Recent news from the Society
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies will be held as follows: Venue: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW Date: Tuesday, 2 July 2024 Time: 13:30-15:00...
Join colleagues from the grassroots organization Academia for Equality for a conversation on the situation in Israeli universities and colleges and the state of the struggle for academic freedom.
On 28 May, the Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the three presidents comprising the Berlin University Alliance to express our profound concern over the continued restriction of protests against the war in Gaza and actions in solidarity with the...
On 28 May, the Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the president of the German Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) to express our profound concern over the continued restriction of protests against the war in Gaza and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the German Federal Minister of Education and Research to express our profound concern over remarks made in the Bild-Zeitung and the ensuing defamation campaign against academic staff in Berlin who...
Registration for non-presenting delegates for the 2024 BRISMES conference is now open until 10 June 2024.
The Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the President of The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to express our deep concern about the process The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has adopted for choosing the winners of its Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel...
Over the past seven months, academic communities – students, staff, lecturers, and others – have watched the leaders of their institutions remain silent in the wake of the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel is plausibly carrying...