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Mai 2026

May 20, 19:00 I Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Cooperation HCIAS & Karlstorkino: First movie of the series 'Blackness and Whiteness in Brazilian Cincema and Scholarship'

Open Stage I May 14, 16:00 I Karlstorbahnhof, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Community and Arts Karlstorbahnhof: HCIAS, CRC 1671, Institute of Geography and Freies Hip-Hop Institut Heidelberg: 'Heimat(en) remixed: Migration, Culture and Belonging'

May 11, 14:15 - 18:00 I Augustinergasse 7, 69117 Heidelberg

Anne Ziegler gives the talk 'Ecologies Planting Belonging Otherwise: Gender, Aquilombamento, and World-Making in Afro-Brazilian Communities' as part of the Early Career Colloquium

May 12, 2026, 14:00 – 15:30 | Bergheimer Str. 20, Seminar Room 215

Lecture by Dr. Susanne Willers, Freie Universität Berlin: 'Care, Networks and Resistance: Revisiting the Agency of Forced Migrant Families in Mexico and Colombia'

heiSKILLS Fellowship

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ecker launches teaching project on AI for open science

HCIAS Publications

New publication by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann on 'Thinking With, From and Across the Energy Transition in Barbados: Island Spatiality Between Connection and Separation'

May 5, 2026, 14:00 – 15:30 | Bergheimer Str. 20, Seminar Room 215

Lecture by Dr. Janara Nicoletti, University of Siegen: 'Structural Inequalities and Risk in Latin American Journalism'

April 2026

HCIAS Leadership

Prof. Dr. Renata Motta is the new Director and Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández the new Deputy Director of the HCIAS

HCIAS Colloquium

Join the HCIAS Colloquium, Summer Term 2026!

OSE Event I April 18, 2026

The Observatory of Spanish in Europe presents the Didactics Forum 2026 on new approaches to teaching Spanish

March 2026

Cross-institutional event I May 11, 2026, 19:00

The TRN Gender & Queer Studies co-organizes a Science Slam – registration open!

HCIAS Blog: Perspectives on Ibero-America

New blog post by HCIAS doctoral researcher Blas de la Jara Plaza on Trans Activism in Peru

New Publication

New publication by Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández on the demography of Spanish in Panama

New Publication

New Publication by Rafael Hernández Westpfahl on Critical Minerals and the Fourth Transformation in Mexico

4EU+ Research Project with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara as PI

New resarch project SOLACE investigates health inequalities in Europe

HCIAS Research

Congratulations to Ana Gómez-Pavón Durán and Celia Hernández Pérez on successfully defending their dissertations!

New HCIAS Member

A warm welcome to Pedro Alba Rodríguez, new research associate for the HCIAS-IÜD-HCLA project

Research Project at the HCIAS

New research project led by Jun.-Prof. Yaatsil Guevara González with funding from Gerda Henkel Foundation

New episode with Dr. Júlia Mascarello, former HCIAS visiting researcher: The COP30 in Brazil

February 2026

New member at the HCIAS

A warm welcome to new doctoral researcher Karla Ramos Rivas!

Research project at OSE

HCIAS Doctoral Researcher Charlotte Blattner receives “Forschungswerkstatt” funding from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation

Call for Papers, Deadline: March 2, 2026

Pablo Porten-Cheé is co-organizing the Preconference "Media and Communication in Global Latinidades” as part of the ICA Annual Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

New Publication

New Publication by Rafael Hernández Westpfahl and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann: 'Nationalizing lithium, negotiating power'

January 2026

New HCIAS Working Paper I Special Series 3: Working Papers del Observatorio del Español en Europa

Lisbeth Giménez & Ocarina Masid Blanco (University of Nebrija) on 'Transmisión y conservación del español en contextos migratorios: el caso de las familias hispanohablantes en Italia'

HCIAS student support services I Friday, January 30th

HCIAS Student and Alumni Networking event for Master’s Students and graduates

We congratulate Charlotte Blattner on the successful defense of her dissertation!

Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 I Neue Universität, Hörsaal 03

Guest Lecture by Magda dos Santos Ribeiro, UFMG: 'The unbuilt house: Amazonian ways of inhabiting and living'

January 14, 2026 - 4:00-5:30 PM | Seminarraum 215, 2.OG, Bergheimerstr. 20

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, CATS & HCTS, on 'How to read Iconic Mao - A Biography in Images'

HCIAS publication series 'Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics'

Volume 1: 'Pathologies of inequality in Latin America. Challenges and consequences' by José Antonio Alonso and Rodolfo Gutiérrez

December 2025

New member at the HCIAS

A warm welcome to Gustavo A. Islas Cadena, new doctoral researcher and SECITHI Fellow supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ecker

December 16, 2025 - 2:00-3:30 PM | Neue Uni HS 03

Lecture by HCIAS PD Dr. Fernando Nina on 'Decolonial feminism in Latin American essays: Gloria Anzaldúa, Lélia Gonzalez, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui'

December 11, 2025 - 6:15 PM CET | Hauptstraße 120, HCA Atrium

Dr. Maria Marti Castaner (University of Copenhagen): 'Global Mothers, Local Care: Maternal Health and Wellbeing across Migration Contexts' | Migration and the Americas lecture

Prof. Dr. Renata Motta is a Fellow at the Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University, Class of 2025/26

We congratulate Dr. Alba Segura Lores for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation

HCIAS Research and Publication

HCIAS launches new interdisciplinary book series published by De Gruyter Brill: 'Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics'

New Publication

Book chapter by HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ecker: 'Coalition bargaining duration'

3-5 December, 2025 | Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg

2nd HCIAS International Symposium on Ibero-American Studies

November 2025

New Publication by members of the research group OSE

“La enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera en los países del grupo de Visegrado” by Héctor Álvarez Mella, Pilar Valero & Óscar Loureda

Workshop of CRC 1671 TP B04 and B05, 20 and 21 November

Workshop 'Planetary Crisis, Home, and Justice' organized by Rosa Lehmann (HCIAS) and Ulrike Gerhard (HCA) in the framework of the CRC 1671 “Home(s)”

Roundtable on November 17th, La Rioja, Spain

'Migration and migrants in Europe and America' with Francisco Moreno-Fernández, Yaatsil Guevara, and Rodolfo Gutiérrez, member of the HCIAS scientific advisory council

New Publication by HCIAS scholar

'Remittances as moral battlegrounds: navigating the qualitative meanings of money, power, and intimacy in translocal Chinese families' by Zhenwei Wang

18.11.2025 - 2:00-3:30 PM CET | Neue Uni, HS 03

Lecture by Andreas Eichleter, ZO, on 'More than local news - the Treaty Port press of 19th century East Asia as a regional and global medium'

New member at the HCIAS

We welcome PD Dr. Fernando Nina as Substitute Professor of “Society, Culture, and Communication in Ibero-America”

HCIAS Doctoral Research Group Communication and Society in Ibero-America

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Jana Weckesser for receiving a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

05.11.2025 - 4:00 PM CET | Seminarraum 215, 2.OG, Bergheimerstr. 20

Dr. Philipp Zehmisch, SAI: 'Rethinking regions: cultural formations and circulation through and across cultural boundaries'

October 2025

New Publication by HCIAS scholars

“Anuario del Instituto Cervantes 2025” with contributions by members of the Observatory of Spanish in Europe

New member at the HCIAS

We welcome Dr. Paula Arana as postdoctoral researcher in the team of Prof. Dr. Renata Motta

Dr. Pilar Valero has been awarded a Young Fellowship from the Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University class of 2025/26

October 24, 2025 | Valencia, Spain | Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas HDH Conference

Keynote by Francisco Moreno-Fernández on 'Digital linguistics' to explore how digital tools transform research and the role of the humanities

