Talk: The global impact of the Far Right

The US elections have thrown into sharp relief that Far Right movements are domestic, as well as transnational and global players.

In this talk, Dr van der Tol questions how these movements are beginning to transform the world:

What is their footprint within the formation of new social imaginaries, within the development of constitutionalism, and within the context of the liberal international order? To what extent are these transformations coherent or contradictory? To what extent are interests shared between multiple national contexts? And what does it mean for the relationship between European states, the European Union, and the USA?

This event is part of the Cambridge Alumni Festival. Advance registration is required.

About the speaker

Dr Marietta van der Tol is Landecker Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her key-publications include the book Constitutional Intolerance (CUP 2025), the edited volume The Many Faces of Christianism: the 'Russian World' in Europe (Brill 2025), and “Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space” with Prof Phil Gorski in Religion, State, Society.

Marietta convenes the Political Theologies Conference Series. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she was affiliated with Sidney Sussex College, and previously held the position of Assistant Organist at Magdalene College. She is an active member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum.