Name: Defying Limits: Women's Voices in Challenging Professions
Start: 2025-03-18T19:00:00Z
End: 2025-03-18T20:30:00Z
Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS University of London

Defying Limits: Women's Voices in Challenging Professions

SOAS Library

Join the SOAS Library to celebrate Women's History Month welcoming the award-winning filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper!

Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS University of London

Join award-winning filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper for a 90-minute Women's History Month event featuring: <ul><li>The Jill of the Trade (22 minutes), a Best Documentary winner showcasing five women in male-dominated professions. Trailer: <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcLGqtOdI8aY&amp;data=05%7C02%7Chi7%40mysoas.onmicrosoft.com%7C0465dff118814ccceb1508dd46edc0f4%7C674dd0a1ae6242c7a39f69ee199537a8%7C0%7C0%7C638744709272247175%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7HmIPDU9e3dwfg%2FIJaauDOM87l3BPgIkio5ex05dUhY%3D&amp;reserved=0" title="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcLGqtOdI8aY&amp;data=05%7C02%7Chi7%40mysoas.onmicrosoft.com%7C0465dff118814ccceb1508dd46edc0f4%7C674dd0a1ae6242c7a39f69ee199537a8%7C0%7C0%7C638744709272247175%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7HmIPDU9e3dwfg%2FIJaauDOM87l3BPgIkio5ex05dUhY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGqtOdI8aY</a></li><li>Guest speaker from a woman in a male-majority field</li><li>Q&amp;A with filmmaker and guest speaker</li></ul> Bio of Charysse Tia HarperBeing a dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Charysse Tia Harper has focused projects on her Trinidad culture: award-winning film, The Other Side of Carnival; T&amp;T 50 in Fifteen and Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan and Part 2: Pan Worldwide; and on her American identity: award-winning documentary, 12 Months, First Weekend February and Insurance: Putting Newark on the Map. She created Xplore the World in 2010 to further this mission.Amidst the Covid-19 lockdown, Charysse made The Jill of the Trade (2021), a documentary short that highlights women from around the world who work in male-dominated industries. She is in pre-production for Las Matadoras, a feature-length documentary about three female bullfighters. Charysse resides in London.

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