{"id":852,"date":"2020-10-21T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=852"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:07:22","slug":"film-screening-panel-discussion-lynch-nation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2020\/10\/21\/film-screening-panel-discussion-lynch-nation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening + Panel Discussion: Lynch Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/UKAFFLynchNation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-853\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-21-at-17.32.22-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-21-at-17.32.22-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-21-at-17.32.22-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-10-21-at-17.32.22.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this South Asia Forum public event in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/tonguesonfire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Asian Film Festival<\/a>. The screening and panel discussion are free but be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/UKAFFLynchNation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register to attend via Zoom.<\/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; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film will be available to watch for 36 hours starting from 13:00 on 29 October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At 18:00 on Friday, 30 October, there will be an online Panel Discussion hosted by Ashvin Devasundaram (QMUL) and Akshi Singh (QMUL).\u00a0Panel Participants include: Furqan Faridi (Director); Amrit Wilson (Author and Activist); Rohit Dasgupta (University of Loughborough and Labour Councillor, Newham); and Annapurna Waughray (Manchester Metropolitan University, Co-Investigator, Equality and Human Rights Commission \u2018Caste in Britain\u2019 Project).<\/p>\n<p>Poster image: Kurshidin in Ghatmika Village, Rajasthan, 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 in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/tonguesonfire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Asian Film Festival<\/a>. The screening and panel discussion are free but be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/UKAFFLynchNation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register to attend via Zoom.<\/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","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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}