Recent news from the Society
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) is deeply concerned about the expansion of gender-based restrictions on access to programmes at Syria’s newly established defence and security universities.
The BRISMES Graduate Section has published a new report providing critical career guidance for doctoral students and early career researchers in Middle East studies. Titled Pathways to Publishing: Navigating Early Careers in Middle East Studies, the document...
We are excited to share that we’ve launched two new products on our BRISMES shop: the BRISMES Hoodie and the BRISMES Notebook.
The Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has written to Roskilde University to express our profound concern regarding the dismissal of Professor Michelle Pace from her position as Professor of...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) is profoundly concerned by the dismissal of Professor Michelle Pace from her position as Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark.
We are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2027 BRISMES conference, co-hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University are now open. We warmly invite you to review the call for papers and submit your abstracts...
BRISMES members have approved new BRISMES membership fees for 2027, following a vote at the Society’s 2026 Annual General Meeting.
The lecture will now be co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS) and the SOAS Middle East Institute (SMEI), and will be held in a hybrid format.