[Sci-tech-public] Zones of Emergency--Amar Kanwar + Balakrishnan Rajagopal

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>*Zones of Emergency **|* *Monday Nights at VAP **|*  *May 5, 2008 6-9p **|* *MIT
>Visual Arts Program *|* *Stata Center 32-155*
>
>
>***The Human Condition** | Amar Kanwar + Balakrishnan Rajagopal*
>
>
>*Amar Kanwa*r, independent filmmaker, and *Balakrishnan Rajagopal*, 
>Professor of
>Law and Development and Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at
>MIT will speak on the topic of /The Human Condition/. Amar Kanwar* * will
>present /The Little Museum/ with reflections on the image that lies between
>sorrow and resistance. This exploration will include extracts from different
>film projects such as /Shrines/ 1991-2007, which emerges from labor and
>indigenous people's resistance movements, /The Torn First Pages,/ 
>which emerges
>from the Burmese democracy movement and /The Lightening Testimonies/, which
>emerges from the search for language to understand the narratives of sexual
>violence in areas of conflict. *Balakrishnan Rajagopa*l will talk about
>'normalizing emergency' in development and human rights terms, drawing on
>Agamben, but with a specific focus on the condition of Dalits in India.
>
>
>*Amar Kanwar* is the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary
>Art from Norway, an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College 
>of Art, USA,
>the MacArthur Fellowship in India, the Golden Gate Award (San Francisco
>International Film Festival); Golden Conch (Mumbai International Film
>Festival); The First Prize (Torino International Film Festival,Italy); Jury?s
>Award (Film South Asia,Nepal), Grand Prix at EnviroFilm, Slovak 
>Republic and the
>Golden Tree at the 1st National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival
>Vatavaran, Delhi. A retrospective of his films was held at the
>Dhaka International Short Film Festival in 2005. His films have been 
>screened in
>small rural film festivals as well as international film festivals and museums
>like the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Museum in Oslo,
>Norway. He participated in Documenta 11 (2002) and Documenta 12 
>(2007), Kassel,
>Germany.
>
>*Balakrishnan Rajagopa*l is Associate Professor of Law and Development and
>Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT. A previous member
>of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of
>International Law, he is currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights
>Watch, the International Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
>Center for Human Rights and the International Rights Advocates. He served for
>many years with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in
>Cambodia, and has consulted with UN agencies, international organizations and
>leading NGOs on human rights and international legal issues. He is the author
>of /International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and 
>Third World
>Resistance/ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; Foundation Press,
>South Asia, 2005; Colombia, Spanish, 2005; 2nd edition forthcoming in
>2008), and /Reshaping Justice: International Law and the Third World /
>Routledge, co-editor, 2008). He is currently completing a book manuscript on
>legalization of socio-economic rights in the Global South. He has also
>published widely in law and other academic journals and in daily media
>including the /Boston Globe, the Hindu, Washington Post/ and the /Nation/.
>
>/This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice./
>*
>*
>*ZOE Blog:  http://www.zonesofemergency.net/*
>
>*Location*
>The Stata Center, Building 32,
>room 155, ground floor
>32 Vassar Street
>Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
>
>*Directions*
>The MIT Stata Center by architect Frank Gehry is on Vassar Street near the
>intersection with Main Street. *By Public Transportation*
>Take the Red Line to the Kendall/MIT Station. When you exit the T, walk
>Northwest, up Main Street (you will pass the MIT Coop and Legal Seafoods). The
>second intersection is Vassar St. and the Stata Center is on your left.
>
>This event is presented in conjunction with the following two courses:
>4.381/4.366: Intro to Online Participatory Media: Zones of Emergency -
>Networks, Tactics, Breakdown 
><http://zonesofemergency.net/participation> taught
>by Professor *Amber Frid-Jimenez* and 4.370/4.371: Research as Artistic
>Practice: Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The FEMA Trailer Project
><http://www.zonesofemergency.net/fema-trailer-project/> taught by
>professors *Ute Meta Bauer* & *Jae Rhim Lee*.
>
>*Thanks*
>/Special thanks to Diane Davis, Professor of Political Sociology and Associate
>Dean of MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)/ /and Larry Vale,
>Head of DUSP. This lecture series has been made possible with a special grant
>by the Office of the Dean, School of Architecture and Planning./
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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