Paromita Vohra
As part of our Activist-in-Residence Program, we invited award-winning filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra to campus to discuss her work as a documentarian, artist, digital activist, and the ways in which she makes media for social change.
Vohra's work has focused on urban life, popular culture, gender, politics, and art. She has directed numerous films including the documentary Partners in Crime (2011) and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad: A Thrilling Tale (2007), and written films including the internationally released feature Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters (2003) and the documentary A Few Things I Know About Her (2002). Vohra is also a frequent newspaper columnist, blog writer, and her fiction and non-fiction writings have been included in numerous anthologies. Vohra has also developed a website , a multi-media project about love, sex, and desire in India, with innovative uses of video, imagery, and audio.
Vohra joined us on Monday, November 13th for an open forum with the graduate students enrolled in our certificate program. Using a multimedia presentation to show examples of her work, Vohra hosted a lively discussion in the Cottage Library. Vohra offered a second presentation on Tuesday, November 14th for our undergraduate students, a lunchtime workshop on creating feminist digital spaces. She then gave a public talk that afternoon to a packed lecture hall, titled "Can Advocacy Risk Being Art? A feminist perspective on making media for social change."
