A Book Club Won’t Save Us: ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’
A Book Club Won't Save Us (ABWSU) offers the Emerson community a four- or five-week series to "study, act, reflect, repeat." The second series of the Spring semester will center…
Find out more »Shared Stories: Encore Presentations
ArtsEmerson presents Shared Stories, a monthly film series in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF), and the Roxbury International Film Festival…
Find out more »MarComm Speaker Series: Reset Buttons — How Today’s Consumers Are Showing Us What Really Matters
Rethinking Consumer Engagement: Leading with Empathy, Equity and Integrity The Department of Marketing Communication is pleased to present a free & public four-part Speaker Series exploring a new climate of decency…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Coded Bias’
Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people…
Find out more »March 2021
WLP Faculty/Alumni Series: Asako Serizawa, MFA ’01
Asako Serizawa was born in Japan and grew up in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. A graduate of Tufts University, Brown University, and Emerson College, she has received two O. Henry Prizes,…
Find out more »In Conversation: Artist Georgie Friedman and Dr. Kerry Emanuel
Join MIT colleagues artist Georgie Friedman and Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Kerry Emanuel for a conversation at the intersection of science and art. In their virtual conversation, Friedman and Dr. Emanuel will discuss the science of climate change, its effects on extreme weather, and the role of art as a means for environmental awareness. RSVP at https://www.emersoncontemporary.org/.
Find out more »A Book Club Won’t Save Us: ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’
A Book Club Won't Save Us (ABWSU) offers the Emerson community a four- or five-week series to "study, act, reflect, repeat." The second series of the Spring semester will center…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Duty Free’
After a 75-year-old mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life. As she struggles to find work, he documents a…
Find out more »In Conversation with Dr. Jenn: Strengthening Relationships During COVID
Accomplished psychotherapist, author, and media personality Dr. Jenn Mann '91 joins her Emerson family for a discussion that marries mental health, building relationships, and strengthening communication during and after the…
Find out more »ArtsEmerson: ‘Brimful of Asha’
A real-life mother and son in a true, heartwarming story of family, marriage, and the quest for the perfect bride.
Find out more »‘I Won’t Give Up My Shot’: The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccination
Dr. Dena Davis How can we distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably in an inequitable society? Should we go by age, occupation, race, zip code? Or should we just throw up our hands and go…
Find out more »A Book Club Won’t Save Us: ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’
A Book Club Won't Save Us (ABWSU) offers the Emerson community a four- or five-week series to "study, act, reflect, repeat." The second series of the Spring semester will center…
Find out more »Art+ Tech+: Pierre Friquet
Join artist and immersive interactive designer Pierre Friquet as he discusses virtual reality, narrative design, and traumatology. Via tools of fiction like world-building, and innovation like social VR, Friquet explores…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘The Viewing Booth’
The Viewing Booth recounts a unique encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer — exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today’s day and age. In a…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Everybody’
Emerson Stage presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Annie G. Levy. In celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "very meta and saucy adaptation" (TONY) of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, an…
Find out more »WLP Faculty Book Celebration Spring 2021
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing Kim McLarin (James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked) is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, the memoir Divorce…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Everybody’
Emerson Stage presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Annie G. Levy. In celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "very meta and saucy adaptation" (TONY) of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, an…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Everybody’
Emerson Stage presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Annie G. Levy. In celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "very meta and saucy adaptation" (TONY) of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, an…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Everybody’
Emerson Stage presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Annie G. Levy. In celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "very meta and saucy adaptation" (TONY) of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, an…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Everybody’
Emerson Stage presents Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Annie G. Levy. In celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "very meta and saucy adaptation" (TONY) of Everyman, the 15th-century morality play, an…
Find out more »A Book Club Won’t Save Us: ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’
A Book Club Won't Save Us (ABWSU) offers the Emerson community a four- or five-week series to "study, act, reflect, repeat." The second series of the Spring semester will center…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan, a writer-in-residence for the Chickasaw Nation, is an internationally recognized public reader, speaker, and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. She is a former faculty member at Indian…
