On the 9th of March, Professor Juergen Barkhoff, Vice Provost of Trinity College will launch the Centre and introduce a keynote lecture from Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat of New York University, entitled ‘How to Resist a Strongman: Lessons from a Century of Authoritarian Rule.’ Professor Ben-Ghiat is the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, the first study to place Donald Trump in the context of a century of authoritarian leaders.