Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2023

Thursday, 16.03
10h30 – Welcome
Welcome by the directors and getting to know Mecila’s Office 

11h30 – Keynote Lecture
“La economía popular en las calles de las ciudades latinoamericanas: el caso de la Ciudad de México”, by Carlos Alba (El Colegio de Mexico; Mecila PI)
Moderation: Tilmann Heil (Mecila PDI)

13h30 – Lunch at Cebrap

15h30 – 17h30 – Roundtable: Conviviality-inequality as a theoretical tool: conceptual reflections
Ajay Gandhi (Leiden University) | “Ecstasy and Suffering: Secular Notes on Social Eschatology”
Marcos Nobre (CEBRAP; Mecila PI) | “Conviviality and Domination”
Tilmann Heil (Mecila PDI) | “On relational trouble on a meso-level of abstraction: Eclectic provocations”
Moderation: Mariana Teixeira (Mecila PDI)

Friday, 17.03
10h30 – Arrival
11h – Distinguished Lecture
“Cuando el capital se va. Identidad, cultura y sociabilidad”, by Mirta Zaida Lobato (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Moderation: Barbara Potthast (Universität zu Köln; Mecila PI and Director)

13h – Lunch at Cebrap

14h30 – Roundtable: Mecila’s history and development
Barbara Potthast (Universität zu Köln; Mecila PI and Director)
Gloria Chicote (Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Mecila PI)
Susanne Klengel (Freie Universität Berlin; Mecila PI)
Moderation: Tomaz Amorim (Mecila Academic Manager)

16h30 – Closing remarks

At CEBRAP
Auditório Elza Berquó

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