Conceptually grounded in Mecila’s key analytical framework conviviality-inequality, the Annual Meeting 2026 brings together ongoing debates on convivial regimes in Latin America between the global and the planetary. The contributions address how changing forms of sociability, knowledge production, political participation, labour and ecological entanglements affect the ways differences and inequalities are articulated and governed. Particular attention is paid to the ambivalences of these transformations: while new technologies, practices and forms of mobilization may open spaces for participation, recognition and epistemic pluralization, they also generate new asymmetries, exclusions and concentrations of power. In this context, reflections on Indigenous and Afrodiasporic perspectives and practices—as well as feminist and ecological forms of knowledge—can serve as examples of relational modes of living together grounded in long-standing engagements with territory, care and collective life. These perspectives challenge dominant assumptions about social organization, responsibility and coexistence, without being reducible to normative models or ready-made solutions.

Building on Mecila’s inter- and transdisciplinary orientation, the Annual Meeting encourages empirically grounded and theoretically informed analyses that engage with diverse social actors, knowledge practices and materialities. Contributions explore how inequalities intersect with race, gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity, as well as with human/non-human and more-than-human relations, foregrounding the plurality of social experiences and epistemic positions from which conviviality is enacted, contested, and reimagined.

At a moment when the limits of established social, political and ecological configurations are becoming increasingly visible at a global and a planetary level, revisiting the conviviality-inequality nexus is both analytically productive and politically pressing. The Annual Meeting aims to foster dialogue across disciplines, regions and epistemologies in order to better understand how regimes of conviviality are changing, what conflicts and possibilities emerge from these shifts and how more just and sustainable forms of living together might be imagined and enacted.

Location
>>> 01 and 02 September: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros – Universidade de São Paulo (Auditório)
>>> 03 September: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento

Registrations
Please click here to register. Due to limited seating in the auditorium, we kindly ask you to register early, as spots will close once capacity is reached.