Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum 2023 in São Paulo

In 2023 the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut is the main organizer of the Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, as this responsibility rotates among the German institutions of the Mecila consortium. The Mecila Annual Meeting is the central platform of Mecila to present and discuss the main interdisciplinary research results of the Mecila community together with invited researchers. It plays an important role for the articulation of the three Mecila Research Areas.

The Young Researchers Forum has the specific objective to foster the international exchange and networking of early career researchers, addressing specific challenges and making visible their research contributions. The event is conceptually shaped by Mecila’s annual theme “Medialities”. It focusses on how asymmetries of knowledge and divergent knowledge practices and representations frame conviviality (e.g. negotiations of interclass, intercultural, interethnic, inter-gender and human-non human relations). The visit to the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE / Universidade de São Paulo) has the objective of experiencing in situ the medialities of conviviality from the perspective of knowledge management and the challenges of the information infrastructures in convivial contexts shaped by knowledge asymmetries. The public event at the Goethe-Institut São Paulo strengthens the strategic cooperation between Mecila and the Goethe Institutes but also opens other spaces of broader cultural exchanges.