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CWS screening a film "Velvet Revolution"

CWS screening a film "Velvet Revolution"

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CWS screening a film "Velvet Revolution"
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CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES, JNU

 

Invites you to a Film Screening

 

Velvet Revolution

 

About the Film:-  In this exciting collaborative film – Velvet Revolution - six women directors take their lens up-close to Women Making News. In a world riven with conflict and dictatorial regimes where journalists are constantly under threat of both, state and non - state actors, what drives these women journalists to do their jobs?

 

Nupur Basu brief profile :  Nupur Basu is an independent journalist, an award - winning documentary film maker and media educator from India. She is  currently the Managing Trustee of IAWRT (International Association of Women in Radio and Television) Chapter India (2018-2020).

For the last three and a half decades Nupur has worked in both print and television journalism and reported and filmed documentaries from different regions in the world.
Formerly a Senior Editor with India's leading channel- New Delhi Television – (NDTV) Nupur has also made several documentaries produced by the UK based Television Trust for Environment (TVE) which include the award winning Dry Days in Dobbagunta (about the rural women's struggle to ban liquor in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) Lost Generations (about the impact of globalisation on the poor in India), No Country for Young Girls ? (about India's shameful sex ratio distortion). These documentaries were telecast on BBC World. Another documentary she directed was the 57 minute Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj (about the impact of satellite television on South Asia which was filmed in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India), a bi-media project supported by University of Sussex and Ford Foundation. Nupur was the country director for the India segment on IAWRT's long documentary on climate change - Hands On.
Nupur is the executive producer and project director of Velvet Revolution produced by IAWRT in 2017.

Executive Producer and Director Nupur Basu will be there after the screening for Q and A. 

 

Date: 1st October 2019; Time: 3.00 PM

Venue: Auditorium, SAA

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.