Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2024

Tuesday, 02.04

10h – Welcome by authorities and directors
Martina Hackelberg (Consulado-Geral da Alemanha em São Paulo)
Sérgio Proença (Universidade de São Paulo)
Victor Callil (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento)
Peter Schulze (Mecila Director – Universität zu Köln)
Bianca Tavolari (Mecila Director – Cebrap)

11h – Keynote Lecture
José Luis de Diego (Universidad Nacional de La Plata): “Informalidad y formalidad en la relación editor autor”
Moderation:  Gabriela Pellegrino (Universidade de São Paulo)

13h – Lunch at CEBRAP

14h30 – Roundtable: Informalities in Cultural Production and Circulation in Latin America
Peter Schulze (Mecila Director – Universität zu Köln): “Performing Informality: Reconfigurations of the Aesthetic Dispositif in Afro-Brazilian Art”
Gloria Chicote (Mecila PI – Universidad Nacional de La Plata): “Literatura popular impresa: informalidades editoriales para sociedades en movimiento”
Puo-an Wu (Mecila WiMi – Freie Universität Berlin): “The Legacies of Améfrica Ladina and Abya Yala: A transoceanic philological approach to toponomías contestatarias or the geopolitical poetics of naming places”
Moderation:  Tomaz Amorim (Mecila Academic Manager)

16h30 – Coffee

16h45 – Institutional: Mecila’s history and current development
Barbara Göbel (Mecia PI – Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut): General Presentation: History and Structure
Samuel Barbosa (Mecila PI – Universidade de São Paulo): Institutions and Cooperation in Latin America
Tomaz Amorim (Mecila Academic Manager): The perks and challenges of an interdisciplinary working environment
Joaquim Toledo (Mecila Editor): Mecila’s Publishing Politics and Strategy

Wednesday, 03.04

10h00 – Arrival

10h30 – Keynote Lecture
Carlos Alba (Mecila PI – El Colegio de México): “La política en el mundo de la economía popular” [online]
Moderation: Susanne Klengel (Mecila PI – Freie Universität Berlin)

12h30 – Lunch at Cebrap

14h00 – Roundtable: Informalities at work: market, care and circulation
Raquel Rojas (Mecila PDI – Freie Universität Berlin): “Informality and Care: Rethinking a Dynamic Relationship”
André Nahoum (Universidade de São Paulo): “The politics of informality in urban marketplaces: informality as a problem and as a policy”
Jonas Medeiros (CEBRAP/Center for Critical Imagination):  “Esfera pública cultural, informalidade e crise da intermediação”
Moderation: Rúrion Melo (Mecila PI – Universidade de São Paulo)

16h – Coffee

16h30 – Mecila’s Research Areas: Differences and Entranglements
Gloria Chicote (Mecila PI – Universidad Nacional de La Plata): Medialities of Conviviality
Raquel Rojas (Mecila PDI – Freie Universität Berlin): Politics of Conviviality
Tilmann Heil (Mecila PDI – Universität zu Köln): [Hi]Stories of Conviviality
Moderation:  Samuel Barbosa (Mecila PI – Universidade de São Paulo)

18h – Closing remarks
Barbara Göbel (Mecila PI – IAI-Berlin)

Thursday, 04.04

 19h – Distinguished Lecture at Goethe Institut São Paulo

Susanne Klengel: “100 Years of Surrealism: Ted Joans’ Afrosurrealist Berlin Project”
Moderation: Fernando Baldraia (Cia das Letras)