Call for Applications, Workshop on "Minorities and Popular Culture in the Modern Middle East," SOAS, London, 12 June 2015, application deadline: 15 Dec. 2014

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Thanks to modern mass communication media and commercial entertainment, popular culture has increasingly become a large industry geared for massive consumption while engendering and contesting national and communal identities. Since late nineteenth century, Middle Eastern minorities have contributed to the making of popular culture industries as public performers, producers, writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc. Meanwhile, popular culture has been a crucial tool in constructing public imagery of both majority and minority ethnic and religious communities. Thus, popular culture has been a site of contradictions and contestations. This workshop aims at exploring the contribution of all religious and ethnic minorities to the popular culture industries and how popular culture products have represented minorities and dealt with the minority question in modern Middle East during the twentieth century and at present. The workshop hopes to examine national, regional, and cross-regional case studies covering the area from Iran to Morocco, from Turkey to Sudan and beyond. Comparative and diasporic studies are particularly welcome.

Call for Papers for an international workshop on:
Minorities and Popular Culture in Modern Middle East:
Representation and Participation
Organized by:
Woolf Institute, Cambridge
&
Centre for Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS,
University of London
Venue: SOAS, University of London Brunei Gallery, room B102
Date: 12 June 2015
Conference rationale
Thanks to modern mass communication media and commercial entertainment, popular culture
has increasingly become a large industry geared for massive consumption while engendering and
contesting national and communal identities. Since late nineteenth century, Middle Eastern
minorities have contributed to the making of popular culture industries as public performers,
producers, writers, filmmakers, musicians, etc. Meanwhile, popular culture has been a crucial
tool in constructing public imagery of both majority and minority ethnic and religious
communities. Thus, popular culture has been a site of contradictions and contestations.
This workshop aims at exploring the contribution of all religious and ethnic minorities to the
popular culture industries and how popular culture products have represented minorities and
dealt with the minority question in modern Middle East during the twentieth century and at
present. The workshop hopes to examine national, regional, and cross-regional case studies
covering the area from Iran to Morocco, from Turkey to Sudan and beyond. Comparative and
diasporic studies are particularly welcome.
Themes may include but are not limited to:

-Histories of the contribution of ethnic and religious minorities to music, cinema, popular press/
publications, theater, and TV productions
-Representation of ethnic and religious minorities in music, cinema, theater, popular press and
TV productions in past and present
-The treatment of minority question in entertainment industry
-Nostalgic trends in popular production to good old days of ethnic-diversity in Middle East
- Jews, Arabs, and Arab-Jews in Israeli popular culture
-The Arab-Israeli conflict in popular culture
- The dynamic of contemporary Christian media in the Arab world
- Popular culture and the LBGT communities
-Gendering minorities in popular culture
- Popular culture and racializing minorities
-State’s engagement of popular culture production to other or integrate minorities
Please submit 200 word abstracts to sc736@cam.ac.uk by December 12. Those accepted for the
workshop will be notified by early February.
There will be available funds for participants coming from the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.

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