Event Details:

Dr. Jurgen Schaflechner will introduce and screen his documentary, Thrust into Heaven, about the so-called "forced conversions" of Hindu women who marry Muslim men in Sindh, a province in Pakistan. Dr. Roger Long, professor of history at Eastern Michigan, Dr. Nathan Tabor, asst professor of history at Western Michigan, and Dr. Matthew A. Cook, professor of postcolonial and South Asian studies at NC Central, will respond to the film and facilitate audience questions and comments.

Jurgen Schaflechner studied South Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Heidelberg. He is an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg's South Asia Institute and is currently a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Dr. Schaflechner is the author of Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan (Oxford 2017) and a filmmaker with six documentaries to his credit.

Sponsored by English, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Muslim Studies, & Asian Studies