Revueltas populares en América Latina abrieron potentes horizontes de transformación social, pero también dio lugar a restauraciones conservadoras y nuevas disputas por la memoria, la democracia y los derechos humanos.
Conferencia con Isabel Piper miércoles, 4 de marzo
🔗 buff.ly/VaQJgdd
We recently concluded an intensive three-day international symposium at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin, bringing together experts to discuss the vital role of information infrastructures, Open Science, and digital sovereignty.
We thank all the participants for the profound insights!
🌎📚 How Does the Prof. Guillermo Obiols Library Support Research Across Latin America? The Prof. Guillermo Obiols Library at UNLP supports teaching, research, and outreach with 120,000+ books, 3,700 journals, and 65,000 digital resources.
🤝 Discover more: mecila.net/en/52
🌎📖 Unlocking Brazil’s Intellectual Heritage
The Library of the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB/USP) in São Paulo houses one of Brazil’s richest collections of personal archives, rare books, and historical documents.
🤝 Discover more: mecila.net/en/51
🌎📖 How can knowledge bring researchers together across continents?
🤝 Discover how the Biblioteca de El Colegio de México connects people, collections, and knowledge across borders: mecila.net/en/50
Artist Talk: The work of Nuno Ramos
On 14 January, Mecila and REBRAC hosted a conversation with Nuno Ramos and Peter Schulze (University of Cologne). The event was moderated by Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds), Mecila Fellow 2025.
Full talk available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6t...
🌎📚 Discover the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) in Berlin: mecila.net/en/49
📅 This February (18–20), the IAI will host the Mecila Institutional Workshop, bringing together researchers, librarians, and coordinators from across Latin America and Europe to advance the Mecila Information Infrastructure.
📢 Conferencia con Isabel Piper (Universidad de Chile / Investigadora Visitante IAI)
📅 Miércoles, 4 de marzo de 2026
📍 Presencial: Instituto Ibero-Americano (Berlín)
💻 Transmisión online (abierta al público)
🔗 Más información: www.iai.spk-berlin.de/es/eventos/c...
📷 Foto: Isabel Piper.
Working Paper No. 95, “Zonas de contacto y fricción: Convivialidad y desigualdad en el tránsito moderno según Ezequiel Martínez Estrada,” by Wolfram Nitsch.
Full paper here: mecila.net/en/working-p...
Apresentação do livro "Canudos: guerra y archivo. Jagunçada y povofonia en la conformación de la literatura brasileña (1893–1912)", de Juan Recchia Paez (Mecila / UNLP / CONICET).
10 de fevereiro - 13h30 | Apresentação do livro
Com Paulo Augusto Franco de Alcântara (ESPM/SP)
A new post is now available on Mecila’s blog.
Written by Antonella Delmonte Allasia, former Mecila fellow, this post reflects on Jeffrey Lesser’s latest publication"Living and Dying in São Paulo" (2025).
Read the full post here: mecila.net/es/48
We’re excited to announce our latest volume of the Mecila-Clacso series, “Violencias y cuidados Aproximaciones a una relación ambivalente“, edited by Raquel Rojas, Marcial A. Garcia Suarez and Izadora Xavier do Monte.
More information here: mecila.net/es/clacso-me...
🌎📚 This year, between 18–20 February we will strengthen the infrastructure and highlight it as a living, evolving space for transcontinental collaboration, at the Mecila Institutional Workshop in Berlin. More about this topic here: buff.ly/LIwuh5z
Mecila e REBRAC convidam para um bate-papo com Nuno Ramos - artista, escritor e intelectual público, em conversa com Prof. Peter Schulze - Universität zu Köln (Alemanha) e Principal Investigator Mecila.
🔗 Para receber o link de acesso: 📩 s.dennison@leeds.ac.uk
Novo episódio do podcast Dois Pontos (Ep. 7): "Saúde, migração e o SUS: desafios e caminhos", com Eugenia Brage.
📻 open.spotify.com/episode/5dZG...
Nuevo working paper: "Construir, habitar y escribir", por Nicolás Suárez.
mecila.net/pt/pt-pt-wor...
👉 Disponibilizamos em nosso canal do YouTube a gravação completa da palestra “Mantendo a batida: Paisagens sonoras do ativismo negro” da Prof. Dr. Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland, Estados Unidos), com legendas em português.
📺 Assista ao vídeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETd...
Lecture in English followed by discussion.
15.12.2025 | 14:00-16:00 (CEST)
Freie Universität Berlin – ZI Latin American Institute: Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, Room 201, 14197 Berlin
Further details: www.lai.fu-berlin.de/termine_lai/... (6/6)
For this book, he received Brazil’s most prestigious book award – the Prêmio Jabuti – in 2023 for best book of the year in Social Sciences. (5/6)
Marcos Nobre is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the Unicamp and author of “Limits of Democracy: From the June 2013 Uprisings in Brazil to the Bolsonaro Government” (2022, Cham: Springer). (4/6)
By questioning some limited uses of the concept of the "trap", this approach requires restoring the centrality of dependency and the climate emergency, considering the neo-extractivist trap as a multidimensional phenomenon. (3/6)
The presentation intends to offer a particular interpretation of neoextractivism, seeking to show how it might help us understand Brazil’s recent history – and perhaps not only Brazil’s. (2/6)
Lecture: “Democratic challenges in the context of Brazil’s neo-extractivist trap”, by Prof. Dr. Marcos Nobre (Unicamp, CEBRAP, Mecila) (1/6)
– to reflect on the Centres’ role in fostering innovative formats of academic internationalisation, as well as promoting the internationalization of the humanities and social sciences, and contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of societal transformations and planetary changes.
The highlight of the day is the roundtable “Overcoming North-South Academic Asymmetries: Diagnosis and Responses”, which brought together representatives of the five Maria Sibylla Merian Centres for Advanced Studies – funded by the BMFTR
We hope to accomplish that by strengthening the existing cooperation between Mecila and the other Merian Centres based in Accra, Delhi, Guadalajara, and Tunis, as well as the DFG Humanities Centre of Advanced Studies Futures of Sustainability and the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies.
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...
