Telling Women’s Stories through Painting and Filmmaking in Mithila, Bihar, India

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

South Asia Center

present

Coralynn Davis
Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Anthropology
Bucknell University

This presentation describes the unique role that Mithila Art has played in the making of a film about changing women’s lives in Mithila. Davis explores how Mithila Art has helped illuminate various aspects of the relationship between gendered Maithil narratives and social roles in conjunction with a participatory action research project, begun in late 2016, in and around the town of Madhubani in Bihar, India. 

Part of the Ray Smith Symposium—in conjunction with Syracuse Symposium. 

For more information, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson, elbridge@syr.edu.