Lecture: “Democratic challenges in the context of Brazil’s neo-extractivist trap”, by Prof. Dr. Marcos Nobre (Unicamp, CEBRAP, Mecila) (1/6)

Today, we initiate the long-awaited Mecila Berlin Conference 2025! The main objective of the conference is to present the progress made so far by Mecila, and the prospects for continuing the Centre’s research programme in Germany, and internationally.

Ya disponible en el canal de YouTube de Mecila la Distinguished Lecture "Archivos vivos: estrategias críticas para la gestión y preservación de datos desde el patrimonio cultural en Centroamérica", impartida por Christian Zamora Rodríguez (Universidad de Costa Rica). www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-jI...

New Mecila Working Paper! No. 93: “Spiritistic Mythology and Conviviality in Brazilian Epic Poetry: Goyania (1896)” by Roger Friedlein (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024). Read the full paper (Open Access): mecila.net/wp-content/u...

Available on Mecila's YouTube channel: Distinguished Lecture "Life: From Slave Insurance to Convict Leasing in the antebellum US", by Michael Ralph. Access the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswN...

How do we imagine living together in societies marked by deepening inequalities, climate emergencies, political polarization, and widening North–South asymmetries? 🌍 Conference 2025 | Conviviality & Inequality in Times of Global Tensions 📅 11–13 December 🔗 Registration: mecila.net/en/mecila-be...

To conclude this year's public events in São Paulo, we held the 2025 Mecila Final Workshop at CEBRAP between December 17 and 18. For further details: mecila.net/pt/evento/fi...

El Working Paper n.º 92 ya está disponible en el sitio web de Mecila.  “Convertir a la música en un negocio. Un análisis sobre las ferias de música en América Latina en los últimos quince años”, de Ornela Boix. Acceda al texto completo aquí: mecila.net/wp-content/u...

New Mecila Working Paper #91 “Insisting on Her Rights and Other Afro-Brazilian Repertoires of Resisting Everyday Grey Racism”, by Seth Racusen (Senior Fellow, 2020). Full text available here: mecila.net/wp-content/u...

 “Rethinking Whiteness in Latin America: New Dialogues on Race and Inequality”, by Benjamin Junge is a book review of the latest volume in the Biblioteca Mecila Clacso series. Read the full post here: mecila.net/pt/46

As tradições musicais afro-americanas têm papel central na história da luta pela liberdade negra nos EUA. Mais do que gêneros musicais, spirituals, blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, funk ou hip hop são expressões culturais que ajudam a compreender experiências coletivas e momentos-chave do ativismo negro.

📣 ¡El Workshop Temático Mecila está en marcha! Del 3-5.11, en La Plata, Argentina, investigadoras e investigadores de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa se reúnen para debatir sobre las conexiones entre memorias y migraciones en contextos de convivialidades marcadas por diferencias y desigualdades.

✨Ype: The Itineraries of a Tapirapé-Apyãwa Mask (1960–2023). Convivial Pacts and Relational Strategies of a Tupi-Guarani People from Central Brazil✨ 🗣 Ana Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 📅 05 November 2025, 16:00-17:30 h 📍 Seminar Room 3.03, Classen-Kappelmannstr. 24, 50931 Köln

We invite everyone to the symposium “Planetability. Relations of Health, Healing and Cohabitation”, organized by the Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Humanities and Sustainability (DAAD-USP) and Planetary Health Brazil (IEA-USP), supported by the “Planetability” (PROBRAL, CAPES-DAAD) project.

Marcial Suárez (UFF/ Senior Fellow Mecila 2024) discute a questão da violência policial no Rio de Janeiro em entrevista para o quadro "Lo que faltaba" da rádio chilena Infinita. Assitia o vídeo completo aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8XU...

