Join us on March 25, 2015 for a JurisTalk seminar with Prof. Ruth Buchanan.
Her talk, “Global Justice and the Cinematic Slum: Ethics and Aesthetics” seeks to contribute to a critical literature on global justice through considering it in terms of an aesthetic rather than an ethic. Prof. Buchanan will do so through a close examination of cinematic depictions of poverty such as those found in the films City of God and Slumdog Millionaire. What is the relation between the aesthetic and the ethical in these portrayals? What aesthetic pleasures and affective engagements do they incite? How might they speak both to the promise and the failure of global justice?
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