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Dear readers,

we are happy to bring you our latest productions from Mecila. There's a new Working Paper in our series by Ramiro Segura, dealing with conviviality in urban contexts. We'd also like to invite you to the Open Seminar with João Reis, one of our Senior Fellows, which takes place this Friday. It's been a while since our workshop in La Plata, but you can have a glimpse of how it was in our new video. Besides that, we also bring you in this edition some recommendations of events and scholarships.

Mecila Team

In the 1^st of June, 1857, the streets of Salvador, Bahia, were not as usual. That was the first day of a strike started by black men who worked as loaders. Fighting against new forms of State control over the work of black people, such as new taxes and a new police enforcement law, these men carried out the first strike in Brazil's history which interrupted an entire branch of the urban economy. What were the conditions for it? How did the ethnical dimension of the organization work? What happened and what were the consequences of this movement, entagled with the culture of street urban labour?

Professor João Reis, a Mecila Senior Fellow and one of the most prominent specialists in the history of slavery in Brazil, will address such questions in our next joint seminar with Cebrap about his upcoming book.

You can follow our Facebook to keep track of the date: friday, May 3th, 11am at Cebrap, in São Paulo!

We have a new Working Paper #11

How does conviviality take place in cities marked by inequalities and a heterogeneous cultural environment? With the framework of urban anthropology, Ramiro Segura delves into the topic in Mecila’s new Working Paper: Convivialidad en ciudades latinoamericanas Un ensayo bibliográfico desde la antropología. The author brings to the fore the different “contexts of conviviality” of the urban space, which shape “forms of conviviality”, yet also finds what these contexts may have in common.

The full article is the #11^th publication of Mecila's Working Paper Series, and is already available on our website.

A brief view of our workshop in La Plata

The International Workshop “Conviviality in Unequal Societies: The Knowledge Dimension” organized by Mecila in cooperation with IdIHCS (Universidad de La Plata / CONICET), happened on the 28^th and 29^th November 2018 at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in Argentina. Our researchers share their views on how the event unfolded.

Open calls for research scholarships in the Merian Centre of New Delhi

The Maria Sibylla Merian Centre – R. Tagore “Metamorphoses of the political: Comparative perspectives on the long twentieth century” (ICAS:MP) from New Delhi, India, is currently receiving applications for post-Phd and senior researchers scholarships for the academic period of July 2020 – June 2021. Candidates of any nationalities are welcome. Be aware with the deadline, though: June 30th, 2019

We recommend: III International Simposium Thinking and Rethinking Latin America

The University of São Paulo will hold a huge event on Latin American research: the "III International Symposium Thinking and Rethinking Latin America".
Conferences, Roundtables, Research Seminars and also a book fair and music presentations provide a week full of activities. Check the event website out for further information and the complete schedule.

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