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Lecture: “Democratic challenges in the context of Brazil’s neo-extractivist trap”, by Prof. Dr. Marcos Nobre (Unicamp, CEBRAP, Mecila) (1/6)
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lecture: “Democratic challenges in the context of Brazil’s neo-extractivist trap”, by Prof. Dr. Marcos Nobre (Unicamp, CEBRAP, Mecila) (1/6)
Today, we initiate the long-awaited Mecila Berlin Conference 2025!
The main objective of the conference is to present the progress made so far by Mecila, and the prospects for continuing the Centre’s research programme in Germany, and internationally.
The main objective of the conference is to present the progress made so far by Mecila, and the prospects for continuing the Centre’s research programme in Germany, and internationally.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today, we initiate the long-awaited Mecila Berlin Conference 2025!
The main objective of the conference is to present the progress made so far by Mecila, and the prospects for continuing the Centre’s research programme in Germany, and internationally.
The main objective of the conference is to present the progress made so far by Mecila, and the prospects for continuing the Centre’s research programme in Germany, and internationally.
Ya disponible en el canal de YouTube de Mecila la Distinguished Lecture "Archivos vivos: estrategias críticas para la gestión y preservación de datos desde el patrimonio cultural en Centroamérica", impartida por Christian Zamora Rodríguez (Universidad de Costa Rica). www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-jI...
Christian Z. Rodríguez - Archivos vivos: gestión y preservación de datos en Centroamérica
Christian Zamora Rodríguez (Universidad de Costa Rica): “Archivos vivos: estrategias críticas para la gestión y preservación de datos desde el patrimonio cultural en Centroamérica”
Al respecto de la…
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December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Ya disponible en el canal de YouTube de Mecila la Distinguished Lecture "Archivos vivos: estrategias críticas para la gestión y preservación de datos desde el patrimonio cultural en Centroamérica", impartida por Christian Zamora Rodríguez (Universidad de Costa Rica). www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-jI...
New Mecila Working Paper!
No. 93: “Spiritistic Mythology and Conviviality in Brazilian Epic Poetry: Goyania (1896)” by Roger Friedlein (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024).
Read the full paper (Open Access): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
No. 93: “Spiritistic Mythology and Conviviality in Brazilian Epic Poetry: Goyania (1896)” by Roger Friedlein (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024).
Read the full paper (Open Access): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New Mecila Working Paper!
No. 93: “Spiritistic Mythology and Conviviality in Brazilian Epic Poetry: Goyania (1896)” by Roger Friedlein (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024).
Read the full paper (Open Access): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
No. 93: “Spiritistic Mythology and Conviviality in Brazilian Epic Poetry: Goyania (1896)” by Roger Friedlein (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024).
Read the full paper (Open Access): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
Available on Mecila's YouTube channel: Distinguished Lecture "Life: From Slave Insurance to Convict Leasing in the antebellum US", by Michael Ralph.
Access the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswN...
Access the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswN...
Michael Roth - Life: From Slave Insurance to Convict Leasing in the antebellum US
During Mecila's 2025 Final Workshop, Michael Roth presented the lecture "Life: From Slave Insurance to Convict Leasing in the antebellum US".
Breaking with the consensus among historians that slave…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Available on Mecila's YouTube channel: Distinguished Lecture "Life: From Slave Insurance to Convict Leasing in the antebellum US", by Michael Ralph.
Access the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswN...
Access the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswN...
How do we imagine living together in societies marked by deepening inequalities, climate emergencies, political polarization, and widening North–South asymmetries?
🌍 Conference 2025 | Conviviality & Inequality in Times of Global Tensions
📅 11–13 December
🔗 Registration: mecila.net/en/mecila-be...
🌍 Conference 2025 | Conviviality & Inequality in Times of Global Tensions
📅 11–13 December
🔗 Registration: mecila.net/en/mecila-be...
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How do we imagine living together in societies marked by deepening inequalities, climate emergencies, political polarization, and widening North–South asymmetries?
🌍 Conference 2025 | Conviviality & Inequality in Times of Global Tensions
📅 11–13 December
🔗 Registration: mecila.net/en/mecila-be...