21.10.2025 - 2:00 PM CET | Neue Uni, HS 03

Dr. Ashanté Reese, UT of Austin, USA: '“The city that sugar built”: prisons, agriculture, and the making of Southeast Texas'

New Publication

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann & Thilo Wiertz: 'Green tech’ geographies: The role of technology in contemporary frontier-making processes

New Publication

'Electoral Support for Candidates Involved in Drug Trafficking: Experimental Evidence From Peru' by Mariana Ramírez Bustamante

Subproject B05 of the CRC 1671

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann and Elena Marina Müller: research stay in Mexico

October 14, 2025 - 2:00 PM | Neue Uni, HS 3

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Klemens Laschefksi, UFMG, Brazil on 'The victim territories of CO2 neutrality for electric cars in Brazil'

New Publication by members of ComCog & OSE research groups

'Cognitive processing of anaphoric encapsulation and coreference in native Spanish speakers: an experimental approach with eye tracking'

August 2025

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Yaatsil Guevara and Postdoc Zhenwei Wang: Tandem Funding through the Margarete von Wrangell Program

New Publication

New co-authored article by an international team of colleagues from UFRO Chile, RedPE Chile, University of Liverpool, HeiGIT and HCIAS

December 3-5, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany

Extended: Call for Abstracts for the 2nd HCIAS Symposium on Ibero-American Studies

New Publication

Book chapter by HCIAS Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández: 'El español como idioma global'

New Publication by HCIAS scholar

Book chapter from HCIAS doctoral researcher Anne Ziegler: 'Embodied Space und Cuerpo-Territorio. Afro-indigener Aktivismus um Land'

July 2025

New Publication

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé et al. explore “The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx” in their latest article, published in Information, Communication & Society

New Publication

'El español en Europa. Migration und sprachliches Erbe' by Dr. Pilar Valero & Dr. Héctor Álvarez Mella in Ruperto Carola 26

New Publication

Article by researchers from the former research group Food for Justice on 'Power to the Bauer. Kampf um die Zukunft der Landwirtschaft' published in Ruperto Carola

New Publication

Article in Languages (2025, 10(7)) by members of the ComCog & OSE research groups: 'Dealing with Idioms: An Eye-Tracking Study of Cognitive Processing on L1, L2 and Heritage Speakers of Spanish'

July 23, 2025 - 4.00 PM CEST | Online

Heidelberger Brücke Latin America Edition with Maxmiller Laviola, Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Roberta Knopki, GIZ Brasil & Maximilian Jungmann, HCE, on 'Skills for Future – Green Skills'

July 24, 2025 - 6.15 PM CEST | Hauptstraße 120, HCA Atrium

Public Lecture by Noelle Brigden, Marquette University on 'Deporting Democracy. A Repression Boomerang Between the US and El Salvador'

New episode with Camilo Forero Medina, Universität Bielefeld: 'Paz cotidiana y los festivales en el conflicto colombiano'

New Publication

Prof. Dr. Renata Motta & former HCIAS research associate Maria Trombini: 'Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don't'

July 16, 2025 - 4.00 PM CEST | Psychological Institute - HS 1

Public lecture by Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame on 'Communities of Knowledge: The United States and Latin America in a Global Context (1870-1930)'

New Publication

Members of the ComCog & OSE research groups published an article on 'Discourse Construction Mechanisms' in Languages 2025, 10(8)

July 9, 2025 - 4.00 PM | Neue Uni, HS 1

Dr. Héctor Álvarez Mella, HCIAS, talks about 'Romanian return migration from Spain: Language, transnational ties, and uprooting'

July 10, 2025 - 6.00 PM | Simón-Bolivar-Saal, IAI, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Renata Motta will give a presentation on 'Food for Justice: Coalitions for Socioecological Transformation' at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin

