by Lisa Rathje | Sep 3, 2024
The sheepherder watched his flock by day, traveling many miles while the sheep grazed on the range. As his flock pastured, he sat on a rock or on his coat; he whittled some object or composed songs of poetry until it was time to move the flock to water or better...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 2, 2024
Migrations are processes that disrupt, reshape, and reconceptualize places and cultures through the movement of people. Who have been migrants and what are their stories as they journey from the regions they leave and into the regions they travel to and through? What...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 1, 2024
How might the absence of appropriate resources be a barrier to migration? How do migrants enact futurism in difficult situations, and with what consequences? Often, migrants relocate because of acute disruption: war, disaster, or persecution. Slower forms of...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 31, 2024
Migration and its disruptions define our experiences of home—and probably yours, too. It shapes a great deal of our personal and professional attentions. We were both born in D.C., extensions of the circuitous migrations of our respective families. We grew up...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 31, 2024
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed 床前明月光 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng Could there have been a frost already 疑是地上霜 yí shì dì shàng shuāng Lifting my head to look / I found that it was moonlight ...
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