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April 12, 2023 | 4.30 - 6.30 PM | Louis A. Simpson 144 The first Tanzanian film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Tanzania's second entry ever, for the Academy Awards Best International Feature category. Awarded the Tanit d'Or, the top prize at Tunisia's Carthage Film Festival, November 2022. Denge, a young freedom fighter, meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman, in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution ensue in this coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar." The film screening will be followed by a conversation with the Indian-origin Tanzanian filmmaker Amil Shivji. Convened by: Veda Vaidyanathan, Fung Global Fellow, PIIRS Food Provided (Movie snacks and refreshments)
Veda Vaidyanathan is part of the tenth cohort of Fung Global Fellows at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies for the 2022-23 academic year and specializes in Asia-Africa interactions. As a visiting associate fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in New Delhi and an associate at the Harvard University Asia Center, she brings a comparative perspective to her work, examining Chinese and Indian engagements in Africa. During her Ph.D. at the University of Mumbai, she was a doctoral fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and a visiting fellow at Peking University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI). Her analysis and op-eds have been published in The Washington Post, African Arguments, The Hindu, South African Journal of International Affairs and findings presented in various global conferences and podcasts. The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on
India is trying to strengthen its longstanding ties to countries on the continent as New Delhi attempts to catch up with China, which has emerged as Africa's largest trading partner.