{"id":15709,"date":"2015-02-09T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=15709"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:21","slug":"juristalk-global-justice-and-the-cinematic-slum-ethics-and-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/event\/juristalk-global-justice-and-the-cinematic-slum-ethics-and-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"March 25 |  JurisTalk &#8211; Global Justice and the Cinematic Slum: Ethics and Aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>In the face of mounting evidence of intensifying inequalities in most parts of the world, it is difficult to debate the urgency of global justice as an ethical demand.&nbsp; At the same time, the persistence of extreme poverty in many parts of the globe presents a challenge to the claim that the world will make good on this promise.&nbsp; This paper seeks to contribute to a critical literature on global justice through considering it in terms of an aesthetic rather than an ethic. &nbsp;Prof. Buchanan will do so through a close examination of cinematic depictions of poverty such as those found in the films <em>City of God<\/em> and <em>Slumdog Millionaire.<\/em>&nbsp; What is the relation between the aesthetic and the ethical in these portrayals?&nbsp; What aesthetic pleasures and affective engagements do they incite?&nbsp; How might they speak both to the promise and the failure of global justice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"about-the-speaker\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Speaker:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prof. Ruth Buchanan<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary legal scholar whose work has spanned a wide range of debates, methods and concerns in both law and humanities and socio-legal studies. Her scholarship has frequently engaged with issues of globalization, legal pluralism, resistance and affect. She is a co-editor of two recent books: <em>Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice (2014) <\/em>and <em>Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations (2012) <\/em>and has authored numerous articles and book chapters. &nbsp;Her doctorate is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she taught at UNB and UBC before taking up her current position at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2006.&nbsp; Her current project is a study of the affective and emotional engagements that frame the project of law and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-15709","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2015-03-25T15:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2015-03-25T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"D492","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"null","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Prof. Stacy Douglas","cu_event_email":"stacy.douglas@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15954,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15709\/revisions\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=15709"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=15709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}