Does Microfinance Work? A Conversation Between Danish Filmmaker Tom Heinemann and UO Anthropologist Lamia Karim

“The Micro Debt” poster

October 20, 2011
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: PLC (Prince Lucien Campbell Hall)
Room 180
1415 Kincaid St.
University of Oregon campus

 Jeremiah Lecture Series

UO Center for Asian and Pacific Studies hosts “Does Microfinance Work? A Conversation Between Danish Filmmaker Tom Heinemann and UO Anthropologist Lamia Karim.”

 Tom Heinemann has been working as an independent investigative journalist for more than 19 years. Two time awardee as “Outstanding Investigative Journalist” by the association on investigative journalism in Denmark (FUJ). Three times runner up for “Journalist of the Year” in Denmark (Cavling). In 2007 he won the Prix Italia in the current affairs selection. His films have been sold all over the world, and he has received numerous awards for his work on global issues. His documentary The Micro Debt is a critical investigation into the dark side of microcredit.

 Lamia Karim is the author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, March 2011) and the associate director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.