Thirteenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies
A new world order - a new Middle East?
University of Oslo, Norway, 25–27 September 2025
Registration for the 2025 conference is now closed for presenting participants. Non-presenting audience can still register here. The conference takes place at the University of Oslo, Blindern campus. For more details and other practical information, click here.
The program for the Thirteenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies can be found here.
The 13th NSMES conference is organized and hosted by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS) at the University of Oslo. The NSMES is an independent non-profit association for scholars in the Nordic countries working on the Middle East. It covers all subjects in the humanities and social sciences, from antiquity to the present day. The NSMES conference takes place every third year and is organized and hosted by universities in the Nordic countries. It is also open for participants beyond the Nordic countries. This time the theme for the multidisciplinary conference is “A new world order - a new Middle East?”.