DHARAVI - one of the largest slums in the
world
Date
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Time
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Location
Bent Hall, Room 101A
K.P. Jayasankar is a Professor and Chair for the Centre for
Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai, India where his documentary collaborator, Anjali Monteiro,
is also a Professor.
Currently a Fulbright Fellow who is a visiting lecturer at the
University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Monteiro has a master’s
degree in economics and a Ph.D. in sociology. Dr. Jayasankar has a
master’s degree in German language and a Ph.D. in humanities and
social sciences.
Their films have been screened extensively at festivals all over
the world and have won 13 national and international awards.
Program is organized by the Division of Mass Communications,
Journalism, Television and Film, College of Professional Studies,
and the Rosalie Rendu Roundtable, a Local Society Initiative of The
Metanexus Institute.