An event organized by Osgoode Hall Law School’s Law.Arts.Culture will feature a lecture and discussion on the topic of “Perilous Light: On the Visual Economy of Western Humanitarianism” by Professor Fuyuki Kurasawa on Feb. 14.
Professor Fuyuki Kurasawa of the Department of Sociology, in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University, and director of the Global Digital Citizenship Lab, will lead the lecture and discussion that runs 12:30 to 2pm in Room 2027 of Osgoode Hall Law School.
Simultaneously broadening and narrowing Godard’s statement – “Thus, the art form of the 19th century, cinema, made the 20th century exist, which by itself did not exist much.” (Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinéma) – one could argue that still and moving images made humanitarian crises exist, which by themselves would not have existed much as transnational public events in the Euro-American world during the last century, and even less so in our own.