Moving Stories: Migration, Advocacy, Art, and Scholarship in Conversation

Moving Stories brings together participants from scholarship, the art field, and advocacy to discuss the challenges of incorporating and honoring the dignity of immigrant narratives in different practices. Following the format of a critical conversation, the discussion will touch on relevant topics such as the presence of surveillance and climate change and its impact on migratory movements, the challenges involved in researching long-term immigrant communities, and the privileged forms of engagement used by migration-inspired art pieces.

Moving Stories is a transdisciplinary project led by faculty from Visual Arts, Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, Sociology, and Design that reflects on how narratives work to bridge divides between migrants and the communities in which they settle. It is funded by a programmatic grant from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.