Democratic challenges in the context of Brazil’s neo-extractivist trap:

Our Co-speaker and Principal Investigator, Prof. Dr. Marcos Nobre, talked about the current political situation in Brazil, in the face of the upcoming presidential elections. The lecture “Brasil 2018: Crise, eleições e opções da esquerda” was held in Portuguese on 12 June 2018 at […]

On June 18th, students and scholars discussed processes of establishing coexistence with/about difference (conviviality) in Brazil from different disciplinary perspectives: literature and culture, social sciences and history. The three panels focused on topics such as colonialism, slavery, migration and the […]

On March 15th 2018, Mecila celebrated the inauguration of its activities at COLMEX, Mexico City, with the participation of the COLMEX presidency as well as of German authorities in Mexico. The introductory panel addressed both the historical debates on conviviality as […]

The lecture given by Thomas Vesting and Ricardo Campos of the University of Frankfurt addressed the Transformation of the State and Fundamental Rights in modern society. The event was held at the Faculdade de Direito da USP | November 1, […]

On September 4th, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America was presented in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). On the inauguration act, the director of the Centro Científico Tecnológico CCT CONICET La Plata Pilar […]

The inaugural conference of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America aimed to present and discuss the Centre’s research perspective on conviviality in unequal societies in Latin America and the Caribbean with consortium partners, scholars, representatives of research […]

On April 3rd 2017, the Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America was formally launched at a ceremony held in the Office of the Rector of the Universidade de São […]