Please join us for a film screening of the documentary
Urban Indian Womanhood: Confounding Traditions of Modernity followed by a panel discussion/Q&A.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 @ 4:30PM
Klarchek Information Commons 4th floor
Film screening (40 mins) followed by a panel discussion/Q&A (30 mins)
Synopsis: This documentary is a snapshot of the lives of working women from the town of Lucknow in the Northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Their stories are interlinked and feature women’s relationships to their inside and their outside world. The documentary brings forth the perspective of activists, academics, and others working for the empowerment of women. The complex pathway of change across class, caste, and religion as experienced by women in a modernizing society is explored as an empowering process.
Panelists: Shweta Singh (Filmmaker, Associate Professor, School of Social Work), Tracy Pintchman (Director of International Studies Program), John Pincince (Director of Asian Studies Program), Betsy Jones Hemenway (Director of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Program), and Ann Shanahan (Acting Graduate Program Director of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies)
Listen to the filmmaker, Shweta Singh, discuss her documentary on WBEZ Worldview.
