The brilliant mezna qato made a great point in her talk as BRISMES this year: while it might rhetorically be powerful to say ‘there are no universities left in gaza’ and is factually true that unis have been targetted and decimated there, it forecloses and ignores the work that the remaining
PSC strongly protests Leeds University attack on Prof James Dickins 'research by BRISMES and ELSC highlighted .. misuse of university disciplinary processes to target Palestinians and pro-Palestinian voices has produced a chilling effect on campuses' - Ben Jamal bricup.org.uk/article/psc-...
30 August 2024 James Dickins, a distinguished specialist in Arabic and long-time advocate of Palestinian human rights who recently retired from the faculty of Leeds University, has been targeted by pr...
A rather bizarre statement from BRISMES. It's absolutely right to reject attacks on academic freedom - that's the role of an academic association. But to "prove" the validity of a theoretical approach - or to determine its correct meaning - is not. www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
Mai Taha and I are planning to submit a linked panel to the 2024 #BRISMES conference on: "The Idea of Home: Politics, Matter and Imaginaries". We are looking for a few more abstracts to complete our panels. Check the abstract below (Deadline Dec 9) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Idea of Home: Politics, Matter and Imaginaries Aya Nassar and Mai Taha This panel invites contributions that interrogate the material, political and cultural imaginary around the idea of home i...
Letter from BRISMES to UKRI in response to Donelan's authoritarian move to censure UKRI researchers. Image below. Text of the letter here: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/letter-...
BRISMES has issued a statement warning of the danger of massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank. We are deeply concerned that, under the cover of the Gaza War, the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank will intensify. www.brismes.ac.uk/files/docume...
Defending your advocacy on Palestine: Briefing prepared in consultation with ELSC, BRISMES Campaigns and London Region UCU representatives for employees in higher education in England and Wales docs.google.com/document/d/1...
DEFENDING YOUR ADVOCACY ON PALESTINE IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT Briefing prepared in consultation with ELSC, BRISMES Campaigns and London Region UCU representatives for employees in higher educat...
BRISMES on suppression of Palestinian speech: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
Please read BRISMES - British Society Middle Eastern Studies' important statement on academic freedom. We cannot allow universities to limit our political rights. We should be free to say there's an ongoing genocide in Gaza. They cannot remove our humanity.
BRISMES calls "on university Vice-Chancellors, Provosts & Deans to resist the rush to ban events, discipline students and faculty, and silence debate; to reassure academic staff that the right to education, freedom of speech, and academic freedom will be protected" www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...