Opportunities

Location: University of Oxford
Co-convenors: Dr. Weston Bland and Dr. Cyma Farah, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

Taking inspiration from the centennial anniversary of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution, this workshop asks how historical actors in the modern Middle East have approached constitutions as mediators of religious identity. From nineteenth-century Ottoman imperial decrees to the constitutional revolutions of the twentieth century, constitutional governance has emerged as a critical feature of debate in the political order of the Middle East during the transition from empire to colonial rule to nation-states.

The workshop will take place over two days on Thursday and Friday, 11 and 12 June 2026. Sessions will be structured around the discussion of individual pre-circulated papers.  These discussions are aimed at providing participants with feedback in order to revise papers for publication as part of a special issue or edited volume arising from the workshop. 

Organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University

We warmly invite the submission of papers for a British Academy Conference, Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias, at the London School of Economics on Thursday 28 – Friday 29 May 2026.

The important historical legacies of the Independence struggle and exciting recent developments in Algerian political, social, cultural and economic fields call for a public platform in the UK for scholars working on Algeria to share their research. Prioritising decolonising, feminist and other innovative approaches in order to learn from Algeria’s important revolutionary history, contemporary struggles and future imaginations, this conference encourages an intersectional and multidisciplinary approach. We welcome applications from disciplines including, but not limited to: history, politics, sociology, geography, ecology, economics, gender, governance, film, art, literary and media studies, languages, diaspora studies. We particularly encourage early career researchers to submit paper proposals.

Kurdish Studies Conference 2026, Wednesday 29 April - Friday 1 May, LSE

We warmly invite the submission of papers for the fourth Kurdish Studies Conference organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

The conference welcomes paper submissions with social sciences and humanities disciplinary approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies. These might include but are not limited to: history; political movements; social movements; gender; political representation; governance; displacement; anthropology; nationalism; ethnography; ecology; political economy; international relations; cultural studies; diaspora; security; and religion.

The LSE-Kuwait Programme is pleased to accept applications for a policy training workshop, titled Researching Education Policy, Leadership, and Agency, to be held in Kuwait from 25-26 January 2026. The LSE Kuwait Programme is hosted at the LSE Middle East Centre and supported by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). 

The editors welcome submissions for the tenth anniversary issue of the Oxford Middle East Review (OMER), a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal for discussion and debate on issues relating to the Middle East and North Africa. We are accepting submissions that critically engage with the theme of Reconstruction – understood not only as the rebuilding that follows destruction, but as a process of reimagining futures and renegotiating power across the Middle East and North Africa, with a broad temporal theme (though typically the contemporary MENA world, from the mid-1800s onwards). Papers will be considered for the journal’s two sections: a policy section (shorter pieces up to 2,000 words in length) and a research section (in-depth articles from 7,500-10,000 words). We are also welcoming interest in individuals who would like to review some of the latest books on the MENA region, of which we have a selection.

This international conference aims to explore the central role of culture and art in the reconstruction and regeneration of the social fabric, through a reinterpretation of trauma as a driver of creation and preservation of cultural memory (Erll and Nünning, 2008) and as a form of resistance to the politics of erasure. Art, in its many material and immaterial expressions, leads to a reappropriation of space – geographical and symbolic – and time, through a process of “reorganization” of an unspeakable present (Crone and Mollerup, 2024), constantly disrupted by trauma, but which, through its representation, can be “recreated” and pave the way for a different future. 

We encourage papers dealing with the interconnections between trauma, memory and resistance in multiple artistic languages – literature, cinema, theatre, painting, photography, visual arts, sculpture, to name but a few – to highlight the role of art in reinterpreting trauma, making it a source of memory and thus a basis for social change. The focus will be on the artistic production, especially during the 21st century, created by Palestinian artists about Palestine, including those in the diaspora.

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is excited to announce that the 2026 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. This international prize is awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. The award includes a cash prize of £1000 which will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS.

Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found via the link below.