2026 BRISMES Conference | Submission Deadline Extended

The deadline for submissions to the upcoming BRISMES Annual Conference—“War, Empire, and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide”—has been extended to Sunday, 18 January 2026, at midnight (UK time).

This year's conference will be held at SOAS University of London from 23–25 June 2026, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute.

In addition to submissions aligned with the conference theme, we welcome papers on a broad range of topics related to Middle East Studies. Relevant fields include, but are not limited to, politics, culture & society, literature, anthropology, economics, history, linguistics, and translation studies, with a focus on the MENA region. We welcome proposals for Panels, Roundtables, Individual/Co-authored Papers, and Creative Interventions. 

Please find here the full call for papers.

To submit, please read the instructions for submission.

If you have any questions, please write to conference@brismes.org.