Chiara Towne is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. She has been documenting migration in the Mediterranean since 2017, most recently with her short Channel 16. Like the marine radio frequency from which it takes its name, Channel 16 stitches together lives… Continue Reading
Lorenzo Pezzani is an architect and researcher, whose work explores the spatial politics, visual cultures and political ecologies of migration and borders. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, where he… Continue Reading
Miguel Duarte is a sea rescuer in the Central Mediterranean. He has been active in the migrants’ rights movement since 2016. In 2018 he was indicted for aiding and abetting illegal immigration in Italy, a crime that could lead to… Continue Reading
Chloe Howe Haralambous is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University specializing in migration and revolution in the 21st century. Her dissertation, The Rescue Plot: Politics, Policing and Subterfuge in the Mediterranean Migrant Corridor, examines fictional and forensic narratives of the sea passage… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary… Continue Reading