Erotic Encounters of an Extra Judicial Kind: The Liminal Worlds of Law and Crime in Indian Cinema

Subtitle: 
Imagining the Future in India at 70 Speaker Series
Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Lawrence Liang
Date: 
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
501 Cathedral of Learning

Lawrence Liang is a professor of Law at Ambedkar University and currently Rice Scholar at Yale University. He co-founded Alternative Law Forum (ALF), a public interest and human rights lawyering group in Bangalore with whom he worked for fifteen years. ALF has engaged in strategic litigation on various socio-legal issues, and Liang's work lies at the intersection of law, technology, and culture. He is a member of the Kafila collective and a co-founder of two online video archives: indiancine.ma and pad.ma

Respondents: Jinying Li (Film Studies) and Michael Madison (School of Law)

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Film and Media Studies Program
School of Law
Department of English
Cultural Studies Program
Humanities Center