🌍 Conference 2025 | Conviviality & Inequality in Times of Global Tensions
📅 11–13 December
🔗 Registration: mecila.net/en/mecila-be...
To conclude this year's public events in São Paulo, we held the 2025 Mecila Final Workshop at CEBRAP between December 17 and 18.
For further details: mecila.net/pt/evento/fi...
For further details: mecila.net/pt/evento/fi...
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
To conclude this year's public events in São Paulo, we held the 2025 Mecila Final Workshop at CEBRAP between December 17 and 18.
For further details: mecila.net/pt/evento/fi...
For further details: mecila.net/pt/evento/fi...
El Working Paper n.º 92 ya está disponible en el sitio web de Mecila.
“Convertir a la música en un negocio. Un análisis sobre las ferias de música en América Latina en los últimos quince años”, de Ornela Boix.
Acceda al texto completo aquí: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
“Convertir a la música en un negocio. Un análisis sobre las ferias de música en América Latina en los últimos quince años”, de Ornela Boix.
Acceda al texto completo aquí: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
El Working Paper n.º 92 ya está disponible en el sitio web de Mecila.
“Convertir a la música en un negocio. Un análisis sobre las ferias de música en América Latina en los últimos quince años”, de Ornela Boix.
Acceda al texto completo aquí: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
“Convertir a la música en un negocio. Un análisis sobre las ferias de música en América Latina en los últimos quince años”, de Ornela Boix.
Acceda al texto completo aquí: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
New Mecila Working Paper #91
“Insisting on Her Rights and Other Afro-Brazilian Repertoires of Resisting Everyday Grey Racism”, by Seth Racusen (Senior Fellow, 2020).
Full text available here: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
“Insisting on Her Rights and Other Afro-Brazilian Repertoires of Resisting Everyday Grey Racism”, by Seth Racusen (Senior Fellow, 2020).
Full text available here: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New Mecila Working Paper #91
“Insisting on Her Rights and Other Afro-Brazilian Repertoires of Resisting Everyday Grey Racism”, by Seth Racusen (Senior Fellow, 2020).
Full text available here: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
“Insisting on Her Rights and Other Afro-Brazilian Repertoires of Resisting Everyday Grey Racism”, by Seth Racusen (Senior Fellow, 2020).
Full text available here: mecila.net/wp-content/u...
“Rethinking Whiteness in Latin America: New Dialogues on Race and Inequality”, by Benjamin Junge is a book review of the latest volume in the Biblioteca Mecila Clacso series.
Read the full post here: mecila.net/pt/46
Read the full post here: mecila.net/pt/46
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Rethinking Whiteness in Latin America: New Dialogues on Race and Inequality”, by Benjamin Junge is a book review of the latest volume in the Biblioteca Mecila Clacso series.
Read the full post here: mecila.net/pt/46
Read the full post here: mecila.net/pt/46
As tradições musicais afro-americanas têm papel central na história da luta pela liberdade negra nos EUA. Mais do que gêneros musicais, spirituals, blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, funk ou hip hop são expressões culturais que ajudam a compreender experiências coletivas e momentos-chave do ativismo negro.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As tradições musicais afro-americanas têm papel central na história da luta pela liberdade negra nos EUA. Mais do que gêneros musicais, spirituals, blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, funk ou hip hop são expressões culturais que ajudam a compreender experiências coletivas e momentos-chave do ativismo negro.
📣 ¡El Workshop Temático Mecila está en marcha!
Del 3-5.11, en La Plata, Argentina, investigadoras e investigadores de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa se reúnen para debatir sobre las conexiones entre memorias y migraciones en contextos de convivialidades marcadas por diferencias y desigualdades.
Del 3-5.11, en La Plata, Argentina, investigadoras e investigadores de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa se reúnen para debatir sobre las conexiones entre memorias y migraciones en contextos de convivialidades marcadas por diferencias y desigualdades.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📣 ¡El Workshop Temático Mecila está en marcha!
Del 3-5.11, en La Plata, Argentina, investigadoras e investigadores de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa se reúnen para debatir sobre las conexiones entre memorias y migraciones en contextos de convivialidades marcadas por diferencias y desigualdades.
