Jewish Women in Global Perspective: a Film Festival.
Jewish Women in Global Perspective was founded in 2007 by graduate students Devorah Shubowitz and Jessica Alpert, of the IU Anthropology and History departments respectively, to foster a pluralistic conversation about Jewish women's identity and agency among academics, activists, and artists in the Jewish community and beyond. The organization is home to a student-initiated, two-day film festival slated for October 11-13, 2008, which will assemble a cadre of filmmakers and commentators from around the country and the Indiana University community. The films will focus on Jewish women from around the world and the ways in which they negotiate, struggle with, assume, and manage authority in all aspects of life, from health, reproduction, and beautifying their bodies, to work, money, and relationships. As a forum for scholarly and cultural exchange, the film festival includes eight to ten documentaries, followed by carefully assembled discussion panels. Attracting students, faculty, and film aficionados from Southern Indiana and beyond, the festival has already received seed money and scholarly support from the Indiana University Borns Jewish Studies program, as well as the Center for the Study of Global Change, the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI), and the Sociology and History departments.
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