Wissenstransfer HCIAS Öffentliche Vorträge und Veranstaltungen

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Sommersemester 2026

Di, 28. Apr 2026, 16:00 Uhr

U.S. Economic Challenges Ahead of the 2026 Midterms

Welf Werner, Heidelberg Center for American Studies HCA, Heidelberg University

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Di, 5. Mai 2026, 16:00 Uhr

Structural Inequalities and Risk in Latin American Journalism

Janara Nicoletti, Universität Siegen

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Di, 12. Mai 2026, 16:00 Uhr

Care, Networks and Resistance: Revisiting the Agency of Forced Migrant Families in Mexico and Colombia

Susanne Willers, Freie Universität Berlin

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Do, 14. Mai 2026, 18:00 Uhr

Heimat(en) remixed: Migration, Kultur und Zugehörigkeit

Karlstorbahnhof I Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Di, 19. Mai 2026, 20:15 Uhr

When the State Becomes the Threat: Acting Politically Amid Rising Authoritarianism in Central America

Dr. Julienne Weegles, University of Amsterdam

HCA Atrium | Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais Hauptstraße 120

Mi, 20. Mai 2026, 21:00 Uhr

Digital Futures Past: Computers and the Making of New Temporalities in Latin America, 1960s–1980s

Debora Gerstenberger, Universität zu Köln

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Di, 30. Jun 2026, 16:00 Uhr

Rejecting Gifts from the Moving Mountain and Other Entrepreneurship Stories from the San Luis Valley of Colorado (USA) / Radio Gardening with quilombola horticultures: an investigacción-acción of natureculture relationships

Anthony Meluso / Monaí de Paula Antunes

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Mi, 1. Jul 2026, 22:00 Uhr

Marte Um | Mars One (2022)

directed by Gabriel Martins

Karlstorkino I Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Di, 7. Jul 2026, 16:00 Uhr

Protest and the Struggle for Democracy in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 2011–2020s

Priscila D. Carvalho, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Bergheimer Str. 20 Seminarraum 215

Do, 9. Jul 2026, 20:15 Uhr

“Is It Because We Are Negroes?”: Haitian Refugees, Racialized Detention, and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rico

Dr. Fabio Santos, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

HCA Atrium | Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais Hauptstraße 120

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Wintersemester 2025-2026

Di, 14. Okt 2025, 16:00 Uhr

The victim territories of CO2 neutrality for electric cars in Brazil

Klemens Laschefski, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Neue Uni | HS 03

Di, 21. Okt 2025, 16:00 Uhr

“The city that sugar built”: prisons, agriculture, and the making of Southeast Texas

Ashanté Reese, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Neue Universität | HS03

Mi, 22. Okt 2025, 20:00 Uhr

Offentlicher Vortrag: Frauen in Führungspositionen, Netzwerke und Wandel

Cristina Xavier de Brito

Plöck 57a | KS II / Online

Mi, 5. Nov 2025, 12:30 Uhr

El hidrógeno de bajas emisiones y la descarbonización industrial en las economías latinoamericanas: Reconfiguración de los espacios energéticos, marcos de gobernanza y aceptación social en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay

Carina Guzowski, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

HCIAS Meeting Room

Mi, 5. Nov 2025, 17:00 Uhr

Rethinking regions: cultural formations and circulation through and across cultural boundaries

Philipp Zehmisch, South Asia Institute SAI, Heidelberg University

Seminar room 215, 2. OG | The Research Center for Environmental Economics

Di, 18. Nov 2025, 15:00 Uhr

More than local news – the treaty port press of 19th century East Asia as a regional and global medium

Andreas Eichleter, Center for East Asia Studies, Heidelberg University

Neue Uni | HS 03

Do, 11. Dez 2025, 19:15 Uhr

Global Mothers, Local Care: Maternal Health and Wellbeing across Migration Contexts

Dr. Maria Marti Castaner, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Department of Public Health

HCA Atrium | Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais Hauptstraße 120

Di, 16. Dez 2025, 15:00 Uhr

Decolonial feminism in Latin American essays: Gloria Anzaldúa, Lélia Gonzalez, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Fernando Nina, Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies HCIAS, Heidelberg University

Neue Universität | HS03

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Sommersemester 2025

Mi, 23. Apr 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Food and socioecological change

Renata Motta, HCIAS & Claudia Giacoman, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Online

Mi, 30. Apr 2025, 18:00 Uhr

From Areas to Corridors: Rethinking the Americas through the Lens of Forced Migration

Yaatsil Guevara González, HCIAS

Neue Uni | HS 01

Mi, 7. Mai 2025, 18:00 Uhr

The mosquitoes of the Caribbean: An ecological history of global politics

Bert Hoffmann, German Institute for Global and Area Studies

Psychologisches Institut | HS 1

Mi, 14. Mai 2025, 16:00 Uhr

Dia da Língua Portuguesa: língua e literatura em tempos incertos

Mit zahlreichen Vortragenden

Plöck 57a | KS II / Online

Mi, 21. Mai 2025, 18:00 Uhr

India’s Democracy and attacks on Civil Society

Rahul Mukherji, SAI

Neue Uni | HS 01

Mi, 11. Jun 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Why area studies matter for Europe - Entanglements and the diversity of liberal scripts from the perspective of Latin America

