Lecture Series: Diversity/Medialities 2025

Lecture Series: Diversity/Medialities 2025

17th March to 30th September

The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) has announced the launching of the Mecila Lecture Series for the year 2025, a thought-provoking program on conviviality and inequality in the Latin American context, which will run until September 2025. This series aims to amplify the voices of Latin American scholars and activists who analyse exclusion and inequality in Latin America from the perspective of marginalized communities.

As part of the Mecila Research Area «Medialities of Conviviality», coordinated by the IAI, this year’s lectures will explore a wide range of topics, including:

• Spatial segregation in urban areas
• Mass culture in the pre-Hispanic world
• Conviviality in art and the construction of anti-racist memory
• Literature as a tool of resistance and struggle
• Modernization and globalization of the Latin American press
• Circulation transnational circulation of popular theatre and film works

The series brings together a distinguished group of academics with extensive research experience, representing institutions such as the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, the Universidad de La Plata and the Universidad de San Martín in Argentina, and the Universidade de São Paulo and Unicamp in Brazil. Several of these researchers are fellows at prestigious institutions such as the IAI, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Conicet (Argentina) and Cebrap (Brazil).

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Online:
The lectures are free of charge and open to the public. They will take place in person at the IAI Conference Room in Berlin and will also be streamed live via Webex.

To get the access link, please visit the IAI event section.

For to see the complete program click here.

Location:
Ibero-American Institute (IAI) | Conference Room
Potsdamer Straße 37, 10785 – Berlin

Further Information:

Dr. Carlos Mauricio Nupia – Postdoctoral Investigator
BMBF-Projekt Mecila – Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America
Ibero-American Institute – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
E-Mail: nupia@iai.spk-berlin.de