Events - Mecila

Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2025: Relationalities

Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2025 – Relationalities São Paulo, CEBRAP, 8-9 April 2025 Mecila is a joint project of the following German and Latin American research institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (coordination); Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin); Universität zu Köln (Cologne); Universidade de […]

17 Mar

The Situational Impact of Inequalities on Urban Public Space: Diversity/Medialities | Public Lectures Mecila-IAI

The Situational Impact of Inequalities on Urban Public Space: Lessons from Homeless Women in Covid-19 São Paulo [Lecture Series “Diversity/Medialities”] How do intersectional inequalities impact on the physical-material and social setting of urban public space? Based on the extraordinary increase […]

13 Mar

Pontos de Virada ontológicos: emergência climática e pós-verdade: Colóquio Paradoxos da Emancipação

Nas últimas três décadas, diversos campos das humanidades — como filosofia, antropologia, Estudos de Ciência e Tecnologia e teoria política — experimentaram uma mudança simultânea de questões epistemológicas para questões ontológicas. Essas mudanças, que inicialmente ocorreram de forma relativamente independente, […]

11 Dec

Aesthetics of Extractivism in Latin America: when marked bodies talk: Workshop

Place: Auerbach Institut, Cologne, Germany Date: 11.12.24, 14h-16h30 Organization: Dr. Tomaz Amorim (Mecila/Universidade de São Paulo), ISAP Guest in Cologne Latin America is a region historically characterized by the violence of Colonialism and Extractivism on its territories and their human […]

11 Dec

Julia Chambi, la primera fotógrafa andina-peruana. Una investigación y exposición sobre sus diapositivas color: Diversity/Medialities | Public Lectures Mecila-IAI

[Lecture Series “Diversity/Medialities”] Julia Chambi es considerada la primera mujer fotógrafa peruana de ascendencia quechua. Nacida en 1919 en Sicuani, Perú, hija del reconocido fotógrafo Martín Chambi, construyó su propia carrera como fotógrafa de estudio, capturando asimismo fiestas y paisajes […]

03 Dec

Underground Relations: Extractivism and Modernism in Brazilian Literature: GSSC Seminar Series

Tomaz Amorim (Mecila, São Paulo, Brazil) 12:00-13:00 This lecture explores the intersection of extractivism and modernism in early 20th-century Brazilian literature, emphasizing how extractivism shapes the country’s cultural and aesthetic landscape. It argues that extractivism is not merely an economic […]

03 Dec

Pre-Jornadas: XII Jornadas de Sociología de la UNLP

El Departamento de Sociología de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata realizará durante los días 4, 5 y 6 de diciembre de 2024 sus XII Jornadas de Sociología de la […]

26 Nov

Mecila’s Final Workshop 2024: Outlooks

Mecila’s Final Workshop 2024: Outlooks 26-27.11.24 At CEBRAP – Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento Auditório Elza Berquó São Paulo, Brazil The second part of the Final Workshop, titled “Outlooks,” aims to conclude the Center’s activities with the 2024 Senior […]

11 Nov

Mania Metabolica. On Currencies, Edible and not: Keynote lecture

Keynote lecture – Mania Metabolica. On Currencies, Edible and not Prof. Karin Harrasser (University of Arts Linz) Comments: Dr. Fernando Nina (Mecila Senior Fellow 2024) 11 november – 16h Auditório Elza Berquó | Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento Rua […]

14 Oct

Care that Matters, Matters of Care: Overcoming Inequalities through Care Policies: International Symposium

Mecila Final Workshop Mecila/DWIH T20 side Event International Symposium “Care that Matters, Matters of Care: Overcoming Inequalities through Care Policies” São Paulo, 14-15 October 2024 Brazil has assumed the presidency of the G20 in 2024 and will host government representatives from […]