HCIAS Publication Series
Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics
Published by De Gruyter Brill
Editors: Francisco Jesús Moreno-Fernández and Óscar Loureda Lamas
eISSN: 2941-3842, ISSN: 2941-3834
The series Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics provides a scholarly platform for the publication of rigorous and innovative research addressing the contemporary conditions of Ibero-American societies and cultures. It covers a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, and studies of natural and cultural heritage. By publishing both monographs and edited volumes, the series encourages intellectual exchange across methodological and thematic boundaries. Reflecting the diversity and complexity of Ibero-America within a global academic framework, it aims to advance comparative inquiry and contribute to a deeper understanding of the region’s evolving dynamics in an interconnected world.
Latest volume:
Volume 2. Artivist sonorities. Liminal listening in Ibero-American Experimental Music and Sound Arts. Authors: Isaac Diego García, Daniel Moro Vallina, Montserrat Palacios
The second volume of the Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics Series explores the multifaceted and heterogeneous field of experimental music and sound arts in the contemporary Ibero-American context. To this end, the study is structured around the notion of sound artivism as a plural space of creative—critical and situated—practices that bind the aesthetic dimension closely to the social, the political, and the epistemic. The authors propose the idea of liminal listening, in which what matters is not so much sound as an object but rather listening as an aesthetic and political act in its own right. Positioned within the “Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics” series, the book provides an exploration of the artistic work of numerous creators and collectives from Spain and Latin America, in which sound and listening function as forms of knowledge, resistance, and protest.
About the authors: Isaac Diego García is a composer, sound artist, musicologist and Professor at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. His research focuses on experimental music and sound art, graphic music, and other interdisciplinary artistic expressions. Daniel Moro Vallina is a musicologist and pianist currently teaching at the department of Art History and Musicology of the Universidad de Oviedo. His focus within research is contemporary Spanish and Latin American music. Montserrat Palacios is an ethnomusicologist with a PhD in History and Sciences of Music from the Universidad de Valladolid. As an experimental artist she combines vocal performance with improvisation and object use.
Forthcoming:
Volume 3. Understanding the Spanish Language in Europe. Current Migration and Educational Trends. Editors: Óscar Loureda, Rodolfo Gutiérrez, José Luis García Delgado, and Pilar Valero Fernández
Handbooks of Ibero-American Studies
Published by De Gruyter Brill
Editors: Francisco Jesús Moreno-Fernández and Óscar Loureda Lamas
eISSN: 2941-3826, ISSN: 2941-3818
The Handbooks of Ibero-American Studies constitute a systematic and comprehensive reference work within the interdisciplinary field of Ibero-American Studies. They address overarching themes and structural dynamics that define the Ibero-American macro-region, encompassing Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula as its core, as well as areas connected through enduring historical, cultural, political, and socioeconomic linkages. Each volume assembles contributions from leading international scholars that synthesize major developments in the field, critically assess the current state of research, and delineate trajectories for future scholarly advancement. Collectively, the series functions both as a repository of consolidated knowledge and as a catalyst for sustained academic dialogue across disciplinary and regional boundaries.
Forthcoming
Volume 1. Handbook of Borders in Ibero-America. Authors: Beatriz Zepeda, Sergio Peña Medina
Volume 2. Handbook of Communication, Media and Digital technologies in Ibero-America. Authors: Lionel Ricardo Brossi, Sandra Cortesi, Leanne Alexandra Hasse
Volume 3. Handbook of Ibero-American Sociolinguistics. Authors: Rocío Caravedo, Anna Maria Escobar, Pedro Martín Brutragueño, Francisco Moreno-Fernández
Demolingüística del español en Europa
Published by Instituto Cervantes
Editors: HCIAS, Óscar Loureda Lamas and Francisco Moreno-Fernández; University of Zurich, Johannes Kabatek; Instituto Cervantes
Demolingüística del español en Europa publishes the output of the international collaborative research project El español en Europa. This project analyses the linguistic and cultural geography of Spanish and its speakers with a specific focus on the dynamics of migration, demography, and education. The book series, a collaboration between HCIAS, University of Zurich, and Instituto Cervantes, will include thirteen volumes covering the demography of the Spanish language in all European regions.
Latest volume:
Volume 8. 2026. Demolingüística del español en Estonia, Letonia y Lituania. Author(s): Ana León-Manzanero, Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría, Pilar Valero Fernández, and Óscar Loureda Lamas.
Forthcoming:
Volume 9. Demolingüística del español en los países rusófonos
Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana RILI
RILI is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which is co-edited by Iberoamericana / Vervuert publishing house, the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, the University of Zurich, and the HCIAS. It publishes studies on Ibero-Romance languages inside and outside the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. It also features articles about languages in contact with them, in particular, the African, Amerindian, Asian, and Austronesian languages, and the creole languages arising from the contact with Portuguese and Spanish.
Latest issue:
Volume XXIV. No. 47. June 2026. Thematic section: Recent Developments in the Study of Colloquial Language: Across the Atlantic. Coordinator: Shima Salameh Jiménez (Universitat Politècnica de València)
