🇪🇺🇵🇸 The EU and Palestine: Complicity, Responsibility & Academic Engagement
📅 Date: Friday, 13th June 2025
🕒 Time: 18:00 – Doors open
📍 Location: Ungdommens Demokratihus, Copenhagen
💸 Cost: FREE! Dinner and cocktails will be served during the event
About the Speaker:
Prof. Pace is a renowned scholar of EU–Middle East relations, with a research portfolio encompassing migration, EU foreign policy, the struggle for Palestinian self-determination, and Zionist settler colonialism, and transnational belonging. She currently holds multiple international affiliations:
She currently holds several international affiliations:
Associate Fellow, Europe Program, Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, Sweden
Associate Member (Non-Resident), Middle East Studies Forum, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia
Talk Overview:
As the situation in Gaza continues to worsen, the EU’s role is under growing scrutiny. Spain recently pushed back against the EU’s stagnant policy inertia, calling for an end to Israel’s blockade and a return to principled action on human rights. This talk explores:
The ethics of academic boycotts: Do they promote justice, or merely serve symbolic gestures?
The EU’s foreign policy dilemmas: Can countries like Spain and Ireland lead on Palestine amid institutional deadlock?
The role of academia in contexts of war, occupation, and systemic injustice.
We’ll unpack what complicity and responsibility mean in a world of complex research collaborations, especially for those involved in programs like Horizon Europe.
🌍 Whether you’re a student, academic, activist, or simply concerned about human rights, this event offers a timely and urgent conversation.
👉 Want to attend in person? Comment in the thread to help us plan food and seating.
You’re welcome to join even without registering—we just can’t guarantee there will be enough dinner and drinks for everyone.
Schedule (CET):
18:00 – Venue opens; guests are invited to a brief social gathering upon arrival
18:23 – Doors close; no further entry permitted
18:25 – Welcome by Elliott
18:30 – Keynote address by Prof. Michelle Pace
20:00 – Q&A
20:40 – Dinner and networking
Let’s come together to rethink what ethical engagement means in today’s interconnected world.
🙏 Big thanks to our partners and participants for helping make this event possible!
