Schedule for Jewish Women and Global Perspective: A Documentary Film Festival
October 11-13, 2008

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
     
Welcome  
6:00pm
   
Film Flying Confessions of a Free Woman (Part I)
6:15pm
   
Discussion Jennifer Fox, Filmmaker, Producer/Director Zohe Film Productions
Ruth N. Halls Lecture
8:15pm
   
Break  
8:30pm
   
Film: Flying Confessions of a Free Woman
(Part II)
8:45pm
   
Discussion Follow up Q&A with filmmaker Jennifer Fox
10:45pm
   
   
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
   
Welcome  
10:00am
   
Film: In Search of Bene Israel
10:15am
   
Panel Response and Discussion

Panelists:
Professor Rebecca Manring,Associate Professor, India Studies and Religious Studies, Indiana University
Gabrielle Berlinger, Folklore PhD student, Indiana University 

11:00am

   
Break  
11:30pm
   
Film: The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America
1:00pm
   
Panel Response and Discussion Panelists:
Professor Judah M. Cohen, Lou & Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture, Indiana University
Noa Wahrman, Jewish Studies Librarian and Collection Manager, Indiana University

 2:15pm

   
   
Sunday, October 12
Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union
   
Welcome  
10:00am
   
Film: Be Fruitful and Multiply
10:15am
   
Discussion and Panel Panelists:
Molly Mendota, Birth Doula and Childbirth Educator
Laura Harrison,Gender Studies PhD Student, Indiana University

11:00am

   
Break  
11:30am
   
Film: Sentenced to Marriage

12:30pm

   
Discussion and Panel Panelists:
Andy Mallor, Senior Partner, Mallor, Clendening, Grodner, & Bohrer LLP
Professor Shaul Magid,Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religious Studies 

1:30pm
   
   
Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
   
Film: A Good Uplift
3:30pm
   
Presentation and Discussion Body Image and Judaism

Faye Lederman, Producer/Director, Squeeze the Stone Productions
Ruth N. Halls Lecture
3:45pm
   
Film: Hineini
4:15pm
   
Discussion Panelists:
Rabbi Sue Laikin Shifron, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center
Sarah Wilensky and Daniel Reinglass, Keshet Co-Chairs

5:15pm

   
Film: Making Trouble
5:45pm
   
Discussion  and Panelists Panelists:
Professor Brenda Weber, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and adjunct Assistant Professor in English, Cultural Studies, and American Studies
Jonathan P. Rossing, PhD student, Communication and Culture - Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University
7:15pm
   
   
Monday, October 13, 2008
Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
   
Welcome  
9:00am
   
Film: Watermarks
9:15am
   
Discussion and Panel Panelists:
Audrey Heller, Co-Artistic Director, Jewish Theatre of Bloomington
Lea Jaffee, Co-Chair, The Gathering 
10:30am
   
Break  

11:00am

   
Film: Praying With Lior
11:15am
   
Discussion and Panel Panelists:
Mira Wasserman,Rabbi, Congregation Beth Shalom, Bloomington
Jinny Marsh,Cantorial Soloist and Klezmer Band Leader 

12:45pm

   

 

 



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