2025 BRISMES Conference | Submission Deadline Extended
The submission deadline for the 2025 BRISMES conference has been extended to 10 January 2025.
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SARN-BRISMES Statement on the Collapse of the Assad Dictatorship
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...
Academic Freedom | Letter to TU Darmstadt Institute of Political Science
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.”...
BRISMES Event - Bearing Witness to Gaza’s Scholasticide
While the world watches the erasure of Gaza in real-time, we invite you to hear from a panel of educators from Gaza (primary and secondary school levels, and Higher Education) who will recount their experience with scholasticide first hand, and share...
Academic Freedom | Letter to German Federal Minister of Education and Research Regarding Draft Joint Parliamentary Resolution to Counter Antisemitism
The Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) expresses profound concern over a draft joint parliamentary resolution of the parliamentary groups of the SPD, CDU/CSU, Bündnis90/Die Grünen and FDP that purports...
BRISMES Trustee Dr Feras Alkabani celebrates the launch of his new book
On Wednesday evening, 6 November 2024, in the Havas Offices near King’s Cross, Dr Feras Alkabani was joined by academics, public figures, diplomats, policymakers and journalists, along with friends and colleagues to celebrate the publication of his...
SARN UK Second AHRC-Funded Workshop at Cambridge
17 UK-based Syrian academics and artists met at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, on Saturday, 26 October 2024, to showcase their collaborative research projects.
Academic Freedom | Response to UUK Regarding the Expert Statement by UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has replied to UUK to follow up on the recent expert statement by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Gina Romero, in which she identifies systematic...