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‘Signing Black in America’ Screening & Discussion with Producers
Signing Black in America is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Black ASL today…
Find out more »Art+ Tech+: Violeta Ayala
Join artist, writer, and film director Violeta Ayala as she discusses the making of Prison X: The Devil and The Sun, an immersive Andean mythological "play" staged in virtual reality…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Morgana’
Morgana is an artistic character portrait of a 50-year-old housewife, who reinvents herself as a sex-positive feminist porn star. After 20 years as a dutiful housewife stuck in a loveless,…
Find out more »School of Communication Virtual Internship Fair
Online Location Instructions Students must sign up for Employer Video Sessions on Handshake, after registering for the fair. Description Connect with a variety of employers representing top employers in communications,…
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Teach-In on Race
This year's theme is The Year of Living Dangerously: Equity, Self-Care, and the Pursuit of Justice, and will feature panels with students, faculty, and special guests, with the goal of…
Find out more »Death of the Silver Screen: New Modes of Distribution
The Emerson College-Paris College of Art Global BFA in Film Art program is hosting Industry Talks, a series featuring top media talent and academic analysts exploring cutting edge art, global…
Find out more »Discussion: Free Speech and Insurrection
Affiliated faculty member Meg Mott Known as the Queen of Rights, the First Amendment protects our most basic rights. Thanks to those freedoms, Americans are able to protest, assemble, and…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Crutch’
Two decades of exclusive access, plus a lifetime of archival footage, depict Bill Shannon from his early years, to his rise as an award-winning dancer and cutting-edge performance artist whose…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘An Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister’
Emerson Stage presents the NewFest New Play Workshop, An Interior of the Artist Without Her Sister by Masha Obolensky, directed by Melia Bensussen. Emerson Stage presents a workshop production of a…
Find out more »WLP Publishing Series: Radhika Jones
Radhika Jones is the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Previously, Jones served as editorial director of the Books Department at The New York Times, deputy managing editor of Time, and managing…
Find out more »A Space for Grief and Reflection
In the year since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as we all knew it, we have all been called upon to practice more resilience and responsibility than usual. The losses…
Find out more »Art+ Tech+: Pamela Hersch
Join experimental video artist and musician Pamela Hersch as she discusses light as a public intervention in urban spaces and her use of the open tool suite TouchDesigner to create…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel’
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel reveals how the corporate takeover of society is being justified by the sly rebranding of corporations as socially conscious entities. From gatherings of corporate…
Find out more »April 2021
Emerson Stage: ‘Going to California’
Emerson Stage presents this year's NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award-winning play, Going to Calfornia, by Sabrina Sexaur, directed by Joe Antoun. The student winner of the 2021 Rod Parker Playwriting Award…
Find out more »WLP Scholar Series: Maria Koundoura
Dr. Maria Koundoura, professor in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department, is the author of The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities and Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Going to California’
Emerson Stage presents this year's NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award-winning play, Going to Calfornia, by Sabrina Sexaur, directed by Joe Antoun. The student winner of the 2021 Rod Parker Playwriting Award…
Find out more »Getting to Know Islam: A Workshop for the Emerson Community
Do you want to learn more about Islamophobia and how it affects us all? Want to gain insights about how to support Muslim students, staff, and faculty here at Emerson…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Going to California’
Emerson Stage presents this year's NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award-winning play, Going to Calfornia, by Sabrina Sexaur, directed by Joe Antoun. The student winner of the 2021 Rod Parker Playwriting Award…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Going to California’
Emerson Stage presents this year's NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award-winning play, Going to Calfornia, by Sabrina Sexaur, directed by Joe Antoun. The student winner of the 2021 Rod Parker Playwriting Award…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Going to California’
Emerson Stage presents this year's NewFest Rod Parker Playwriting Award-winning play, Going to Calfornia, by Sabrina Sexaur, directed by Joe Antoun. The student winner of the 2021 Rod Parker Playwriting Award…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Her Socialist Smile’
In his new film, VMA Professor John Gianvito meditates on a particular moment in early 20th-century history: when Helen Keller began speaking out passionately on behalf of progressive causes. Beginning…
Find out more »Getting to Know Islam: A Workshop for the Emerson Community
