maria sibylla merian centre conviviality-inequality in latin america
Joint Lecture Series Making Sense of the Post-Covid World: Continuities and Changes 26 April 2022 – 19 July 2022 Tuesdays 1:00 p.m. (Rio de Janeiro), 6:00 p.m. (Berlin and Hamburg) The pandemic has produced ambivalent consequences for social life. Intersectional […]
Lecture Series organized by GEMAS of the Luso-Brazilian Institute, University of Cologne and Mecila Ailton Krenak, Brazilian indigenous thinker and activist, says that the future is ancestral. In Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo, he argues that our time […]
Inclusion and diversity have marked the demands of social movements in the 21st century. With the concept intersectionality, inspired by feminist movements in the US, the academic field aims to understand how various interdependent conditions of oppression and inequality–class, gender, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, citizenship, migration, geography, […]
With her most important work Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium (1705), naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (Frankfurt 1647 – Amsterdam 1717) bequeathed to posterity a documentation of her extensive research on Caribbean insects and plants in the Dutch colony of Surinam […]
Martes, 30 de noviembre de 2021, de las 9 a las 14hs, horario de Argentina/Brasil. Coordinación: Ramiro Segura (UNLP), Tilmann Heil (UzK, USP) Las ciudades latinoamericanas constituyen un lugar de encuentro, interacción, intercambio, diálogo, negociación, fricción y/o conflicto entre actores […]
Diálogo III: Ambiente, desigualdades y excluiones en América Latina Martes 30 de noviembre 12.00 a 13.30 horas Argentina/Brasil Dialogan: Astrid Ulloa. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Mecila (Colombia) Federico Navarrete Linares. UNAM. Noticonquista (México) Gabriela Merlinsky. Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Ecología(s) política(s) desde el Sur/Abya-Yala. […]
This workshop is organized in the framework of the new interdisciplinary research project RePLITO (Global Repertoires of Living Together) in which researchers from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and international partners cooperate. RePLITO takes marginalized repertoires of […]
1 day in-person workshop on Friday, 12 November 2021 Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila)/ Department of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne Room 4.016, Hauptgebäude, Ground Floor, University of Cologne The Workshop aims at […]
Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum 2021 Encruzilhadas are crossroads or intersections of encounter, contact, and interplay which challenge and question, make suffer, or empower and regenerate. Conceptually grounded in subaltern epistemologies, encruzilhadas refer to encountered uncertainties, crucial moments of decision taking, […]