Join us for the third screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Veena Das will be introducing Devi (Goddess), a 1960 drama by Satyajit Ray about a zamindar who believes his daughter-in-law to be a goddess incarnate. The Film in […]
Join us for the fourth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Christopher Minkowski will be introducing Umrao Jaan, a 1981 period musical drama by Muzaffar Ali about the rise to fame of a nineteenth-century tawaif in British-occupied Lucknow. The Film in […]
Join us for the fifth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Michael Levien will be introducing Do Bigha Zamin, a 1953 film by Bimal Roy about a poor farmer who is forced to seek work in the city in order to […]
