Recent news from the Society
Syrian academics and researchers from across the UK and beyond gathered at the University of Cambridge on 17–18 September 2026 for a major interdisciplinary conference that examined the intellectual, social and institutional questions emerging from...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom strongly condemns the UK Home Office’s decision to deny entry to the Swedish academic Dr Andreas Malm on the grounds that his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good”.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) is deeply concerned about the expansion of gender-based restrictions on access to programmes at Syria’s newly established defence and security universities.
The BRISMES Graduate Section has published a new report providing critical career guidance for doctoral students and early career researchers in Middle East studies. Titled Pathways to Publishing: Navigating Early Careers in Middle East Studies, the document...
We are excited to share that we’ve launched two new products on our BRISMES shop: the BRISMES Hoodie and the BRISMES Notebook.
The Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has written to Roskilde University to express our profound concern regarding the dismissal of Professor Michelle Pace from her position as Professor of...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) is profoundly concerned by the dismissal of Professor Michelle Pace from her position as Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark.
We are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2027 BRISMES conference, co-hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University are now open. We warmly invite you to review the call for papers and submit your abstracts...