Del 3-5.11, en La Plata, Argentina, investigadoras e investigadores de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa se reúnen para debatir sobre las conexiones entre memorias y migraciones en contextos de convivialidades marcadas por diferencias y desigualdades.
✨Ype: The Itineraries of a Tapirapé-Apyãwa Mask (1960–2023). Convivial Pacts and Relational Strategies of a Tupi-Guarani People from Central Brazil✨
🗣 Ana Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
📅 05 November 2025, 16:00-17:30 h
📍 Seminar Room 3.03, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln
🗣 Ana Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
📅 05 November 2025, 16:00-17:30 h
📍 Seminar Room 3.03, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
✨Ype: The Itineraries of a Tapirapé-Apyãwa Mask (1960–2023). Convivial Pacts and Relational Strategies of a Tupi-Guarani People from Central Brazil✨
🗣 Ana Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
📅 05 November 2025, 16:00-17:30 h
📍 Seminar Room 3.03, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln
🗣 Ana Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
📅 05 November 2025, 16:00-17:30 h
📍 Seminar Room 3.03, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln
We invite everyone to the symposium “Planetability. Relations of Health, Healing and Cohabitation”, organized by the Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Humanities and Sustainability (DAAD-USP) and Planetary Health Brazil (IEA-USP), supported by the “Planetability” (PROBRAL, CAPES-DAAD) project.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We invite everyone to the symposium “Planetability. Relations of Health, Healing and Cohabitation”, organized by the Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Humanities and Sustainability (DAAD-USP) and Planetary Health Brazil (IEA-USP), supported by the “Planetability” (PROBRAL, CAPES-DAAD) project.
Marcial Suárez (UFF/ Senior Fellow Mecila 2024) discute a questão da violência policial no Rio de Janeiro em entrevista para o quadro "Lo que faltaba" da rádio chilena Infinita.
Assitia o vídeo completo aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XU...
Assitia o vídeo completo aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XU...
Operativo letal contra el Comando Vermelho en Brasil: "A la policía se le da un premio por muertes"
Información, actualidad, análisis y entrevistas con los protagonistas de la noticia.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Marcial Suárez (UFF/ Senior Fellow Mecila 2024) discute a questão da violência policial no Rio de Janeiro em entrevista para o quadro "Lo que faltaba" da rádio chilena Infinita.
Assitia o vídeo completo aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XU...
Assitia o vídeo completo aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XU...
Nuestra Junior Fellow 2025, Livia De Souza Lima, participará en dos eventos académicos en El Colegio de México (Colmex).
3 de noviembre: Taller: «Interseccionalidad y Análisis del Discurso para Comprender la Violencia Política»
3 de noviembre: Taller: «Interseccionalidad y Análisis del Discurso para Comprender la Violencia Política»
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nuestra Junior Fellow 2025, Livia De Souza Lima, participará en dos eventos académicos en El Colegio de México (Colmex).
3 de noviembre: Taller: «Interseccionalidad y Análisis del Discurso para Comprender la Violencia Política»
3 de noviembre: Taller: «Interseccionalidad y Análisis del Discurso para Comprender la Violencia Política»
New: Mecila Working Paper Series No. 90: “Militarization as Conviviality: How Women Define and Resist Gendered Everyday Violence and Discipline in Brazil”, by Izadora Xavier do Monte (Junior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New: Mecila Working Paper Series No. 90: “Militarization as Conviviality: How Women Define and Resist Gendered Everyday Violence and Discipline in Brazil”, by Izadora Xavier do Monte (Junior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)
Working Paper No. 89 is now available on the Mecila website: “Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo: A Literary Reconfiguration of Conviviality”, by Fernando Nina (Senior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Working Paper No. 89 is now available on the Mecila website: “Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo: A Literary Reconfiguration of Conviviality”, by Fernando Nina (Senior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)
Researchers of Mecila, who are participating in the IRTG “Temporalities of Future” conference, visited the recently appointed COLMEX President, Prof. Dr Ana Covarrubias, on 24 October 2025. During the visit, they discussed Mecila’s achievements to date as well as plans for future joint activities.
