Pierre du Bois Visiting Professor in Contemporary Latin American History

This lecture is organised by the Graduate Institute and the Pierre du Bois Foundation for Current History

Forty years ago this year, the Chilean military under the command of General Augusto Pinochet aborted an experiment, led by President Salvador Allende, aimed at building socialism through non-violent means.  Both this experiment and the subsequent military dictatorship elicited world-wide attention, in one case because it defied well-established revolutionary doctrine, in the other because it served as a showcase for neoliberal reforms which later spread out all around the globe. In this sense, a small peripheral country became the stage on which some of the late 20th-century major political challenges were played out, or at least rehearsed. Visiting Professor Julio Pinto Vallejos will provide historical insights into these events in this public lecture.
 

Professor Pinto has taught for thirty years at the History Department of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, in the fields of 19th and 20th Century Latin America. He also has conducted courses on Chilean and World Contemporary Historiography, and on the uses of Social Theory in historical work. Professor Pinto is currently working on the social dimensions of state‐ and nation‐building in postindependence Chile, with special emphasis on the interaction between elites and subaltern groups. As a result of this research, Professor Pinto co‐authored a book with Verónica Valdivia titled "¿Chilenos todos? La construcción social de la nación, 1810‐1840"; and directed a collective work titled "El orden y la plebe. La construcción social del Estado en Chile y Argentina, 1829‐1852". This last book does comparative research on the regimes led by Diego Portales in Chile and Juan Manuel de Rosas in Argentina.

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