Recent news from the Society
BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom express condemnation of the Free University of Berlin’s cancellation of the lectures planned for February 19th by the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, and the Israeli...
BRISMES is seeking nominations for a new President, who will play a leading role in the Society as President-Elect (2025-2026) and subsequently President (2026-2028).
The Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has written to the University of Bristol to express deep concern at its decision to appeal the employment tribunal’s February 5, 2024, judgement on the...
We are delighted to announce that Hüseyin Göcen has been selected as the winner of the 2024 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize with Abdullah Mohammed Alahmari receiving Honourable Mention.
Submissions are invited for the 2025 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. The aim of this award is to support activities geared towards strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. Two awards of £3,000 each are available....
The submission deadline for the 2025 BRISMES conference has been extended to 10 January 2025.
The AHRC-funded Syrian Academics and Researchers’ Network (SARN) in the UK, a partner of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), would like to congratulate the Syrian people on the end of the 54-year old Assad dictatorship in their...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to TU Darmstadt's Political Science Institute expressing grave concern over the cancellation of Dr Camila Vergara's Eugen Kogon Lecture, “Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War, and the Destruction of Nature.”...