{"id":10927,"date":"2015-08-28T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:40","slug":"urban-indian-womanhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2015\/08\/28\/urban-indian-womanhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Indian Womanhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2015\/08\/Singh-film-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/08\/Singh-film-image-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Singh film image\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/08\/Singh-film-image-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2015\/08\/Singh-film-image-1024x924.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=center>Please join us for a film screening of the documentary<br \/>\n<em><strong>Urban Indian Womanhood: Confounding Traditions of Modernity<\/strong><\/em> followed by a panel discussion\/Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n<p align=center><font color=#B45F04><strong>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 @ 4:30PM<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons 4th floor<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Film screening (40 mins) followed by a panel discussion\/Q&#038;A (30 mins)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong> <strong>Shweta Singh<\/strong> (Filmmaker, Associate Professor, School of Social Work), <strong>Tracy Pintchman<\/strong> (Director of International Studies Program), <strong>John Pincince<\/strong> (Director of Asian Studies Program), <strong>Betsy Jones Hemenway<\/strong> (Director of Women\u2019s Studies and Gender Studies Program), and <strong>Ann Shanahan<\/strong> (Acting Graduate Program Director of Women\u2019s Studies and Gender Studies)<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the filmmaker, Shweta Singh, discuss her documentary on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wbez-worldview\/indias-new-prime-minister-modi-calls-for-focus-on-womens-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WBEZ Worldview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Screening and Panel Discussion<br \/>\nTuesday, September 8, 2015 @ 4:30PM<br \/>\nKlarchek Information Commons 4th floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17705,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/17705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}