Featured Events
Middle East Careers - Panel Discussion
08/11/2018 5:00pm
BRISMES and the University of Manchester
BRISMES and the University of Manchester are delighted to host a careers evening for students interested in or working on the Middle East. There will a panel discussion with professionals from different sectors including academia, business and the diplomatic service, followed by a networking reception where students will have an opportunity to question the panellists informally.
Adonis, the internationally renowned poet and theoretician of Arab poetics, gives the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Arabic Translation Prize Lecture on "Translation, a Second Act of Creation"
09/11/2018 7:00pm - 09/11/2018 8:30pm
Banipal Trust for Arab Literature www.banipaltrust.org.uk
Is this the time of translation? Is translation a second act of creation? In his lecture Adonis will consider the relationship of translation to human identity. He will explore the fact that human beings live in the same chronological moment, but in multiple, disparate moments culturally. Translation creates, he argues, a universal cultural time in which the world gains new knowledge and each language discovers its creative presence in other languages. He will go on to consider how new life can be breathed into the linguistic destruction that is the translated poem.
52nd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA):
15/11/2018 8:00am - 18/11/2018 5:00pm
Middle East Studies Association
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 February 2018.
Shari'a, dissection and justice in modern Egypt - BRISMES Annual Lecture 2018 by Professor Khaled Fahmy
20/11/2018 5:30pm - 20/11/2018 8:00pm
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
This lecture describes the process of the introduction of modern medicine in early nineteenth-century Egypt. It describes how dissection was instituted as a central practice in the Qasr al-'Aini School of Medicine, Egypt's first institution of modern medicine founded in 1827. It charts how different segments of Egyptian society understood and reacted to this disturbing practice. It also follows the increasing reliance of a budding legal system on autopsies as a prime means to establish legal proof in criminal cases. Followed by drinks reception.
Ancient Lives, New Stories: Current Research on the Ancient Near East
01/12/2018 9:00am - 02/12/2018 5:00pm
The British Museum & SOAS-University of London
The London Postgraduate Conference for the Ancient Near East is an opportunity for graduate students (Master's and PhD) and early career researchers to showcase their research at any stage of progress. The primary aim of this event is to create a forum of discussion for emerging scholars and to foster exchanges between the diverse disciplines working on the Ancient Near East, including Archaeology, Assyriology, Anthropology, Historiography, Conservation and Museum Studies. The conference is open to all interested in knowing more about current research on the Ancient Near East.
01/12/2018 9:00am - 02/12/2018 5:00pm
The British Museum & SOAS-University of London
The London Postgraduate Conference for the Ancient Near East is an opportunity for graduate students (Master's and PhD) and early career researchers to showcase their research at any stage of progress. The primary aim of this event is to create a forum of discussion for emerging scholars and to foster exchanges between the diverse disciplines working on the Ancient Near East, including Archaeology, Assyriology, Anthropology, Historiography, Conservation and Museum Studies. The conference is open to all interested in knowing more about current research on the Ancient Near East.
Joining the Dots: Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies
24/06/2019 1:00pm - 27/06/2019 5:00pm
BRISMES and AIMES, University of Leeds
Though ‘interdisciplinarity' is consistently upheld as an important and necessary aspect of enterprising scholarly research within the field of Middle Eastern Studies, the precise nature of effective interdisciplinary research remains underexplored. The Conference seeks to celebrate interdisciplinarity as vital in understanding the interconnectedness of the social, cultural, political and economic structures and conditions throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Proposals for complete panels (of either four or five speakers) are very much welcomed as are individual papers.
Monday 1st January 2018
HASSAN MASSOUDY Breath, Gesture and Light
07/12/2017 10:00am - 27/01/2018 5:00pm
October Gallery
October Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by master artist-calligrapher, Hassan Massoudy. This will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery. Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. His work features the texts of a diverse range of writers, from poet, Charles Baudelaire and philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Virgil and Ibn ‘Arabi.
07/12/2017 10:00am - 27/01/2018 5:00pm
October Gallery
October Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by master artist-calligrapher, Hassan Massoudy. This will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery. Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. His work features the texts of a diverse range of writers, from poet, Charles Baudelaire and philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Virgil and Ibn ‘Arabi.
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