A Transatlantic Conversation took place on November 5, 2025, as the third installment in the Race, Migration, and Coloniality in Europe Working Group at Yale University’s series on the rise of the Far Right in Europe, this time in partnership with the CEU’s Gender Studies Department. Moderated by Jessica N Varela (CEU) and Simona de Paoli (Yale), the event brought together Nadia Jones-Gailani (CEU), Erzsébet Barát (CEU), Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin), Claudia Breger (Columbia University), and Fatima El-Tayeb (Yale University) for a powerful discussion on academia’s role as both target and accomplice in the current global context. The panel offered transatlantic perspectives on censorship, anti-gender politics, and critical scholarship in times of crisis in a timely conversation on defending academic freedom.