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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST</b>:</font></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">MASTERCLASS</font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">‘Unworlding Iran? Human Rights and Universality</font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">in Contemporary Iranian Cinema’</font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><i class=""><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">with Associate Professor Amy Motlagh</font></span></i></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">Monday 12<sup class="">th</sup> December, 2016</font></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><font class="">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.</font></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;">Amy Motlagh is</span><span class="" style="background-color: white;"> 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.</span></font></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="">Please send EOI to </span><a href="mailto:worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au" class=""><span class="" style="color: black;">worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au</span></a><span class=""> by
Wednesday 30 November 2016 with a brief biographical note. The Masterclass will run from 10am-1pm on Monday 12<sup class="">th</sup> December 2016. Attendance is free and includes lunch but registration is essential as numbers are limited. The Masterclass
is part of the </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World organized at UNSW on 8<sup class="">th</sup>-9<sup class="">th</sup> December:</span><span class=""></span></font></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/masterclass-unworlding-iran-human-rights-and-universality-in-contemporary-iranian-cinema/" class="">https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/masterclass-unworlding-iran-human-rights-and-universality-in-contemporary-iranian-cinema/</a></span></p>
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School of Arts and Media,<br class="">
University of New South Wales, Sydney</div>
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