Between Two Worlds: An Evening with Mira Nair: Film Screening and Conversation

This event is full. We are no longer accepting RSVPs . Only registered guests are guaranteed a seat. Unclaimed seats will be released to stand-by line at 7:45 pm. 

5:00 pm: Film Screening, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012, 130 minutes)  -- Doors close at 5:15 pm. 

7:10 pm: Intermission 

7:30 pm: A Conversation with Mira Nair, Professor Robert Crews (Stanford, Department of History), and Professor Aishwary Kumar (Stanford, Department of History) -- Unclaimed seats will be released at 7:45 pm.

Mira Nair is a prolific filmmaker who fluidly moves between Hollywood and independent cinema. After several years of making documentary films, she made Salaam Bombay! (1988), the first Indian film to win the coveted Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and more than 25 international awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Nair then directed Mississippi Masala (1991), The Perez Family (1995), and My Own Country (1998). Her Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golen Lion, Venice’s top prize in cinema. Her most recent films include Amelia (2009), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), and Words With Gods (2014). 

Organized by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies in collaboration with Stanford Global Studies, Center for South Asia, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Film and Media Studies Program, and the Stanford Initiative for Religious and Ethnic Understanding and Coexistence supported by the President’s Fund, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Department of Religious Studies, and the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.

Location

Cubberley Auditorium is located in the Stanford Graduate School of Education (485 Lausen Mall). The building is located off the Main Quad and next to the Clock Tower at the intersection of Lasuen and Escondido Mall. 

Parking

Closest Parking is available at the following locations: 

1. Behind the Tresidder Memorial Union (Lomita Dr & Laguna Dr) 

2. Behind Memorial Auditorium (Galvez St & Memorial Way)

3. In front of Burnham Pavillion (Serra St & Galvez St) 

4. Knight Management Center Garage (Campus Dr East & Serra St) 

5. In front of the Cantor Arts Center (Lomita Dr & Museum Way) 

6. Behind the Visitor Center (Galvez St & Campus Dr East)

7. Behind the Littlefield Center (Lausen St & Roth Wy)
 

Unless otherwise noted, parking in A, C, and P lots is free after 4:00pm. Visit this map for more details.