Mecila
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Mecila
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We're an international centre for advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences, based in São Paulo.
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
We hope to accomplish that by strengthening the existing cooperation between Mecila and the other Merian Centres based in Accra, Delhi, Guadalajara, and Tunis, as well as the DFG Humanities Centre of Advanced Studies Futures of Sustainability and the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies.
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.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 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...
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 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...
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 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...
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 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...
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 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...
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 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
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🎶 Mantendo a batida: paisagens sonoras do ativismo negro
🗓️ 14/11 | sexta-feira
⏰ 19h às 21h
📍8º andar
🎟 Grátis. Retirada de ingressos no local com 30 min de antecedência.
📌 Rua 24 de Maio, 109, República, São Paulo-SP
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A atividade conta com a participação da socióloga Márcia Lima e da antropóloga Jaqueline Lima Santos, que contribuem com reflexões sobre raça, gênero, cultura e mobilização política.

A atividade é organizada pelo centro Mecila, em parceria com o Sesc 24 de Maio.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Usando a metáfora de "mantendo a batida" como um pilar para o ritmo do ativismo negro intergeracional, ela observa como o contexto do hip-hop participa dessa luta contínua pela liberdade negra.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Neste encontro, a socióloga Patricia Hill Collins discute o conceito de “paisagens sonoras” para analisar como diferentes gerações de pessoas negras utilizaram a música e o som para interpretar e atuar em seus contextos sociais.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 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.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 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
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 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.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
4 de noviembre: Seminario sobre Trabajo y Desigualdades: «Liderazgo político de las mujeres: Brasil, Senegal y México», con la participación de Emily Riley (CEAA-Colmex), Mónica Tapia (Aúna México) y la moderación de Johana Navarrete (CEDUA-Colmex). En vivo: www.youtube.com/live/oYt_Anx...
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»
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 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)
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 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)
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 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.
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
¡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...
October 16, 2025 at 12:03 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
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM