Events

In southern Bangladesh, Lokhi and her family prepare to escape an extreme climate and flee to Dhaka – the fastest growing city in the world. February 23 | H-110 (Hall Building Auditorium), 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest | 7:00 PM Humanity is heading towards a “climate apartheid”. The rich will pay to escape global warming, […]

January 19th – March 25th | Webster Library, 1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest  This exhibition showcases print material created in the context of different community organizing campaigns and grassroots collective struggles in Montréal. The works on public display include zines, posters and photographs. The exhibition will be running up until March 25, 2026, at the Webster […]

Women’s Transborder Cinema looks at previously submerged histories of women directors, film entrepreneurs, female stars and authors from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. Drawing on neglected archives and rare oral histories, Esha Niyogi De tells a comparative story of women’s creative authority and entrepreneurial labor in film industries of South Asia that share languages, arts, and […]

upcoming: Monday, Nov 17 We are co-presenting the Montréal premiere of Unwelcomed (2025), followed by a discussion with director Sebastián González Mendez & Amílcar Infante, alongside Cinema Politica and Solidarité sans frontières. As the world witnesses the rise of anti-immigrant and fascist rhetoric, Unwelcomed offers a cinematic portrayal of the social and political tensions that […]

Screening Series: In a Displaced World A film series highlighting cinematic engagements with forced displacement, border regimes, and the political economies of migration. The films move beyond humanitarian lenses to reframe the so-called migration “crisis.” EV 1.615 | November 14, 2025 | 3:30 PM   Screening 2 – Per Un Figlio (2016) Sunita, a middle-aged […]

Dr. Casey Mecija proposes a theory of “queer sound” that treats sonicity as a conceptual and affective resource for understanding the psychic and emotional lives of diasporic communities, with particular attention to the Filipinx diaspora. She demonstrates how the queer valences of sound invite us to attune to forms of Asian diasporic resistance and intimacy […]

  On Nov. 2nd, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, more than 500 Palestinian films will be screened around the world as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, initiated by Film Lab Palestine. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine, an act aimed at amplifying censored Palestinian voices and correcting a […]

This talk takes up the question: what role should aesthetic analysis play in the critical study of media today? It refracts this question through the issues raised by examining digital platforms in the Global South, exploring how the contradictions that shape the infrastructure and political economy of platform and streaming media raise old questions about […]

Art and Activism This interactive presentation and workshop, facilitated by long-time community organizer and artist Stefan Christoff, will highlight three examples of creative activist campaigns and community organizing efforts that speak to the intersections of art and activism. Raah Lab @ Concordia University (FB 630.17) |  October 2, 2025 | 5:30 PM   Montreal artist […]

Screening Series: In a Displaced World A film series highlighting cinematic engagements with forced displacement, border regimes, and the political economies of migration. The films move beyond humanitarian lenses to reframe the so-called migration “crisis.” EV 1.615 | September 26, 2025 | 6–9 PM   Screening 1 – Short Films by Mahdi Fleifel Xenos (Denmark/Greece/UK, […]

As part of our community partner Brique par Brique's annual Monsoon Festival, we were invited to facilitate a discussion for their Community Conversations series.

We co-presented Cinema Politica's Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025 showcase - No Pride in Genocide. Part of a global film event co-organized by Queer Cinema for Palestine and PACBI

The screening series 'Palestine Everywhere- Looking at Palestinian Migration through Concordia’s Film Collection' is born from a desire to activate the vast collection of film about Palestine present in the film collections house within Concordia University.

Come join us as we watch Colectivo Cine Liberación's film at the center of Latin America's revolutionary cinemas, The Hour of the Furnaces: Part 1 - Neocolonialism and Dominance (1968)

The screening series 'Palestine Everywhere- Looking at Palestinian Migration through Concordia’s Film Collection' is born from a desire to activate the vast collection of film about Palestine present in the film collections house within Concordia University.

We are excited to be hosting a roundtable session featuring scholars focusing on media and technology studies in a South Asian context.

