Friday, May 02, 2008
MIT LECTURES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION - May 5, 2008
Zones of Emergency | Monday Nights@VAP | May 5, 2008 6-9p | MIT Visual Arts Program | Stata Center 32-155
* Special Location and New Start Time
* May 5, 2008 6-9p
* Location: Stata Center 32-155
The Human Condition | Amar Kanwar + Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Amar Kanwar, 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 Lightning Testimonies, which emerges from the search for language to understand the narratives of sexual violence in areas of conflict. Balakrishnan Rajagopal 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 Rajagopal 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 taught by Professor Amber Frid-Jimenez and 4.370/4.371: Research as Artistic Practice: Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The 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.
MIT Visual Arts Program
James Pollack
Assistant to the Director
vap@mit.edu
Direct line: (617) 253-5229
Fax: (617) 253-3977
265 Mass. Ave., Bldg. N51-328
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
further information and news
http://web.mit.edu/vap/
* Special Location and New Start Time
* May 5, 2008 6-9p
* Location: Stata Center 32-155
The Human Condition | Amar Kanwar + Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Amar Kanwar, 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 Lightning Testimonies, which emerges from the search for language to understand the narratives of sexual violence in areas of conflict. Balakrishnan Rajagopal 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 Rajagopal 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 taught by Professor Amber Frid-Jimenez and 4.370/4.371: Research as Artistic Practice: Module 1: Zones of Emergency: The 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.
MIT Visual Arts Program
James Pollack
Assistant to the Director
vap@mit.edu
Direct line: (617) 253-5229
Fax: (617) 253-3977
265 Mass. Ave., Bldg. N51-328
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
further information and news
http://web.mit.edu/vap/
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