2026 BRISMES Conference
Conference Schedule
Explore our conference schedule, featuring over 100 panels and plenaries. These sessions cover a wide range of topics, both within and beyond the conference's main theme "War, Empire, and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide". The programme reflects the interdisciplinary and international character of the conference, creating space for critical dialogue, debate, and collective reflection across diverse fields and perspectives.
Conference Speakers
Our speakers will address urgent political and social questions shaping the Middle East and North Africa and their global entanglements, including war and displacement, infrastructures of empire, resistance and solidarity movements, ecology and climate crisis, media and representation, authoritarianism, decolonial thought, gender and sexuality, migration, and the politics of everyday life. Learn about their bios, presentation titles, and abstracts.
Database of Expertise
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