{"id":818,"date":"2020-02-29T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=818"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:37:43","slug":"film-screening-panel-discussion-lynch-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2020\/02\/29\/film-screening-panel-discussion-lynch-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening + Panel Discussion: Lynch Nation &#8211; POSTPONED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-820\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch-1086x1536.png 1086w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/20200327_SAF_DL2_Lynch.png 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this South Asia Forum public event,\u00a0 in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/tonguesonfire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Asian Film Festival<\/a>. Attendance is free but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/uk-asian-film-festival-2020-lynch-nation-screening-with-panel-discussion-tickets-96962598743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register to attend via Eventbrite.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>India, 2018 | 43 mins, Hindi with English subtitles. Directed by Ashfaque EJ, Shaheen Ahmed, Furqan Faridi, Vishu Sejwal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lynch Nation - Official trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/354218321?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This screening and discussion follows the SAF workshop on \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2020\/02\/29\/workshop-dividing-lines-majoritarianism-in-south-asia\/\">Dividing Lines: Majoritarianism in South Asia<\/a>\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018Caste in Britain\u2019 Project). Chaired by Ashvin Devasundaram (QMUL).<\/p>\n<p>This event is supported by the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, QMUL.<\/p>\n<p>Poster image: Jebuna in Jaisinghpura, from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lynchnation\">Lynch Nation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for this South Asia Forum public event,\u00a0 in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/tonguesonfire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Asian Film Festival<\/a>. Attendance is free but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/uk-asian-film-festival-2020-lynch-nation-screening-with-panel-discussion-tickets-96962598743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register to attend via Eventbrite.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018Caste in Britain\u2019 Project). Chaired by Ashvin Devasundaram (QMUL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}