Friday Night — 04.10.09 – Lawrence Liang — Cinematic Courtrooms in Indian Films
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Contents:
1. About this Friday 04.10.09
2. About dinner
3. About Lawrence Liang
4. About Alternative Law Forum
5. Useful links
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1. About this Friday Night
What: Talk / Discussion / Dinner
When: Friday 04.10.09
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: 6:30 pm
Who: Free and open to all
We are very happy to have Lawrence Liang, in town from Bangalore, for a dinner and informal conversation with us at 16beaver.
For the evening, Lawrence will be talking about ‘Juridical Affect: Cinematic Courtrooms in Indian Film’. According to Lawrence, the relationship between law and cinema has to be one of the most well guarded public secrets in the world of legal theory and film theory. This is a world where the game of republican democracy is played out, not in public institutions of justice, but in shadow courtrooms instituted in cinema screens across the country, where the accused is neither the petty thief nor the dreaded murderer, but the Indian legal system itself. Lawrence’s presentation will examine the relationship between ideas of love, justice and recognition as they unfold in cinematic courtrooms, and will argue that cinema serves as the affective archive of the juridical unconscious.
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2. About dinner
Lawrence has suggested that we collectively make Indian-Chinese dinner. He will provide the recipe. We will get the ingredients.
You will hopefully bring the drinks. Wine or some other contribution will be greatly appreciated!
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3. About Lawrence Liang
Lawrence Liang is a researcher and writer based at the Alternative Law Forum. His areas of interest have been in the intersection of law, culture and technology. He has worked closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project – Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. Liang is author of the “Guide to open content licenses” in 2004. The guide is available online. (See links below.) He is currently working on a book on law and justice in Hindi cinema.
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4. About Alternative Law Forum
from the ALF website:
ALF was started in March, 2000, by a collective of lawyers with the belief that there was a need for an alternative practice of law. We recognize that a practice of law is inherently political. We are committed to a practice of law which will respond to issues of social and economic injustice.
Over the past few years ALF has grown from being a legal service provider to becoming a space that integrates alternative lawyering with critical research, alternative dispute resolution, pedagogic interventions and more generally maintaining sustained legal interventions in various social issues. We are also committed to an inter disciplinary interrogation of the law using creative forms.
ALF perceives itself simultaneously as a space that provides qualitative legal services to marginalized groups, as an autonomous research institution with a strong interdisciplinary approach working with practitioners from other fields, as a public legal resource using conventional and unconventional forms of creating access to information, as a centre for generating quality resources that will make interventions in legal education and training, and as finally a platform to enable collaborative and creative models of knowledge production.
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5. Useful links
The Black and White (and Grey) of Copyright
by Lawrence Liang
http://world-information.org/wio/readme/992003309/1154963624
Pandora’s Index
http://copyriot.se/2008/11/15/indexing-pandoras-index-by-lawrence-liang/
Shoot, Share and Create
http://www.altlawforum.org/PUBLICATIONS/shoot_share
A Guide To Open Content Licenses
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide