About The Lab

Raah is a media research lab based in the Film and Moving Image Studies Department at Concordia. It aims to examine the intersection of migratory processes and media practices. Taking our cue from the evocations offered by the Persian word raah – which can mean ways or passage, and its underlying resonances of fellow-traveler, or companion, Raah aims to investigate the many methodological pathways open to researchers in migration and media studies.

Raah's project is a community-driven model, which hopes to bring together scholars, activists and community partners in a single space, becoming the first institutional hub in Canada for the study of media and migration. Raah aims to host both theoretical and practice-based research, as well as community-facing projects, in order to investigate the questions of immigration, hospitality, marginalization and their mediatized forms.

The development of the Raah Lab website infrastructure was made possible through support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

• Artists in Conversation with Chantal Partamian

  Chantal Partamian joins us on November 4 at 6:00 PM, at the Raah Lab,  for a presentation and discussion. In her practice, Partamian approaches the missing image and the missing subject as forms of haunting, tracing what remains absent, erased, or displaced within archives and collective memory. Working from a diasporic and minoritarian position, she […]

  2026-10-27
• Artists in Conversation with Sharlene Bamboat

  Sharlene Bamboat joins us for a presentation and discussion of her work on September 23 at 6:00 PM, at the Raah Lab. Working across film and installation, Bamboat’s practice engages questions of history, memory, translation, and sound through experimental and collaborative forms. September 23 | 6 PM | Raah Lab (1250 Rue Guy, FB 630.17) […]

  2026-10-27
• Filming the Border: Memory, Migration, and Self-Representation at the US-Mexico Border

  This event will feature a research talk and screening by professor-researcher Axel Nuñez on his work exploring Haitian migration and the experiences of migrants at the US-Mexico border where he will discuss his research creation practice which is invested in regional identities, migration, and border narratives. October 22 | 5:45 PM | Raah Lab (1250 […]

  2026-10-20
• Chabanel on Strike: Poster Series Launch

  The “Chabanel on Strike” poster series documents three moments when workers in the Chabanel area pushed back against their employers. Each designed by a different Montreal artist, the posters highlight the 1983 Garment Workers’ Strike (Lisa Czech), the 2008 Justice for Lamour Workers campaign (Chris Robertson), and the 2024 Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ Strike […]

  2026-10-02