Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies

Forthcoming events

A one day seminar at IAIS 
Legacy of Rumi (d. 1273) in Later Islamic Philosophy and Poetry
9am, Saturday 3 December 2011.

Past Events

• 10 November 2010
  ‘Iran's Mongol Experience’
  This seminar held by Professor David Morgan of the University of Wisconsin - Madison discussed what the impact of Mongol conquest and rule in 13th and 14th century Iran was: for ill (the initial effects) and, at least to some extent, for good (some aspects of the subsequent Ilkhanid regime), as well as considering what the Mongol legacy to Iran might have been.

• Launch of the Mawlana Rumi Review at the British Library
  12 May 2010
  The Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, University of Exeter, in collaboration with The Rumi Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, have published their first volume of the Mawlana Rumi Review (London: Archetype 2010) featuring seven essays on various aspects of Rumi’s thought. The Mawlana Rumi Review’s Editor, Dr Leonard Lewisohn explains the academic purpose behind the publication in a multi-media report on the Jadid Online website.
  Read the report in English
  Read the report in Persian
  Read the report in Persian Cyrillic script
  View the video about the launch in English
  View the video about the launch in Persian
  Read a report about the launch on the BBC website in Persian

• Exeter, 28 May 2009, at 2pm at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
  “A time for decision: Iran’s presidential elections 2009”
  A lecture with Luciano Zaccara (Honorary Research Fellow at IAIS) who explained the Iranian electoral system and procedures prior to his travel to Iran to observe the 10th Iranian presidential election.

• London, 12 February 2009, at Chatham House, in association with the Royal Institute of International Affairs
  A lecture and seminar with Prof. Gary Sick (Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, and Director of the Gulf2000 network), who discussed the current position of Iran in its international and internal political context.

• CPIS Inaugural roundtable
  Exeter, 29 January 2009, at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
  An afternoon workshop (1.30 - 5 pm) to explore the significance of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the 30th anniversary of which falls at this time. Speakers included:
  • Mr. Baqer Moin (formerly Head of the BBC Persian Service, and biographer of Khomeini),
  • Prof. Farhang Jahanpour (formerly Professor of Language at the University of Isfahan),
  • Prof. Sami Zubaida (Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College),
  • Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam (Professor of Politics at the University of Tehran).

Discussions were followed by a reception to mark the inauguration of the Centre.