Nuestra Junior Fellow 2025, Livia De Souza Lima, participará en dos eventos académicos en El Colegio de México (Colmex). 3 de noviembre: Taller: «Interseccionalidad y Análisis del Discurso para Comprender la Violencia Política»

New: Mecila Working Paper Series No. 90: “Militarization as Conviviality: How Women Define and Resist Gendered Everyday Violence and Discipline in Brazil”, by Izadora Xavier do Monte (Junior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)

Working Paper No. 89 is now available on the Mecila website: “Escrevivência by Conceição Evaristo: A Literary Reconfiguration of Conviviality”, by Fernando Nina (Senior Fellow, 2024). (1/3)

Researchers of Mecila, who are participating in the IRTG “Temporalities of Future” conference, visited the recently appointed COLMEX President, Prof. Dr Ana Covarrubias, on 24 October 2025. During the visit, they discussed Mecila’s achievements to date as well as plans for future joint activities.

Acontece nos dias 30 e 31 de outubro, na Casa Carlito Maia, a Oficina Transições Justas. (1/5)

No dia 23 de outubro receberemos Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH/USP para a palestra "Reivindicações Ancestrais: Sobre liberdade, democracia, convivialidade e implicação".

¡Llegaron los ejemplares impresos! Ya está disponible en formato físico el libro Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonía en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912), Juan Recchia Paez (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO, Volumen 6). mecila.net/en/clacso-me...

👉 No dia 23 de outubro (quinta-feira) às 19h, receberemos a filósofa e artista brasileira Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) na FFLCH-USP! 📅 23 de outubro 🕖 19h00 📍 Cidade Universitária - FFLCH/USP

Podcast Dois Pontos #6: “Care, Inequalities, and Conviviality During the Pandemic” Conversamos com Raquel Rojas (Cambridge University/ ex-postdoc Mecila), sobre os impactos da pandemia de covid-19 nas tarefas de cuidado em Berlim, Buenos Aires e Cidade do México. open.spotify.com/episode/2QKn...

Nuevo Working Paper Mecila n. 88: “Costurar formas de vida y convivialidad. Reflexiones sobre el trabajo de mujeres migrantes en São Paulo más allá de la informalidad”, Antonella Delmonte Allasia Lee el working paper completo aquí (acceso abierto): mecila.net/wp-content/u...

Plataformização e o trabalho no México – 15 de outubro Os pesquisadores Carlos Alba (El Colegio de México/Mecila) e Álvaro Comin (CCI/Cebrap) discutem como o avanço dos aplicativos de transporte e entrega vem transformando o mundo do trabalho, as relações econômicas e o cotidiano das pessoas.

MECAM hosts “Re-thinking Peace and Conflict Studies in a Postcolonial World”, where Mecila Fellow Izadora Xavier presents “Women’s Resistance in Brazil and Militarization.” During “Knowledge Diplomacy and South–South–North Cooperation”, Sérgio Costa and Tomaz Amorim also join the discussion.

La conferencia de María Ana Masera Cerutti (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Investigadora Visitante IAI) se centrará en el análisis de los cancioneros publicados entre las décadas de 1930 y 1950.

Julia Roth, Professor of American Studies with a focus on Gender Studies at Bielefeld University, will explore how the concept of gender is being instrumentalised and how attacks on gender rights have become a common strategy in right-wing political discourses across different regions.

The Mecila Annual Meeting & Young Researchers Forum 2025 came to a close this Thursday, under the theme “Relational Approaches to Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America.” 🌻 We warmly thank all participants and the IEB for their generous hospitality!

🏙️ Ontem o Mecila foi recebido calorosamente na Ocupação 9 de Julho, território de luta por moradia digna em São Paulo, com um almoço delicioso e um dia de atividades. Márcia Araújo, assistente social e militante do Movimento Sem-Teto do Centro (MTSC), nos guiou por uma visita pelos diversos espaços.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Amazon region was viewed as a peripheral area within the context of ancient South American history. This perspective has underpinned public policies based on the premise that this vast region was always sparsely populated due to environmental limitations. (1/4)

This afternoon, an evaluation committee unanimously and enthusiastically recommended the continuation of Mecila for the period 2026-2029. The committee highlighted the significance of its academic results and the vast collaborative network it has fostered between academia and civil society.

