This event explores the entangled legacies of racism, colonialism, secularism, and Zionism through the lens of historical memory, religious discourse, and contemporary political violence. Drawing connections between the Netherlands’ own colonial past and the current crisis in Gaza, the conversation asks: how are histories of European empire reproduced in state violence today? What roles do secular and religious narratives play in justifying racial hierarchies, border regimes, and occupation? How has capitalism and Christian Zionism contributed to Dutch complicity in the Gaza genocide?
We bring together three leading thinkers whose work interrogates the ideological foundations of Western liberal democracies and their complicity in systems of oppression, both within Europe and beyond.

We invite you to join the first gathering of the Race in Academia Collective. In this new collective we wish to connect existing networks/initiatives/groups, as well as individuals, of self-identified racialised scholars in The Netherlands.

We will be launcing the Race in Academia Collective on March 21st at this incredible event organised by one of our partner networks: Joy In Academia