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[Laetitia Nanquette]

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST:

MASTERCLASS

‘Unworlding Iran? Human Rights and Universality

in Contemporary Iranian Cinema’

with Associate Professor Amy Motlagh

Monday 12th December, 2016

The School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales is calling for Expressions of Interest for a forthcoming Masterclass led by Associate Professor Amy Motlagh of the American University in Cairo.

This masterclass will explore the nexus between Iranian cinema and human rights. Iran is unique in being both a country singled out for human rights abuses that shock the international community as well as developing a cinema that has dazzled the world with its brilliance. Much has been made outside of Iran of the beauty and philosophical nature of these films, all of which were produced in the climate of Islamicization that followed the 1979 Revolution. Yet few critics have understood the way in which Iran's human rights abuses are uniquely chronicled and surreptitiously criticized in these films.  Far from simply showing the way in which beauty exists even in the most humble or repressed circumstances, many of these films make trenchant critiques not only of the state of human rights in Iran, but also of the West's position as arbiter of rights and the hypocrisy of the internationalist human rights community.

Amy Motlagh is an Associate Professor and currently the Director of graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is a trained Persianist with long-standing research interests in gender, law and the cultural production of the Middle East.

Please send EOI to worlding.iran at unsw.edu.au<mailto:worlding.iran at unsw.edu.au> by Wednesday 30 November 2016 with a brief biographical note. The Masterclass will run from 10am-1pm on Monday 12th December 2016. Attendance is free and includes lunch but registration is essential as numbers are limited. The Masterclass is part of the Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World organized at UNSW on 8th-9th December:

https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/masterclass-unworlding-iran-human-rights-and-universality-in-contemporary-iranian-cinema/

Dr Laetitia Nanquette,
Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
+61 (2) 9385 7792
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