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SUMMARY:A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan - David Zurick
DESCRIPTION:A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan\n\n\n\nBook Launch and Photo Lecture w/ David Zurick \n\n\n\nThursday\, Nov. 15\, 2018\, 5:30-7:30 pm \n\n\n\nOrozco Room (#712)\, 66 W. 12th St.\, The New School \n\n\n\nRSVP NOW \n\n\n\nIn this illustrated lecture\, geographer and photographer David Zurick explores the connections between visual culture\, landscape change\, and the loss of cultural memory in small-town India. \n\n\n\nFor several years\, Zurick has been making photographs in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan\, among little-known settlements that owe their origins to the trade caravans that once crossed the Thar Desert. In the 1800s\, prosperous merchants financed the construction of ornate buildings in the towns and commissioned artists to decorate them with exquisite murals depicting local life and society. For generations\, these painted buildings served the towns as trading houses\, pleasure palaces\, temples\, caravansaries\, and private homes. Eventually\, the trading families left Shekhawati for India’s burgeoning cities and abandoned their opulent structures. Some were left in the charge of caretakers; squatters took up residence in many; most simply remain vacant. The buildings have slowly deteriorated over time\, ravaged by climate and neglect\, and now lie scattered among the desert settlements as an elegiac collection of beautiful living ruins – a crumbling open-air gallery set amid the ordinary affairs of small town life in rural India. As the mural-clad buildings of the painted towns disappear\, the opportunity for local residents to engage with their cultural heritage declines\, and the beauty of our lived-world is further diminished. In this presentation\, Zurick discovers the unique richness of this remote vernacular architecture and highlights ongoing efforts to designate the region a UNESCO World Heritage Site. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout David Zurick \n\n\n\nDavid Zurick is an academically trained geographer (PhD\, University of Hawaii and East-West Center\, Honolulu) and a self-taught photographer. He writes and photographs extensively about Asia and the Pacific region\, with a special focus on the cultural landscapes of South Asia and the Himalaya. His books and photography have won numerous awards and acclaimed reviews\, including the National Outdoor Book Award\, Banff International Mountain Book Award Finalist (twice)\, and Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Visual Artist Fellowship Award (twice). His geographical studies and photography have been supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation\, American Geographical Society\, Banff Centre\, and other major funding organizations. In 2009 he received the “Mt Everest Award” for his lifetime achievement in Himalaya studies. David is a Fellow of The Explorers Club. He lectures and exhibits at academic and film arts organizations worldwide. His photography books include Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya\, Southern Crossings\, and Land of Pure Vision. \n\n\n\nYou can learn more about David’s work at his website www.davidzurick.com and blog www.medium.com/@david.zurick.
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SUMMARY:A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute is proud to present “A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic”\, a talk with author\, lawyer\, and Yale professor Rohit De on his book\, A People’s Constitution. \n\n\n\n“What difference did the enactment of the the Indian constitution make on everyday lives of its citizens? It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950\, a document in English created by elite consensus\, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India\, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society\, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers\, smugglers\, petty vendors\, butchers\, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. \n\n\n\nThe Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence\, took recourse to it\, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy\, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws\, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control\, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws\, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution.” \n\n\n\nThe Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRohit De is lawyer and an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.  Prior to Yale\, he was a Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with Chief Justice K.G Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitutional reform projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is currently working on a history of civil liberties arising out of Asia and Africa post WW2 and mediated through Indian diasporic lawyers.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/a-peoples-constitution-the-everyday-life-of-law-in-the-indian-republic/
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