Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America:

The research programme framing the international fellowship programme of Mecila seeks to further insights into the processes of negotiation, legitimation, contestation, and transformation of existing hierarchies as they take place in everyday interactions and within institutions. The historical, environmental, economic, […]

Mecila e Goethe-Institut tem o prazer de anunciar o evento «Arte Para Quem? Reflexões Sobre Produção Estética e Participação Social», que faz parte da série de eventos promovidos pelo Mecila durante o seu Encontro Anual 2023. A representação nas artes […]

With the growing demand for internationalization in academic knowledge production, the well-desired cooperation between international and transnational partners, especially between institutions from the so-called Global North and South, is often challenged by asymmetrical conditions of research, publication, outreach, impact and […]

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) had and still has a high level of professional designation consumption. He was called an art historian, a father of German cultural studies, a father of modern image science, and a banker. In his Mecila Distinguished Lecture, […]

Over twenty years ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that international human rights law guarantees indigenous communities property rights to their homelands. Since then, many states in Latin America are obligated to recognize the ’special relationship’ indigenous peoples […]

Gregorio de Robles, un campesino toledano, salió de España a fines del siglo XVII como soldado con destino a La Florida. Sin embargo, durante el viaje fue liberado de sus obligaciones y se dedicó a viajar a lo largo de […]

Convidamos os interessados em participar deste espaço-oficina de troca de percepções, experiências e reflexões sobre o que tem sido migrar. Chegando a esse momento atual e que será o ponto de partida para a criação de uma instalação de arte […]

Studying the Amazon is a life’s mission; accordingly, in 4 hours we will only raise three questions that are currently discussed scientifically and politically: What does it mean to be a region approximating a global climate tipping point? & How […]

El sistema académico mundial ha sido caracterizado como una estructura desigual de producción y circulación del conocimiento, cuyo componente principal es un circuito mainstream de revistas científicas que ha contribuido a instalar al paper (en inglés) como producto científico por […]

La historia de la fotografía en América Latina se caracteriza por una compleja trama cultural tejida por grupos, revistas, instituciones y exposiciones con una fuerte participación cruzada de fotógrafos, fotógrafas y especialistas. Uno de los casos más relevantes lo constituye […]