Public Seminar Series: Fifty Years after the Coup Against Allende in Chile

Dr Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, and journalist from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and the law. She is Senior Lecturer at University of Essex Business School and Editor of Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. Dr Vergara is the author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020) and her work on corruption, populism, republicanism, and constitutional theory has been featured in leading international journals such as Philosophy & Social Criticism, the Journal of Political Philosophy, and History of Political Thought. 

Dr Tanya Harmer is an Associate Professor in International History at the London School of Economics. She is author of Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020) and Allende’s Chile and the Inter- American Cold War (2011). In 2023 she was a Visiting Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Dr Javier Sajuria is a Reader in Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His work studies the political behaviour of people and elites, with a focus on understanding the drivers of democratic backsliding and advancement. He has published extensively across comparative politics issues at journals such as Party Politics, West European Politics, Electoral Studies, Journal of Elections and Public Opinion, Revista de Ciencia Política, among others. He is also a regular columnist at the Chilean outlet La Tercera and a board member of the Chilean progressive think tank, Espacio Público.