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Can’t wait! FREE virtual event with two major film directors. Hope to see you there. Aparna Sen and Deepa Mehta in conversation with Vishakha Desai, brought to you by the Fulbright India Interest Group (FIIG). Register at https://tinyurl.com/FIIGWomeninFilm.
The FIIG Film Festival ends tomorrow May 2, 2025. Register here to view any or all of these 9 fantastic films for FREE.
Then join us this Saturday 3rd May for any or all of the three panel discussions with the filmmakers happening throughout the day.
I’ll be moderating one of them (Resistance) along with my colleagues Dr. Harjant Gill (Community) and Dr. Abhijeet Paul (Self-Discovery).
Register here to join the panel discussions.
UPDATE 7/20/25: recordings of the panel discussions are now available on youtube. Enjoy.
Attention, people of Earth: the FIIG Film Festival launched yesterday. The nine outstanding films by award-winning Fulbright alums will be available for viewing online through May 2, 2025.
Access to view them is FREE but you must register to get the password at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NbITo8lL3h6S4uuN_86IY8shWjvT7UNUKkKom2LK30/viewform?edit_requested=true .
To join us on May 3 for panel discussions with the filmmakers, register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eN6KgrhDSpCH0j6vdaV3lg#/registration . I was one of the curators of the nine films and will be hosting one of the panel discussions along with my esteemed colleagues.
Hope to see you there!
Attention current or former Fulbrighters who have made a film about South Asia: we’ve launched a film festival just for you. Your Fulbright research/teaching award doesn’t have to have been in South Asia for you to submit your film. See full details on the FIIG Film Festival below. Deadline 1/15/25!
Wow. Thank you so much NYU Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Program for sharing the doubly good news in their article about The Jeff & Shuvam Show, which I’m happy to say seems to be really taking off, and separately celebrating my article in UK peer-reviewed journal Race & Class. I’m grateful that they mentioned my youtube channel (not really a podcast) collaborators Shuvam Dasgupta and my fellow Fulbright alum, film director Abhijit Chowdhury, whose idea this was, and his India-based media production company Concept Cube which launched the podcast, not me solely.
My grant to attend the Fulbright Association conference last October, as mentioned in the article, was provided by our terrific adjunct faculty union ACT-UAW Local 7902.