Guests: Roy Grundmann, Ph.D; Julia Cumes 

Moderator: Charlotte Howell, Ph.D.

In this episode of ‘The COMversation’, host Charlotte Howell is joined by two fellows from Boston University’s Center for Media Innovation and Social Impact (MISI) for a discussion on migration, media, and memory. Film scholar Roy Grundmann and visual artist Julia Cumes discuss how images influence our understanding of migration across time. Together, they highlight how photographs, film, and visual storytelling can resist flattened narratives, express complexity, and open space for dignity, memory, and hope in stories of migration. 

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Roy Grundmann, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Film & Television Studies (Boston University) Profile: https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/roy-grundmann/

Julia Cumes – Visual Artist; Cape Cod’s 2024 Artist of the Year 

Project: Invisible Threads: Portraits and Stories of Our Global Neighbors 

Website: https://www.juliacumes.com/index