Media + Migration Lab Spring 2026 Newsletter IN FOCUS: Invasive Kin: Rooting With Our Plant Relatives This season, the Media + Migration Lab turns its attention to the ground beneath our feet — to the plants that have crossed oceans, taken root in cracked pavements and forgotten lots, and persisted despite being labeled threats. Our …
Over three weeks in late summer 2023, the Franco-American collective Le Ratoire canoed the length of the Hudson River — the Mahicannittuk — from Troy to New York City, filming on 16mm and developing each night’s footage using invasive plants foraged along the banks: mugwort, Japanese knotweed, wood ash from bonfire, and the river’s own …
From the Archives . . . The Wall: Oppression and Resistance by Sumita S. Chakravarty Keywords: surveillance state, wall, deportation, authoritarianism At the end the Stasi had 97,000 employees –more than enough to oversee a country of seventeen million people. But it also had over 173,000 informers among the population. In Hitler’s Third …
by Sumita S. Chakravarty Ideas of home and belonging, long a staple of migration as lived reality and structure of consciousness in that home is often defined in the very act of leaving it, have once again become food for thought during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the earliest impacts as institutions started to …
