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The Immortal Life Across Cultures: A Documentary Series Exploring Women's Agency and Civil Rights around the World - 'Pink Saris'
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Location: 205 Gorgas Library
Cost: Free
Categories: Campus Life, Honors College
The Immortal Life Across Cultures: A Documentary Series Exploring Women's Agency and Civil Rights around the World
Part of the Faculty in Residence Honors Book Club Series on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloots
Explore global issues of gender, agency, civil rights and representation in this three-week series designed to inform our conversation about marginalized women's stories.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7
7pm, 205 Gorgas Library
Working Women of the World (France/US, Dir. Marie France Collard, 2002, 53 mins.)
This documentary engages with the stories of women in Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, Belgium and France who are responsible for the labor that fuels the circulation of global capital and free trade, but who are all too often unseen and exploited.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14
7pm, 205 Gorgas Library
In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul (China/US, Dir. Hu Jie, 2004, 115 mins.)
During China's chaotic Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Lin Zhao spoke up for civil rights, and was imprisoned and eventually died for them. Director Hu Jie recovers her story, and in doing so brings to light forgotten stories from this tumultuous period and the difficulties in accessing them.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26
7pm, 205 Gorgas Library
Pink Saris (UK/India, Dir. Kim Longinotto, 2010, 96 mins.)
After being married off as a child bride, Sampat Pal has struggled for agency and respect in her family, and has extended her call for women's rights to her broader community through creating the Pink Gang. This film follows Sampat in her role as a community mediator of everyday challenges faced by women in contemporary India.
Sponsored by Honors College, Housing and Residential Communities, the Faculty in Residence Program, University Libraries, the Asian Studies Program, Department of History, Department of American Studies, the African American Studies Program
For more details, contact Dr. Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa aholmes12@as.ua.edu
Contact Info: Dr. Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, (205) 348-1805,Website,
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