The 44th New Buds Salon invited Prof. Andrew Vincent at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics to give a lecture titled "The Anatomy of 'The People' in the Context of Contemporary European and American Populism" on December 8.

The talk was spearheaded by Prof. Duan Demin from Peking University and Prof. Howard Williams from Cardiff University as the first of a collaborative online lecture series hosted by Cardiff's Centre for Political Theory and PKU's Institute of Area Studies in the fields of political theory and area studies. Prof. Vincent, former dean of the Institute of European Studies at Cardiff University, is a renowned political scientist specializing in European studies and the history of political thought, and so was the perfect first speaker of the initiative's line-up. The panel consisted of the hosts, Prof. Duan and Prof. Williams; the main speaker, Prof. Vincent; and the Q&A respondent, Luis Cordeiro Rodrigues, a professor of philosophy at Hunan University.