For nearly a decade, the Teach-In On Race (2016–2025) served as a forum for critical dialogue at Emerson. The inaugural Teach-In on Timely Topics 2026 theme of Public Memory, Knowledge, and Legacy offers a unique opportunity to honor our institutional history.
We invite all Emersonians—alumni, students, faculty, and staff—to help us formally transition the history of the original Teach-In into the College Archives through a participatory act of collective memory-making. Explore previous Teach-In on Race events (log-in required).
To help us build this record, consider contributing to it through our online submission form. Example submission ideas are listed below. Please email archives [at] emerson.edu (archives[at]emerson[dot]edu) with any questions.
Archive Project Submission Ideas:
- The Personal Impact: Record a specific moment from a Teach-In On Race workshop or speaker that changed your perspective or influenced your work or education at Emerson.
- The "Vibe": Submit a piece of art or write a description of the atmosphere of the Teach-Ins. What did it feel like to be in those rooms? What was the energy or the emotional "weight" of the day?
- Digital Artifacts: Photos of posters, copies of session programs, or even screenshots of live-tweets and digital discussions from past years.
- Creative Responses: A poem, artwork, or a fiction story reflecting on what The Teach-In means to you.
- The "Unspoken": Reflections on the difficult conversations, the silences, or the challenges that these sessions brought to the surface.
- Lasting Connections: Stories of a collaboration, friendship, or student organization that was born out of a Teach-In session.
- Institutional Memory: How did the Teach-In on Race shift (or fail to shift) the culture of your department or the College at large?
- A "Letter to the Future": What do you want a person in 2045 to know about the conversations we were having at the Teach-In On Race between 2016 and 2025?
Please note that each upload may include a maximum of 10 items with a combined 2 GB size limit. Multiple submissions may be required for larger files and/or more than 10 items.