Nesta palestra, Fernanda Rosa irá discutir como as desigualdades presentes no desenho da infraestrutura da internet e os valores incorporados no código definem a forma como as informações sobre o Sul Global circulam online. (1/5)

📢 Temos a satisfação de anunciar a realização de um evento especial do Mecila na Ocupação 9 de Julho, território importante da luta por moradia em São Paulo. 📅 Data: 10.09.2025 (Quarta-feira) 📍 Local: Ocupação 9 de Julho 🔗 Para mais detalhes: mecila.net/pt/evento/me...

Mecila Annual Meeting & Young Researchers Forum 2025 are near! This year´s themes examine relationalities shaped by different forms of intersectional inequality, interdependencies between humans, non-humans and artefacts, as well as entanglements encompassing politics, morality and culture. (1/2)

On 5th September, invited commentators will conduct a critical appraisal of books by Mecila members published in 2025. This event brings together the Mecila community in São Paulo: PIs, AIs, PDIs, members of the Executive and Advisory Board, as well as current Fellows. Books to be presented: (1/5)

O Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem da Unicamp receberá a diretora do Mecila Susanne Klengel (Freie Universität Berlin) para a conferência "As colagens surrealista-cosmológicas de Jorge de Lima" amanhã, dia 29, às 16h.

[en] Marco Teixeira is our 2025 Urban Narratives Fellow! He holds a PhD in Sociology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. His work addresses urgent socio-environmental and economic challenges, with a particular focus on inequalities and climate justice. (1/2)

Marco Teixeira é nosso Urban Narratives Fellow de 2025. Ele é doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Seu trabalho enfrenta desafios socioambientais e econômicos urgentes, com ênfase na redução das desigualdades e justiça climática. (1/2)

En el marco de la X Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), celebrada el 10 de junio de 2025 en Bogotá, Colombia, Mecila organizó un foro de un día. (1/3)

We’re thrilled to announce the Mecila Annual Meeting & Young Researchers Forum 2025, in São Paulo from 8 to 11 September! This year’s theme centers on interdependent convivial configurations: intersectional inequalities, human–non-human relations, and political, moral, and cultural entanglements.

Stephanie Dennison é uma das nossas Senior Fellows 2025! Bem-vinda! Professora de Estudos Brasileiros na Universidade de Leeds, ela é especialista em cultura brasileira e cinema mundial. (1/2)

Stephanie Dennison is joining our group of Senior Fellows 2025. Welcome! She is a professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds, specialising in Brazilian culture and world cinema. (1/2)

Em “Desigualdades econômicas em perspectiva histórica: Notas sobre a teoria dos tempos históricos”, Alain El Youssef (Junior Fellow Mecila 2024) revisita as principais interpretações desde a II Guerra Mundial e propõe novas ferramentas analíticas para pensar a história de forma não linear. (1/2)

🎞️ In this video, Stephanie Dennison (Mecila Senior Fellow 2025) explores an exhibition of photographs taken by Jose Medeiros of the Teatro Experimental do Negro (Black Experimental Theatre group). Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNRO... (1/3)

Mirian Alves Souza é uma das nossas Senior Fellows em 2025! Ela é doutora em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal Fluminense, onde atua como Professora no Departamento de Antropologia e pesquisadora no Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Oriente Médio (NEOM/UFF). 🌱 Bem-vinda, Mirian!

[en] Mirian Alves Souza is one of our Senior Fellows in 2025! She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Fluminense Federal University, where she serves as a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and as a researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (NEOM/UFF). 🌱 Welcome, Mirian!

Novo post no blog do Mecila! Como parte da programação de atividades de 2025, a visita de campo da vez se deu no Museu das Favelas, localizado no Centro Histórico de São Paulo. Leia na íntegra: mecila.net/pt/43 (1/2)

Working Paper No. 85 is now available on the Mecila website. The paper by Marcial A. G. Suarez (Mecila Senior Fellow, 2024) introduces hybrid governance as a framework to understand how state, society, and violent non-state actors interact in contexts of extreme violence. (1/2)