Annie R Taber

Annie Taber is reading for an MPhil in European Politics and Society in association with St Hilda's college. Prior to coming to Oxford, she studied at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and received her BSFS (Honors) in Regional and Comparative Studies with a concentration on Western Europe and a minor in French. Her undergraduate thesis examined the constructions of the populist "people" in the manifestos of the UK Independence Party in 2016 and Front national in 2017.

Zarina Kulaeva

Zarina Kulaeva is a doctoral researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (OUC) in Barcelona, Spain. Her research, funded by a grant from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), focuses on the analysis of political regimes within the context of climate change. In addition to her research, Zarina teaches Comparative Politics at the same institution.

Is the New Catholic Integralism True or False?

In this public lecture Kevin Vallier will introduce and discuss 'Catholic integralism', drawing on the arguments of his 2023 Oxford University Press book 'All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism'. Integralism is an increasingly popular account of the right relationship between the church and state within Catholic political thought, which holds that the state should recognise and uphold the true religion. In thus rejects many of the central tenets of contemporary liberalism.

Fulbright Lecture 2024: Towards a Post-American International Order

Almost 80 years on from the end of World War II, the international liberal order is under acute stress around the world while its main supporter, the United States, turns increasingly inward. In his 2024 Fulbright Distinguished Lecture, CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria examines the dramatic shifts in geopolitics we are currently witnessing and asks: what is going to come next?

Event Details:

4.15 pm – Registration opens
4.50 pm - Auditorium doors close
5 pm – Lecture & Q&A
6.30 pm – Reception
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