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Global Distinguished Lecture: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy |
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April 16, 2013,
Volume 59, No. 29 |
Pakistani documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will deliver the annual Global Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m. in the Harrison Auditorium of the Penn Museum. Her film, Saving Face, which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary–Short Subject, will also be screened.
Saving Face tells the story of two Pakistani women and their fight for justice after surviving horrific and scarring acid attacks. Tickets are free and available online at http://globaldistinguishedlecture.eventbrite.com/
Presented by Penn’s Africa Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East Center and South Asia Center, the annual event aims to promote the discussion of issues of global prominence.
Previous Global Distinguished Lecturers included Shirin Ebadi, Kelly Grimshaw, Robert Kaplan and Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
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