*Zones of Emergency **|* *Monday [EMAIL PROTECTED] **|* *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./
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*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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