Recent news from the Society
BRISMES has written to the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews to express deep concern over the University’s response to Rector Stella Maris’ recent communication to students in the wake of the catastrophic violence and...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the president of Achva Academic College to express our profound concern over the dismissal of Dr. Uri Horesh
Join us on 1 December for a roundtable is co-hosted by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Subcommittee and the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group.
Join us on 14 November for a webinar on academic freedom and the Gaza war with speakers from Adalah, the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Academic Freedom Committees of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the Italian Society for Middle...
Recognising the immense challenges to focusing on academic work in these devasting times, we are extending the deadline for submissions for the 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize to 15 November.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to members of the UKRI Board to express our deep concern about the letter addressed to the Chief Executive of UKRI, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, and shared on the social media platform X by the...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the president of David Yellin Academic College for Education to express profound concern over the suspension of Professor Nurit Peled Elhanan.
Submissions for the 2024 BRISMES conference, hosted by the Richardson Institute, SEPAD, and the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, are now open. Please take a look at our full call for papers and submit an abstract...