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CALL FOR PAPERS"Allah n'est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures"SFPS Postgraduate Study DayUniversity of Stirling, UK,20 June 2013From France to West Africa and farther afield in the Francophone world,Islam is a dominant force in the universe that writers, filmmakers andother social and cultural actors hail from and often turn to for criticalinspiration. It has played a major role in the history of thisworld before, during and after the colonial period. However, the study ofIslam has not received sufficient attention in Francophone postcolonial andcultural studies. Over a decade into the twenty-first century, Islam isstill heavily studied in its disciplinary stronghold of area studies butrarely in the postcolonial zones of the arts and the humanities. Whenone considers its central position in many Francophone cultures and theinsufficient attention it has received in postcolonial studies, Islam canthus be seen as a very promising research site for new criticalperspectives on cultural production in and beyond the Francophone world.The next postgraduate study day of the Society for Francophone PostcolonialStudies (SFPS) will take place at the University of Stirling on 20 June2013. It aims to bring together postgraduate researchers and attendingscholars in the humanities and the social sciences to reflect on thelocation of Islam in Francophone cultures. Potential themes might includebut are not limited to:● Representations of pre-colonial Islam● Islam in colonial discourse● Islam and postcolonialism● Islam in Francophone literature, cinema, mass media, and arts● Diasporic and Transatlantic Islam● *Islam Francais? Islam laïque?*● Islam and immigration● Political Islam● Francophone responses to ‘9/11’● Islam in West Africa, the Francophone Caribbean and the Maghreb● Islam in French and Francophone StudiesProposals of 250 words in English or French accompanied by a shortbiography to be sent to jamal.bahmad@stir.ac.uk by 15 March 2013.--Jamal BahmadSchool of Arts and HumanitiesUniversity of StirlingFK9 4LAStirlingScotlandUK