Recent news from the Society
We are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2026 BRISMES conference, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute, are now open. We warmly invite you to review the call for papers and submit your abstracts for individual/co-authored presentations,...
Brief Encounters, the open-access peer-reviewed journal funded by CHASE, is overjoyed to announce the publication of the first contributions to a Special Issue composed of work by students and faculty of the English Department at Al-Aqsa University in...
The submission deadline for the 2026 BRISMES conference has been extended to 18 January 2026.
On 19 November 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Ilan Pappé for the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture. The lecture was held online and was entitled 'Why There is a Need for Palestine Studies?'.
BRISMES invites you to celebrate this year’s recipients of the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize, awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation submitted at a British university on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities....
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the ambassador of Kuwait in the UK to express our deep concern over the arrest of Dr Jassim Aljezza.
We have written to Iranian authorities to express our deep concern regarding recent developments affecting academic freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly the reported arrests of scholars during November 2025.
BRISMES, DAVO, MESA and SeSaMO have sent a joint letter to express our deep concern regarding the cancellation of the symposium “Palestine and Europe” organized by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France and the...