Marianne Braig (Freie Universität Berlin)

Psychologisches Institut | HS 1

Mi, 25. Jun 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Just Transition – Challenges and debates from Europe and Latin America

Rosa Lehmann, HCIAS & Johannes Rehner, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Online

Do, 26. Jun 2025, 11:30 Uhr

Workshop „Mehrsprachigkeit als Potenzial für den Sprachenunterricht – am Beispiel des Deutschen“

Dr. Sebastian Franz, Dr. Angelica Prediger, Dr. Madjid Nezhad Masum & Dr. Marília Pinheiro Pereira

Plöck 55 - Raum 105

Mi, 2. Jul 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Area Studies and Methodology in the Anthropology of South Asia

William Sax, SAI

Neue Uni | HS 01

Do, 3. Jul 2025, 20:15 Uhr

Food as Infrastructure: Homemaking Practices Among (Transit) Migrants Across the Americas

Yaatsil Guevara González, HCIAS

HCA Atrium

Mi, 9. Jul 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Romanian return migration from Spain: Language, transnational ties, and uprooting

Héctor Álvarez Mella, HCIAS

Neue Uni | HS 01

Mi, 16. Jul 2025, 18:00 Uhr

Communities of Knowledge: The United States and Latin America in a Global Context (1870-1930)

Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame

Psychologisches Institut | HS 1

Do, 24. Jul 2025, 20:15 Uhr

Deporting Democracy: A Repression Boomerang Between the US and El Salvador

Noelle Brigden, Marquette University

HCA Atrium

Wissenstransfer HCIAS Öffentliche Vorträge und Veranstaltungen

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Sommersemester 2026

U.S. Economic Challenges Ahead of the 2026 Midterms

Structural Inequalities and Risk in Latin American Journalism

Care, Networks and Resistance: Revisiting the Agency of Forced Migrant Families in Mexico and Colombia

Heimat(en) remixed: Migration, Kultur und Zugehörigkeit

When the State Becomes the Threat: Acting Politically Amid Rising Authoritarianism in Central America

A negação do Brasil | Denying Brazil (2000)

Solar Capitalism: Land, Minerals and Labor in the Global Energy Transition

Que horas ela volta? | The second mother (2015)

Welttag der Portugiesischen Sprache. Potenzial und Herausforderungen

Digital Futures Past: Computers and the Making of New Temporalities in Latin America, 1960s–1980s

Rejecting Gifts from the Moving Mountain and Other Entrepreneurship Stories from the San Luis Valley of Colorado (USA) / Radio Gardening with quilombola horticultures: an investigacción-acción of natureculture relationships

Marte Um | Mars One (2022)

Protest and the Struggle for Democracy in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 2011–2020s

“Is It Because We Are Negroes?”: Haitian Refugees, Racialized Detention, and Anticolonialism in Puerto Rico

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Wintersemester 2025-2026

The victim territories of CO2 neutrality for electric cars in Brazil

“The city that sugar built”: prisons, agriculture, and the making of Southeast Texas

Offentlicher Vortrag: Frauen in Führungspositionen, Netzwerke und Wandel

El hidrógeno de bajas emisiones y la descarbonización industrial en las economías latinoamericanas: Reconfiguración de los espacios energéticos, marcos de gobernanza y aceptación social en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay

Rethinking regions: cultural formations and circulation through and across cultural boundaries

More than local news – the treaty port press of 19th century East Asia as a regional and global medium

Global Mothers, Local Care: Maternal Health and Wellbeing across Migration Contexts

Decolonial feminism in Latin American essays: Gloria Anzaldúa, Lélia Gonzalez, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Vergangene Veranstaltungen - Sommersemester 2025

Food and socioecological change

From Areas to Corridors: Rethinking the Americas through the Lens of Forced Migration

The mosquitoes of the Caribbean: An ecological history of global politics

Dia da Língua Portuguesa: língua e literatura em tempos incertos

India’s Democracy and attacks on Civil Society

Why area studies matter for Europe - Entanglements and the diversity of liberal scripts from the perspective of Latin America

Just Transition – Challenges and debates from Europe and Latin America

Workshop „Mehrsprachigkeit als Potenzial für den Sprachenunterricht – am Beispiel des Deutschen“

Area Studies and Methodology in the Anthropology of South Asia

Food as Infrastructure: Homemaking Practices Among (Transit) Migrants Across the Americas

Romanian return migration from Spain: Language, transnational ties, and uprooting

Communities of Knowledge: The United States and Latin America in a Global Context (1870-1930)

Deporting Democracy: A Repression Boomerang Between the US and El Salvador