The Marlboro Institute puts the “I” at the center of your education.
Students pursuing an academic major through the Marlboro Institute complete an Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program of their own design around a coherent idea or set of questions. It is crafted to uphold Marlboro College’s distinctive educational promise that students can craft their own education, engage in self-directed inquiry, and bring a big idea to life from conception to execution.
02/08/2024
Join us for an EPI Book Celebration! Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/UnlockingLearning.
We will be celebrating Professor Mneesha Gellman and Justin McDevitt's recent publication, Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison on February 13 from 4:00-5:30 PM in the Bill Bordy Theater!
01/22/2024
Marlboro Institute Faculty and students are invited to celebrate the start of the new semester!
Join us for breakfast food and good company this Wednesday, January 24th
from 10:30am-12:30pm in the community classroom, Walker 504.
10/17/2023
Join the Emerson Prison Initiative tomorrow for a screening of College Behind Bars, a documentary film directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, which tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative.
Panel discussion to follow.
Register for free tickets at:
https://college-behind-bars.eventbrite.com
10/04/2023
Students and faculty - join us for our weekly writing sessions in Walker 504, Wednesdays from 9:00-11:45am! Light refreshments will be provided.
10/04/2023
Join us October 5 at 2pm in the CoLab Room for a celebration of Assistant Professor Ioana Jucan's new book, Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machines and Performative Objects. Refreshments will be served.
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Malicious Deceivers traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet.
09/15/2023
Faculty and students, please join us for a social event next Wednesday, Sept. 20th in our community classroom and student lounge on the 5th floor of Walker. We hope to see you there!
06/13/2023
Looking back on pictures of our annual spring gathering of IDS students and faculty on Boston Common, trying to will some of this nice weather to finally materialize this summer!
05/22/2023
We are proud to announce that Marlboro Institute graduating seniors won both college-wide undergraduate awards at the 2023 Emerson College Commencement Ceremony! The recipients were:
President's Citation- Pranit Chand, IDS major, Blockchain & Digital Creative Economy
Dean of Campus Life Award- Evonne Johnson, IDIP major, Stage & Screen Design Technology
Congratulations to them & all our 2023 graduates!
04/26/2023
Congratulations to Professor Amer Latif, Associate Professor of Religion, for receiving the 2023 Helaine and Stanley Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching! This award is given to one faculty member annually based in large part on nominations from students and faculty regarding classroom excellence. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your students!
03/24/2023
Watch Dr. Andrade-Watkins' feature documentary, "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story this coming Sunday and Tuesday, links available on spiamedia.com.
"SKFPR is the untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. Poignant, heartfelt and warm, in a timeless snapshot SKFPR captures the essence, spirit and heart of a community whose history was erased before it was written." (spiamedia.com)
03/15/2023
Thank you to all those who came out to our IDS Student Visual Art Salon! Guests enjoyed sushi & sparkling cider while taking in the work of Fiona Brown ('25), David Effron ('26), Anderson Hauptli ('24), and Julia Lippman ('25).
01/23/2023
Join us Thursday in the Marlboro Institute suite for some French treats to celebrate the start of the spring semester!
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| Friday | 9am - 5pm |