Do you want to learn more about Islamophobia and how it affects us all? Want to gain insights about how to support Muslim students, staff, and faculty here at Emerson…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson is a top speculative fiction writer, the author of numerous novels and short stories as well as the lead author of The House of Whispers, a…
Find out more »ArtsEmerson: ‘The Return of the Dragon’
A behind the scenes look at art making in a revolution. Dragón, Guillermo Calderón's latest work for the stage, is a story about a group of artists who meet to…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Generation Green New Deal’ Work-in-Progress Screening
For decades, the American political system has seemed incapable of taking on climate change at the scale necessary to address the growing crisis. In November 2018, the youth-led organization Sunrise…
Find out more »Emerson Stage: ‘Spring Awakening’
Emerson Stage presents Spring Awakening, a virtual production. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind. Directed by Diane DiCroce, music…
Find out more »WLP Presents: Anthony Cody Special Reading/Q&A
Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, April 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. His debut collection has been honored as a…
Find out more »ArtsEmerson Shared Stories Film Series: ‘Eating Up Easter’ and ‘Sky Aelans’
In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects…
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Annual E3 Pitch Competition
See this year's E3 (Emerson Experience in Entrepreneurship) cohort pitch the ventures they've been working on since September. This year's ventures include mobile apps, e-commerce fashion, a bakery subscription box,…
Find out more »May 2021
Emerson Week
Emerson Week is a College-wide, multi-day, online event that encompasses Commencement, Alumni Weekend, and so much more with live and on-demand content. This weeklong experience is for all members of…
Find out more »Honoring Emerson: A Retirement Event for Tom Cooper
The Spirit of Emerson Committee will host a special Zoom retirement event for Professor Tom Cooper called Honoring Emerson. Many current and former community leaders will attend. The event will…
Find out more »June 2021
Breaking into the Writers’ Room
How do you get hired as support staff in a writers’ room? These jobs – writers’ assistant, script coordinator, showrunner’s assistant, and writers’ production assistant – are seldom advertised. In…
Find out more »Exclusive Q&A with Disney+ Launchpad Filmmaker Hao Zheng ’15
Disney and Emerson Office of the Arts invite you to a exclusive LIVE event for the community at Emerson College! Join Disney+ Launchpad filmmakers, including Emerson alum Hao Zheng '15 and…
Find out more »September 2021
Emerge Series: The ‘What Do You Do?’ Workshop
If you struggle to answer the question, "What do you do?" you're not alone. What if talking about what you do (or want to do) felt easier, more authentic, and…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘On These Grounds’
An explosive video goes viral, showing a white school resource officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her desk and throw her across the floor. An outraged nation…
Find out more »WLP Publishing Series: Dorothy Wickenden
Dorothy Wickenden is the author of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights and the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996.…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series/Writers of Color Event: Matthew Salesses, MFA ’09
Matthew Salesses, MFA '09 is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely about adoption, race, and parenting for many national venues, including NPR’s Code Switch, The…
Find out more »FLI Forward: Preparing for Your Career
Chat with the Career Development Center about preparing for your career and life beyond Emerson! We'll focus on the journey of building your career communities and amplifying what you bring…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Fruits of Labor’
Set in an agricultural town on the central coast of California, Fruits of Labor is a coming of age story about an American teenager traversing the seen and unseen forces that keep…
Find out more »Where Journalism Can Take You: Investigation and Impact
For 14 months, a team of Boston Globe reporters investigated the nationwide trend of states’ failures to keep dangerous drivers off the road, resulting in additional, and at times fatal…
Find out more »October 2021
Strategic Marketing 4+1 Virtual Event
Join Emerson Graduate Admission for a virtual 4+1 Strategic Marketing Communication (MA) Information Session. As a 4+1 student, you’ll have the opportunity to receive your discounted master’s degree in just…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’
What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher uses a noted…
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6th Annual Blanquerna-Emerson Global Summit
All students and faculty are invited to the virtual 6th Annual Blanquerna-Emerson Global Summit, "Responding to a Disrupted World: New Narratives & Mediated Realities" Within a global pandemic, we live in…
Find out more »WLP Scholar Series: Rituparna Mitra on Traumascapes
Rituparna Mitra is assistant professor of Interdisciplinary and Postcolonial Studies in the Marlboro Institute at Emerson College. Her teaching and research interests cover comparative literatures of the Global South, trauma…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘United States vs. Reality Winner’
A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old NSA contractor Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock’
A group of indigenous women risk their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water, and entire way of life. Despite the desecration…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘maɬni: towards the ocean, towards the shore’
This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their…
Find out more »November 2021
Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Soy Cubana’
Soy Cubana began as a documentary short which followed a unique Afro-Cuban female a cappella quartet, the Vocal Vidas, in their daily lives and artistic process. Their infectious spirit, precise…
Find out more »WLP Scholar Series: Gülşah Taşkın and ‘A Digital Model for Ottoman Textual Studies’
Join Writing, Literature and Publishing for a Scholar Series event, "A Digital Model for Ottoman Textual Studies: The Baki Project," with Gülşah Taşkın, assistant professor in the Department of Turkish Language…
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WLP Reading Series: Aminatta Forna
Join us for a Q&A with Aminatta Forna at 6:00 pm ET on Zoom. Moderated by Professor Steve Yarbrough. After a short break, a reading will follow at 8:00…
Find out more »WLP Popular Fiction Reading Series: Lana Harper
Lana Harper, MA '12 studied psychology and literature at Yale University and law at Boston University. She is a graduate of the Emerson College publishing and writing program and the…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Not Going Quietly’
A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff…
Find out more »Digital Marketing and Data Analytics Virtual Open House
Join Marketing Communication to learn about the in-demand Digital Marketing and Data Analytics (DMDA) online master's program at Emerson. Hear from: Serei Eng, graduate program director Paula Underhill, admissions counselor…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘No Ordinary Man’
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-20th century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late…
Find out more »December 2021
Bright Lights Film Series: ‘No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics’
No Straight Lines tells the story of five scrappy and pioneering cartoonists who depicted everything from the AIDS crisis, coming out, and same-sex marriage, to themes of race, gender, and…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’
Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional…
Find out more »VR Documentary Showcase: Beyond Mass Incarceration
In partnership with the Federal Probation Office’s Nurturing Fatherhood Program, students, probation officers, formerly incarcerated fathers, and their children have collaborated to tell fathers’ stories using virtual reality platforms. Through…
Find out more »Bright Lights Film Series: ‘The Gig Is Up’
The gig economy is worth over $5 trillion globally, and growing. And yet the stories of the workers behind this tech revolution have gone largely neglected. Who are the people…
Find out more »January 2022
Emerging Conversations: Social Without Shade
Join Alumni Engagement for the kickoff event in their Emerging Conversations series! They'll chat with Emerson alumni who have leveraged social media (with followers in the millions) to build their…
Find out more »February 2022
WLP Reading Series: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of a book of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, & Other Astonishments, which was named a finalist for the Kirkus…
Find out more »WLP Scholar Series: Energy Infrastructures in Black Speculative Fiction
Energy infrastructures such as pipelines and cables are not often the focus of literary representation. Environmental injustice is often perpetuated, however, by the very "banality of infrastructure," which perhaps makes…
Find out more »Emerging Conversations: Taking the Stress Out of Personal Finance
Join the Alumni Association for the next event in their new Emerging Conversations series! This month they'll chat with three Emerson alumni who will demystify and de-stress the concept of…
Find out more »‘Sankofa’: A Celebration
Join a live panel discussion celebrating Haile Gerima's landmark film, Sankofa, historical equity, and justice. Panelists are Emerson Professor of Media and Africana Studies Claire Andrade-Watkins, assistant to the producer…
Find out more »EBONI Virtual Performance: Valerie Stephens
Performing artist Valerie Stephens will use music and storytelling and the works of Phillis Wheatley, William Waring Cuney, Brenda Walcott, and the Combahee River Collective to explore the history and…
Find out more »March 2022
WLP Popular Fiction Reading Series: Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young adult trilogy, which came out in April 2021. Up next: Never Say You Can't…
Find out more »WLP Publishing Series: Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor at Columbia Journalism School and a staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2015 Sidney…
Find out more »Emerging Conversations: The Path to Getting Published (and Beyond)
Hear from published Emersonians about the road to publishing a book and how a writer's life takes shape in our next installment of the Emerging Conversations: Learning for Life series. We’ll talk about…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn is the author of 10 books of poems, including Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020); Brain Fever (Norton, 2014), and Toxic Flora (Norton, 2010), both collections prompted by…
Find out more »April 2022
Social Justice Academy: Yavilah McCoy
Yavilah McCoy is a pioneer of the Jewish diversity and equity movement, and an advocate and mentor for the empowerment of a transglobal community of Jews of Color. A renowned…
Find out more »Social Justice Academy: Yavilah McCoy
Yavilah McCoy is a pioneer of the Jewish diversity and equity movement, and an advocate and mentor for the empowerment of a transglobal community of Jews of Color. A renowned…
Find out more »Emerging Conversations: Reclaim Your Work Mojo without Losing Your Mind
If you're running on empty lately, you're not alone. Join us for a fascinating conversation with alumnae experts on how to address burnout, and ways to rekindle our flames for…
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