The Centre for Iranian Studies at the University of Durham
- The Centre for Iranian Studies at the University of Durham
The Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) was founded in 1999 as a subsidiary research body of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University. Its central aim is to facilitate and encourage debate, research and the growth of Iranian Studies in the UK. This will be achieved through three principal routes:
* By encouraging links and exchanges between academics and institutions in the UK and Iran
* By hosting seminars, workshops and conferences to bring together the latest research and to highlight and communicate to a wider audience, the richness and variety of Iranian studies
* By facilitating the publication of high quality studies, principally through the medium of the Durham Middle East Papers series.
The Centre is managed by a Board. The day-to-day running of the Centre is the responsibility of an Executive Committee consisting of Dr. J.P. Luft (Acting Director, j.p.luft@durham.ac.uk), and Dr. C. Turner (Acting Director, c.p.turner@durham.ac.uk) and Dr. Raza Molavi, (Executive Director, reza.molavi@durham.ac.uk).
As part of the establishment of the Shia studies program, Durham University staged a two day Islamically orientated bioethics conference. The conference successfully brought together prominent Iranian clerics and British scholars in an exchange of ideas. The papers presented dealt with contemporary Islamic Shia thinking in relation to cloning, in vitro fertilisation and gender reassignment and shed light on contemporary Shia thinking more broadly. The Centre for Iranian Studies now hopes that the conference will become an annual event, further establishing Durham University's position as an international centre for Islamic and Shia studies.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/iranian.studies/
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