Decolonial Europe Day
By Decolonial Europe Collective
The fourth edition unfolds across four sessions in May 2026.
Decolonial Europe Day 2026 brings together activists, researchers, organisers and practitioners working on decolonial struggles across Europe. This fourth edition takes place as a series of four sessions, combining online and in-person conversations to create deeper dialogue, collective reflection and stronger connections across movements.
DED 2026: Session 1: Decolonial Europe Today: Power, Systems, and Possibility
This opening session launches Decolonial Europe Day 2026 and establishes the broader political and analytical framework for the series. It focuses on what decoloniality means in Europe today, how colonial power continues through institutions, borders
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (UTC+02:00)
DED 2026: Session 2: Beyond the Borders: Migration, Coloniality and Fortress Europe
This online panel explores borders as colonial technologies, racialised migration regimes, border violence, the externalisation of European migration control, and migrant-led resistance and solidarity networks across different contexts and border reg
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (UTC+02:00)
DED 2026: Session 3: Decoloniality and Shifting Civic Spaces: Struggles in a Changing European Landscape
Held in Brussels, this session focuses on shrinking civic space across Europe, institutional pressures on civil society and social movements, funding structures and depoliticisation, and strategies of resistance and organising under constraint.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (UTC+02:00)
DED 2026: Session 4: From Silos to Solidarity: Organising Across Movements
This closing session brings together reflections from across the series and explores cross-movement learning between anti-racist, feminist, migrant, climate and labour struggles, including the challenges and possibilities of coalition-building, knowl
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (UTC+02:00)
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