Recent news from the Society
Registration is open for an online research development seminar examining how post-colonial states in the Middle East became a site of hybrid sovereignties, porous borders, identity politics, and liminality impacting everyday life
We are delighted to announce that submissions are open for the 2023 BRISMES Annual Conference! The conference will take place from 3 to 5 July 2023 and will be hosted by the University of Exeter. We invite proposals on the theme of Ecology, Crisis, and...
We are delighted to announce that Hannah Owens has been selected as the winner of the 2022 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize with Faiq Mari receiving Honourable Mention.
This roundtable discussion responds to the recent uprisings taking place in Iran, asking how we can engage in meaningful forms of solidarity through transnational, feminist, and queer movements and perspectives.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has published a statement of solidarity with academic staff and students in Iran who have been protesting following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Nadje Al-Ali will give the 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture. The title of the lecture will be Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East.
On Wednesday 19 October, the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee, will host this panel discussing contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’.
The 2022 International Workshop: 'Kurdistan in International and Regional Affairs II' took place on 15 September 2022 in Erbil (KRI, Iraq). The event, jointly organised by the French Lebanese University, Rojava University and BRISMES, brought together...