[Grovenet] Pacific University's CGE Presents India's Culture, Image, Voice: Bridging Cultural Boundaries Through a Lens

[Cecelia Warner]

India's Culture, Image, Voice: Bridging Cultural Boundaries Through a  
Lens

Please join Jill Reese for a discussion of her experience teaching  
Indian students the craft of documentary production while learning  
from them about their lives and culture. Jill will share photographs  
from her travels and excerpts from the student documentaries.

Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Place: Taylor Auditorium, Marsh Hall. (Go to www.pacificu.edu for  
directions)

Sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity

In October of 2006, Pacific alum Jill Reese traveled to India under  
the auspices of the Center for Gender Equity to teach documentary  
video production courses at Lady Doak College in Madurai, South  
India. The courses were the first of their kind to be offered at the  
women's college. Her students worked in small groups to create  
documentaries representing social issues the young women face in  
India's rapidly developing economy and effort to modernize. The  
documentaries focus on such topics as the predominance of girls in  
orphanages; the elderly who have no family to support them; a village  
candy maker's struggle to preserve his age-old craft; and the  
hazardous traffic conditions resulting from more vehicles on roads  
created for traditional means of transportation; as well as the  
contentious debate over young women's clothing and whether or not  
women are the bearers of culture.