Lectures & Events

Conference talks and invited lectures, plus academic events and workshops I have organized.

Conference Lectures & Invited Talks

2025

"Estallido Social and the Radicalization of Right-Wing Political Elites in Chile"

2nd HCIAS International Symposium, Universität Heidelberg · 3 December 2025

"Estallido Social and the Radicalization of Right-Wing Political Elites in Chile"

Workshop: The Far Right between Institutions and Civil Society Research, WZB Berlin Social Science Center · 24 October 2025

"Positionalities of Elitist Complicity"

Workshop: Methodological Approaches to Studying Emotions and Social Movements — Affective Societies, Freie Universität Berlin · 25–26 June 2025

"Elites' Radicalization Narratives: A Discursive Analysis of the Chilean Far Right after the Estallido Social"

Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Queen Mary University of London · 9–10 June 2025

2024

"Political Discourse and Emotionality: Authoritarian Neoliberalism in the Backlash Politics of the Chilean Far-Right"

Workshop: Conditions of Success for the Far-Right — Weizenbaum Institut · 29 November 2024

"Authoritarian Neoliberalism in the Discursive Rearticulation of the Chilean Far-Right"

16th Conference of the European Sociological Association — Tensions, Trust and Transformation, Porto, Portugal · 27–30 August 2024

"Authoritarian Neoliberalism in the Discursive Rearticulation of the Chilean Far-Right"

Workshop: Democratic Conviviality under Threat — Intersectional Conflicts and the Far-Right Upsurge in Latin America and Europe, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin · 29 June 2024

"Authoritarian Neoliberalism in the Discursive Rearticulation of the Chilean Far-Right"

Workshop: The Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism — Ten Years On, King’s College London · 18 June 2024

"El neoliberalismo autoritario en la rearticulación discursiva de la derecha chilena post Estallido Social"

Latin American Sociological Association (LASA) Conference — Reacción y Resistencia: Imaginar Futuros Posibles en las Américas, Bogotá, Colombia · 12–15 June 2024

"The Elitist Complicity: Logics of Power Interviewing the Chilean Far Right"

4th Workshop Contemporary Research on Far-Right Politics, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society · 26 April 2024

"The Neoliberal-Conservative Alliance and Strategies for Adaptation of the Right in Times of Crisis in the Constitutional Convention of Chile (2021–2022)"

World Economic Association Conference — Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 80 Years Later, Online · 27 March 2024

2023

"The Church, the Secret Society, and the Political Struggle: Disaffiliations in Contemporary Catholicism (with Timo Koch)"

Gender & Religious Exit Symposium, Coventry University, UK · 28 November 2023

"Cracks in the Neoliberal Consensus and New Social Divisions: Analysis of the Emergence and Positioning of the Extreme Right in Chile"

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Symposium — Representation: Politics and Beyond, Santiago, Chile · 28 September 2023

"Mecanismos autoritarios del neoliberalismo: sobre la implementación y vigencia de la hegemonía del neoliberalismo en América Latina"

Etapas del capitalismo: del liberalismo a la globalización, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile · 13–14 September 2023

"Authoritarian Mechanisms of Neoliberalism: On the Implementation and Validity of the Hegemony of Neoliberalism in Latin America"

World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association (ISA), Melbourne, Australia · 25 June – 1 July 2023

"Cracks in the Neoliberal Consensus and New Social Divisions: Analysis of the Emergence and Positioning of the Far Right in Chile"

Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) mid-term workshop, University of Naples "L’Orientale" · 8–10 June 2023

"Authoritarian Mechanisms of Neoliberalism: On the Implementation and Validity of the Hegemony of Neoliberalism in Latin America"

Latin American Studies Association Conference — Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos, Vancouver · 24–27 May 2023

"Cracks in the Neoliberal Consensus and New Social Divisions: Analysis of the Emergence and Positioning of the Far-Right in Chile"

Global Political Economy Research Event, University of Manchester · 23 March 2023

"Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America"

Lecture for students of the Master of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK · 13–14 March 2023

Event Organization

2025

The Right Against Rights Network — Seminar Series

Seminars by Dr. Julián Castro-Rea (23 January), Dr. Lisa Zanotti (30 May), and Dr. Michael Minkenberg (17 October).

2025

Workshop: "The Right Against Rights — Far Right and Anti-Gender Social Movements in Latin America"

With the lecture “Why Anti-Abortion Movements Fail: The Case of Chile” by Dr. Simón Escoffier.

Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin · 30 January 2025

2023–2025

Contemporary Research on Far-Right Politics Berlin

Creation and participation in the Berlin researcher-based network for studying the far-right phenomenon.

2023–2025

2023

Workshop on Contemporary Research on Gender and Far Right

Co-organized with Ana Makhashvili.

Affective Societies and Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin · 17 November 2023

2022

High Politics, Low Politics: On the Social Logic of (Anti)Populism

Lecture by Dr. Pierre Ostiguy.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · 8 December 2022