Registration Open for the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé
Why There is a Need for Palestine Studies?
BRISMES warmly invites members and non-members to attend the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture Why There is a Need for Palestine Studies? with Professor Ilan Pappé.
The BRISMES Annual Lecture provides an opportunity for members and non-members to hear from a distinguished scholar or expert within the field of Middle Eastern Studies and is a major event in the BRISMES calendar. The lecture is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
Date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Location: Online via Zoom
About the Lecture
In recent decades, a new area of inquiry has emerged: Palestine Studies. It has attracted scholars and students who are concerned about Palestine and its people and yet committed to professional acumen and solid scholarship. Given the pivotal role Palestine has occupied in the public awareness over the last two years, Palestine Studies has offered discussions that transcend concern for Israel and Palestine and cover global issues such as international justice, global warming, immigration and poverty. The lecture will follow the origins of this field, discuss its current status and offer some thoughts about its future.
Professor Ilan Pappé is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the University of Exeter's Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of the board of the charity The Nakba Memorial Foundation. Born in Haifa in 1954, he received his D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. From 1984 to 2006, he taught at the University of Haifa and moved to the UK in 2007.
He has written 22 books, among them The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) and On Palestine (jointly with Noam Chomsky in 2010). His most recent books are The Ten Myths of Israel (2018), The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Israeli Occupation (2019), A Historical Dictionary of Palestine (with Johnny Mansour 2021), Our Vision for Liberation (with Ramzy Baroud 2022), Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2024), A Very Short History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2024), and his latest book, Israel on the Brink (2025).