Wintersemester 2025-2026 Kursangebot in Ibero-Amerika Studien für BA-Studierende der Universität Heidelberg
Seminar: Latino migration in the U.S.: Culture, language and identity
Over the last decades, Latin-American and Caribbean migration to the U.S. has not only significantly increased (one out of every five U.S. residents is Latino) but has diversified both in its origins and in its demographic, social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural composition. After briefly presenting the demographics of the Latin-American and Caribbean migration to the U.S. and its evolution since 1970, we will discuss the ongoing dynamics of the Latino communities in the country. The aim of the course is to provide conceptual and methodological tools to explore in an interdisciplinary way the new spaces of Latin-American migration and its heterogeneities; the processes of identity and hybridization; the (digital) media of the Latino diaspora and its representations; the dynamics of cultural expressions and consumption; and the linguistic practices, with special attention to intergenerational dynamics. The course will combine theoretical discussion with case studies such as the politics of labeling Latino communities, the new latinidades and their representation in Netflix and YouTube, and the rise of new forms of delocalized Spanish.
Seminar: Dekolonialer Feminismus (Dozierender: N.N.)
Ziel des Seminars ist es, wichtige Esssays lateinamerikanischer Kultur- und Dekolonialisierungstheorien von Frauen (Anzaldá, Rivera Cusicanqui, Sarlo, Segato, Walsh, Wynter, Ribeiro u.a.) zu lesen, um die wichtigsten Beiträge dieses Genres zur lateinamerikanischen Kulturtheorie zu untersuchen.
Seminar: Gender and Politics
This course introduces students to the main theoretical concepts and the major empirical research questions in the area of Gender and Politics. It addresses fundamental questions in Comparative Politics from the perspective of gender differences and confronts students with important questions of causal inference in empirical-analytical research. Based on selected recent contributions students examine 1) questions of descriptive and substantive representation (e.g., in political institutions such as parties, national and sub-national legislatures). Students also learn 2) about political participation and explore the causes and consequences of gender gaps in individual voting behavior. Other key aspects that are discussed in the seminar include 3) policy-making and 4) gender dynamics in judicial decision-making. Throughout the course, students are introduced to the relevant data sources of gender and politics, providing them with plenty of opportunities to conduct their own preliminary analyses and develop first ideas for their term paper.
Seminar: Food and Migration: Ethnographien des Essens in Migrationsgesellschaften in der Rhein-Neckar-Region
Dieses Geländepraktikum richtet sich an Studierende der Geographie, die sich für ethnographische Zugänge zu Ernährung, Migration, Identität und Home-Making-Praktiken interessieren. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie Essen im Kontext von Migration zu einem zentralen Element alltäglicher Aushandlungsprozesse von Zugehörigkeit und sozialem Raum wird. Gemeinsam erkunden wir den Rhein-Neckar-Kreis als ethnographisches Forschungsfeld und untersuchen, wie migrantische Communities durch kulinarische Praktiken Formen des „home-making“ gestalten, kulturelle Identitäten pflegen und neue soziale Räume erschaffen.
Die Studierenden erlernen grundlegende ethnographische Methoden (teilnehmende Beobachtung, qualitative Interviews, visuelle Dokumentation) und wenden sie in eigenständigen Mini-Feldforschungsprojekten an. Ziel des Praktikums ist es, ein kritisches Verständnis der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mobilität, Essen und Raum zu entwickeln – und die Rolle kulinarischer Praktiken im Kontext von Migration sichtbar und verstehbar zu machen.