Film Screening:

Zika 

(International Women's Health Coalition & Debora Diniz, 2016, 30 min, Brazil, in Portuguese w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Panel and Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Debora Diniz!

They came from remote areas of Paraíba, a state in northeastern Brazil. They are everyday women and doctors. Pregnancy is a time of waiting and discovery. Together, they are moving science forward and learning how to survive the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil.

About the filmmaker:

Debora Diniz is co-founder of Anis: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, one of the key feminist groups dedicated to bioethics in Latin America. An anthropologist by training, she is now a professor of the Law Faculty at the University of Brasília, in Brazil. As a documentarian, her films received more than 50 prizes. She has strong advocacy experience working with the Brazilian Supreme Court on cases on involving abortion, marriage equality, secular state, and stem cell research. Her research interests include reproductive and sexual rights, human rights, penal systems, and research ethics.

Panel Speakers:

- Kearsley Stewart, Duke Global Health Institute, Chair

- Debora Diniz, University of Brasilia (Anthropology and Law), Anis: Institute for Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, International Women's Health Coalition, and filmmaker

- Jonathan Katz, Freelance journalist, author of The Big Truck That Went By, and Director, FHI Media and Journalism Initiative

- Kia Caldwell, UNC-Chapel Hill, African, African-American and Diaspora Studies

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Duke Global Health Institute (GHI), the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Health Humanities Lab at FHI, and the Program in the Arts of Moving Image (AMI).