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Researchers of Mecila, who are participating in the IRTG “Temporalities of Future” conference, visited the recently appointed COLMEX President, Prof. Dr Ana Covarrubias, on 24 October 2025. During the visit, they discussed Mecila’s achievements to date as well as plans for future joint activities.
Acontece nos dias 30 e 31 de outubro, na Casa Carlito Maia, a Oficina Transições Justas. (1/5)
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Acontece nos dias 30 e 31 de outubro, na Casa Carlito Maia, a Oficina Transições Justas. (1/5)
No dia 23 de outubro receberemos Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH/USP para a palestra "Reivindicações Ancestrais: Sobre liberdade, democracia, convivialidade e implicação".
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
No dia 23 de outubro receberemos Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH/USP para a palestra "Reivindicações Ancestrais: Sobre liberdade, democracia, convivialidade e implicação".
¡Llegaron los ejemplares impresos!
Ya está disponible en formato físico el libro Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonía en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912), Juan Recchia Paez (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, Volumen 6).
mecila.net/en/clacso-me...
Ya está disponible en formato físico el libro Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonía en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912), Juan Recchia Paez (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, Volumen 6).
mecila.net/en/clacso-me...
October 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
¡Llegaron los ejemplares impresos!
Ya está disponible en formato físico el libro Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonía en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912), Juan Recchia Paez (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, Volumen 6).
mecila.net/en/clacso-me...
Ya está disponible en formato físico el libro Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonía en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912), Juan Recchia Paez (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, Volumen 6).
mecila.net/en/clacso-me...
👉 No dia 23 de outubro (quinta-feira) às 19h, receberemos a filósofa e artista brasileira Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH-USP!
📅 23 de outubro
🕖 19h00
📍 Cidade Universitária - FFLCH/USP
📅 23 de outubro
🕖 19h00
📍 Cidade Universitária - FFLCH/USP
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
👉 No dia 23 de outubro (quinta-feira) às 19h, receberemos a filósofa e artista brasileira Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH-USP!
📅 23 de outubro
🕖 19h00
📍 Cidade Universitária - FFLCH/USP
📅 23 de outubro
🕖 19h00
📍 Cidade Universitária - FFLCH/USP
Podcast Dois Pontos #6: “Care, Inequalities, and Conviviality During the Pandemic”
Conversamos com Raquel Rojas (Cambridge University/ ex-postdoc Mecila), sobre os impactos da pandemia de covid-19 nas tarefas de cuidado em Berlim, Buenos Aires e Cidade do México. open.spotify.com/episode/2QKn...
Conversamos com Raquel Rojas (Cambridge University/ ex-postdoc Mecila), sobre os impactos da pandemia de covid-19 nas tarefas de cuidado em Berlim, Buenos Aires e Cidade do México. open.spotify.com/episode/2QKn...
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Podcast Dois Pontos #6: “Care, Inequalities, and Conviviality During the Pandemic”
Conversamos com Raquel Rojas (Cambridge University/ ex-postdoc Mecila), sobre os impactos da pandemia de covid-19 nas tarefas de cuidado em Berlim, Buenos Aires e Cidade do México. open.spotify.com/episode/2QKn...
Conversamos com Raquel Rojas (Cambridge University/ ex-postdoc Mecila), sobre os impactos da pandemia de covid-19 nas tarefas de cuidado em Berlim, Buenos Aires e Cidade do México. open.spotify.com/episode/2QKn...
Nuevo Working Paper Mecila n. 88: “Costurar formas de vida y convivialidad. Reflexiones sobre el trabajo de mujeres migrantes en São Paulo más allá de la informalidad”, Antonella Delmonte Allasia
Lee el working paper completo aquí (acceso abierto): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
Lee el working paper completo aquí (acceso abierto): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Nuevo Working Paper Mecila n. 88: “Costurar formas de vida y convivialidad. Reflexiones sobre el trabajo de mujeres migrantes en São Paulo más allá de la informalidad”, Antonella Delmonte Allasia
Lee el working paper completo aquí (acceso abierto): mecila.net/wp-content/u...
Lee el working paper completo aquí (acceso abierto): mecila.net/wp-content/u...