These films are often used as teaching material in a variety of courses offered by the university, but they are seldom used in other contexts. This screening series aims at filling this gap by providing a larger audience for some of these films, in order to continue fostering discussions about Palestine at Concordia University.

This panel discussion will explore the intersection of migrant justice and the housing crisis, focusing on how systemic barriers disproportionately affect migrant communities and showcasing examples from around the world

Come celebrate the launch of new books by Ishita Tiwary, and Joshua Neves & Marc Steinberg, among other student achievements!

Some of Jain's acclaimed films include Lakshmi and Me (2007), Gulabi Gang (2012) and The Golden Thread (2022). Her recent film Farming The Revolution (2024) won the Best International Documentary award at Hot Docs.

The zine highlights the voices of frontline community organizers and also cultural workers interviewed during the first pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020.

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-Canadian photographer who documents Israel’s settler colonial practices in Palestine and the resilience and resistance tactics of residents

Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation.

Brian Larkin uses light as a way of opening up questions about the relation of aesthetics to racial capitalism.

Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history

Part two of the collaboration between the Raah Lab and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) housed in the University of Pennsylvania.

Three years since the Liberal Party's promise for a regularisation program

This event considered the emergent subfield of “migrant media studies” as an intersectional investigation into the politics of citizenship, ecology, and mediation.

Students from across universities in Montreal as well as across disciplines came together to present and discuss their recent works on a variety of topics relating to South and Southeast Asia.

A cultural event and walking tour of Chabanel district in Montreal

The Raah Lab hosted Mostafa Henaway on February 23, 2024 for a discussion of his newly published book Essential Work, Disposable Workers.

The Raah Lab hosted Feng-Mei Heberer and Juan Llamas-Rodriguez for a conversation about their recently published books.

The Raah Lab co-sponsored A Day of Screenings - Decolonizing Memory

The use of transient in the title gestured toward a movement in and out of frame, in a way invoking how transness grapples with a visible invisibility that is made and unmade, lived and unlived.

The 16th edition, titled "Generations of Nakba" takes place against the horrific backdrop of Israel’s continuous bombing of Palestinians in Gaza and its intensifying violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.

Mr. Kumar's reportage contrasts sharply with government-owned, censored print and blustering, high-decibel TV debates where public discourse has become a newsy entertainment.

Dr. Amanda Lotz, a leading scholar on television and streaming cultures, conducted a workshop on the theme of “global streaming” at Raah

This talk was co-sponsored by the GEM Lab, Raah (Media and Migration) Lab, Southern Asia Studies, Department of Religions and Cultures, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

Award-winning film director and series producer, Sarita Khurana, presented her work on the Emmy-nominated series, “Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond” on 28 September 2023 at the Raah Lab.

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Asian Institute

Part of Brique par Brique’s “public conversation” series, this program is the culmination of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded partnership between Brique par Brique and Concordia University’s Raah (Media and Migration) Lab.

In this informal discussion Dr. Punathambekar will offer MA and PhD students insight into the nuts and bolts of academic article publishing from his experience as editor of the storied and highly respected peer-reviewed journal Media, Culture and Society.

A campus/community event highlighting the ongoing struggles of Guinean asylum seekers in Montreal, who are also part of the #StatusForAll movement.

At this round table between artist Sanaz Sohrabi, Dr. Siobhan Angus, and Dr. Ishita Tiwary, the discussants addressed petromodernity’s relationship with photography and film as embodied technologies of coloniality during the operations of British Petroleum in Asia.

One of India's most eminent documentarians and activists, Anand Patwardhan's films have been milestones in the history of politically committed Indian cinema.

Raah is proud to sponsor award-winning interdisciplinary artist Amitesh Grover’s work for the IF Festival entitled ‘How I Got Here’.

On a freezing day in March, Raah joined forces with feminist and other local community organizations at the International Women's Day 2022 Rally “Women’s Struggles Beyond the Pandemic,” organized by Women of Diverse Origins.