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The event is organized by the IAI, in cooperation with Mecila and the Forschungscampus Dahlem der SPK. Digital media as a tool to document, teach and communicate Indigenous cultural and linguistic heritage in the Americas, or Abiayala, has grown exponentially […]
El evento es organizado por el IAI, en cooperación con Mecila, el Goethe-Institut y el Forschungscampus Dahlem der SPK. La artista Elvira Espejo Ayca (La Paz) examina el textil de los Andes como un objeto material, teniendo en cuenta los […]
The event is organized by the IAI, in cooperation with Mecila, the Forschungscampus Dahlem der SPK, the Ethnologisches Museum (SMB) and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. The ongoing debates on the colonial backgrounds of ethnographic and art collections in European museums is […]
From Hatred of Difference to Identity Compulsion: Authoritarian Personality Today How a classic concept stemming from Critical Theory such as that of authoritarian personality can be mobilized in order to face current social contexts? This is the question addressed by Karin Stögner, […]
Social scientists failed to predict the conservative turn which culminated in Brazil with the 2018 election of a far-right president and several extreme right governors and parliamentarians. Different factors explain the analytical blindness to the conservative counterattack. First of all, […]
Vivemos em tempos cada vez mais tecnológicos, onde robôs humanoides estão ganhando espaço na vida social. Por essa razão, propomos uma discussão desde diferentes perspectivas científicas para explorar como as relações entre humanos e não-humanos se definem, até como são […]
On June 11, 2019 the Department of Iberian and Latin American History of the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne) in association with Mecila held the Workshop “Negotiating Legal Categories in Unequal Contexts – Latin America in the 16th – 19th […]
On 3 May historian João Reis, from Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia) and Mecila Senior Fellow, presented the Seminar “Ganhadores: a greve negra de 1857 na Bahia” (Ganhadores: the black strike of 1857 in Bahia). The event integrates the […]
Em 12 de abril o sociólogo Gabriel Kessler da Universidad Nacional de La Plata e Pesquisador Convidado do Mecila apresentou o seminário “Muertes que importan – uma mirada sociohistórica sobre los casos que marcaran la Argentina reciente”. O evento integrou a […]