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Reclaiming Heritage: The Role of German Ethnologists and Collections for Brazilian Indigenous Memory and Rights

Roberta Hesse

The Global Convivial Forum blog is a platform available to our scholars to publish research-based contributions dedicated to a wide audience.

We regularly publish interviews, short essays, reports on events, op-eds, and excerpts from upcoming working papers.

Edited by Joaquim Toledo Jr. and Melanie Metzen. 
Intern: Marina Belisario.

 

 

 

 

 

Lições do Zócalo

Samuel Barbosa

26.06.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

What about Women’s Legal History?: Gendered and Intersectional Perspectives on the Legal Historical Field

Aline Correa​

07.06.24

 

 

 

 

 

The Perks and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary,
Multilingual, and Multicultural Academic Environment

Tomaz Amorim

17.05.24

 

 

 

 

 

Territórios em trânsito: a música africana nas mediações transnacionais do pertencer

Caio da Silva Fernandes

30.04.24

 

 

 

 

 

Política, Religião e Filmes: Conversando com Frei Betto e Evanize Martins Sydow (II)

Sérgio Costa

26.04.24

 

 

 

 

 

Política, Religião e Filmes: Conversando com Frei Betto e Evanize Martins Sydow (1)

Sérgio Costa

24.04.24

 

 

 

 



Mecila Civil Society Workshop 2024 in Berlin: Together at last?

Katrin Schlotter

23.02.24

 

 

 

 

 

1st Mecila Alumni Symposium: Bridging Knowledge and Fostering Collaboration

Raquel Rojas

05.12.23

 

 

 

 

 

Uma visita ao Museu das Culturas Indígenas de São Paulo

Flávia Meireles, Berit Callsen,
Mariana Simoni
11.07.23

Mecila Fellows 2022

 

 

 

 

 


The Tip of Mecila’s Iceberg: Collective Testimonial

Mecila Fellows 2022
06.04.23


 

 

 

 

 

From South-South Epistemologies to the Reflection on South-East Relations: putting on a decolonial lens

Joanna M. Moszczynska
15.02.23

 

 

 

 

 

Memória, silenciamento, apagamento e identidade na escrita de Lúcia Hiratsuka e Rafaela Kawasaki

Simone Toji
                             06.01.23                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pensar la escuela desde la Convivialidad

Osvaldo Barreneche
                            12.12.22                                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

A Short History of Aquariums: Scientific Curiosity, Aesthethic Delight and Conviviality​

Ana Carolina Torquato
08.12.22

 

 

 

 

 

“É aquilo que eu vejo, aquilo que eu sinto”: convivialidad en la obra de J. Borges ​

Juan Recchia y Camila de Oro
25.10.22

 

 

 

 

 

La Constituición y los dilemas de la convivialidad en un Chile desigual

Daniela V. Mattar
21.10.22

 

 

 




“We Must Push Back Against Authoritarian Legalism”

William E. Scheuerman

26.09.22








 

Explorando los nexos entre lo que nos une y lo que nos separa

Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO
06.09.22

 

 

 

 



“Cachorros mortos”: Biopolitics of Human-Animal Conviviality

Jörg Dünne
19.08.22

 

 

 

 

 

Postmemory: The Holocaust and its Effects on the Lives of Brazilian Jewry

Joanna M. Moszczynska
01.08.22

 

 

 

 

 

Postcolonial Resistance and Ecofeminism

Madalina Stefan

02.03.22

 

 

 

 

 

My Research Experience with Mecila

Léa Tosold

04.12.21

 

 

 

 

 

Transformação urbana em disputa

Bianca Tavolari

20.11.21

 

 

 

 

 

The Politics of Respiration

Ajay Gandhi and Maria José de Abreu

03.11.21

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontality in the 2010s

Yves Cohen

20.10.21

 
 

 

 



Literature supply in a transnational research network

Christoph Müller
08.10.21

 

 

 

 

 

Gauchos in Hollywood: Exoticization and Globalization of Criollismo in the 1920s

Nicolás Suárez
10.09.21

 

 

 




History and Fiction Living Together in Bolaño’s Narratives​

Jorge Estrada

20.08.21

 

 

 



 

Southern Theories in Circulation: Towards a Convivial Canon​

Clara Ruvituso

06.08.21

 
 
 
 
 
 
La constitución de la multicultura en el espacio urbano: El juguete rabioso de Roberto Arlt

Gloria Chicote

21.07.21

 
 
 
 
 
 
¿‘Distancia de rescate’ en tiempos de distanciamiento social? Sobre la novela de Samantha Schweblin (2014)

Susanne Klengel

08.07.21

 
 
 
 
 
 

The Quilombo as Practice and Strategy

Juliana Streva

02.07.21







 
Latin America within the rainbow-collection edition Suhrkamp: Dependency and Liberation (1968-1980)

Clara Ruvituso

24.06.21

 
 






Politics of Conviviality​

Research Area Politics of Conviviality

10.06.21

 
 
 
 



Medialities of Conviviality

Research Area Medialities of Conviviality

05.05.21

 
 



 
 
[Hi]Stories of Conviviality

Research Area [Hi]Stories of Conviviality

20.04.21

 
 

 

 

 
 
Conviviality-Inequality:
A New Horizon for Interdisciplinary Work

Marcos Nobre and Sérgio Costa

01.04.21