Recent news from the Society
The Academic Freedom Committee of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), of the Société d’études du Moyen-Orient et du monde musulman (SEMOMM) and of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) have written to Tunisian...
The Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) expresses deep concerns regarding recent actions taken by the University of Sheffield, which appear to restrict freedom of speech and academic freedom, particularly...
Following the refusal of the University of St Andrews to respond to our letter about the possible role of a university donor in the dismissal of Rector Stella Maris, we have now submitted a Freedom of Information request to seek answers.
Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2024 BRISMES Annual Lecture Witness to Genocide - In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to UUK to follow up on the recent expert statement by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Gina Romero, in which she identifies systematic...
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Committee on Academic Freedom welcomes the new statement by Gina Romero, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
Over the past year, BRISMES has observed a troubling trend: health and safety regulations, originally designed to protect workers from injury or illness and established as fundamental rights through decades of union campaigning,1 are now being misused...
Submissions for the 2025 BRISMES conference, hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University, are now open. Please take a look at our call for papers and submit an abstract for an individual presentation, panel and/or...