Film Screening + Panel Discussion: Lynch Nation – POSTPONED

Friday 27th March, 2020

5:30 pm, ArtsOne LT

 

Please join us for this South Asia Forum public event,  in collaboration with the UK Asian Film Festival. Attendance is free but register to attend via Eventbrite. 

Lynch Nation: A relentless journey across India, listening to heart-wrenching stories of mob lynching that have torn apart families and shaken the entire nation. The film documents seven incidents of mob lynching by traveling through the personal spaces of the victims and recording the testimonies of their families and survivors.

India, 2018 | 43 mins, Hindi with English subtitles. Directed by Ashfaque EJ, Shaheen Ahmed, Furqan Faridi, Vishu Sejwal.

This screening and discussion follows the SAF workshop on ‘Dividing Lines: Majoritarianism in South Asia’, 14:00-16:30 the same day. The schedule is as follows: 17:30-18:15 Film Screening; 18:15-19:30 Panel Discussion; 19:30-20:15 Reception.

Panel Participants include: Furqan Faridi (Director); Amrit Wilson (Author and Activist); Rohit Dasgupta (University of Loughborough and Labour Councillor, Newham); Akshi Singh (QMUL); and Annapurna Waughray (Manchester Metropolitan University, Co-Investigator, Equality and Human Rights Commission ‘Caste in Britain’ Project). Chaired by Ashvin Devasundaram (QMUL).

This event is supported by the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, QMUL.

Poster image: Jebuna in Jaisinghpura, from Lynch Nation.