July 8, 2025 - 12.30 PM | Hörsaal, Marsilius Kolleg, INF 130.1 & Online

Public lecture on 'Social Movements and Climate Action' by Prof. Dr. Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced co-organized by the HCIAS

Application Deadline: July 8, 2025

We are welcoming applications for a postdoctoral position at the HCIAS

June 2025

July 2, 2025 - 4.00 PM | Neue Uni, HS 01

Public lecture by William Sax, SAI on 'Area Studies and Methodology in the Anthropology of South Asia'

June 26, 2025 | 9.30 AM - 4 PM | Plöck 55

Workshop co-organized by the Leitorado Brasileiro on 'Mehrsprachigkeit als Potenzial für den Sprachenunterricht – am Beispiel des Deutschen'

New Publication by HCIAS members

Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández & doctoral researcher Jana Weckesser on 'Estratos de distanciamento léxico en español. Análisis dialectométrico'

June 25, 2025 - 4.00 PM CET | Online

Public lecture by Rosa Lehmann, HCIAS & Johannes Rehner, UC Chile on 'Just Transition - Challenges and debates from Europe and Latin America'

Visiting researcher at the HCIAS

Last week, Gisselle Benites from Cornell University visited the HCIAS and presented her research on 'Contested Mineral Ecologies'

Application deadline: July 8, 2025

We are looking for a new postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d)

Application deadline: July 1, 2025

The HCIAS is welcoming applications for the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF)

June 11, 2025 | 4 PM - 11.25 PM CET | Online

Media & Communication in Global Latinidades Preconference co-organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé

New Publication

HCIAS doctoral researcher Rafael Hernández Westpfahl & Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann: Contested mining, state selectivities, and the reform of the mining law in Mexico

June 11, 2025 - 4.00 PM | Psychological Institute - HS 1

Marianne Braig, Freie Universität Berlin: Why area studies matter for Europe - Entanglements and the diversity of liberal scripts from the perspective of Latin America

New Publication

HCIAS members Celia Hernández Pérez, Mathis Teucher & Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda: La encapsulación anafórica en clave experimental

May 2025

December 3-5, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany

Call for Abstracts open for the 2nd HCIAS Symposium on Ibero-American Studies

May 28, 2025 - 4 PM CET | Online

Heidelberger Brücke Latin America Edition with Irina Merz, HCE & Rebecca Kanter, Universidad de Chile: 'The Sustainability Journey of Universities in Chile and Germany'

May 21, 2025 - 4.00 PM CET | Neue Uni - HS 1

Prof. Dr. Rahul Mukherji, SAI Heidelberg: India's Democracy and attacks on Civil Society

May 14, 2025 - 2.00 PM - 7.00 PM CET | IÜD, Plöck 57a, KS II & Online via livestream

Dia mundial da língua portuguesa: língua e literatura em tempos incertos

New Publication by the HCIAS

'Demolingüística del español en el sureste europeo'

May 07, 2025 - 4.00 PM | Psychological Institute - HS 1

Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann, German Institute for Global and Area Studies: The Mosquitos of the Carribbean: An Ecological History of Global Politics

April 2025

April 30, 2025 - 4.00 PM | Neue Uni, HS 01

Yaatsil Guevara González: 'From Areas to Corridors: Rethinking the Americas through the Lens of Forced Migration'

New Member at the HCIAS

We welcome Zhenwei Wang as postdoctoral researcher in the team of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González

New Member at the HCIAS

A warm welcome to Blas de la Jara Plaza, new doctoral researcher supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González

April 23-24, 2025 | Online

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann presents her research at the 'Transición Energética en perspectiva Latinoamericana' webinar organized by the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

April 23, 2025 - 4.00 PM CET | Online

HCE-HCLA-HCIAS: Heidelberger Brücke Latin America Edition. Renata Motta, HCIAS, and Claudia Giacoman, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: 'Food and socioecological change'

HCIAS Visiting Scholars

We welcome two new visiting doctoral researchers: Andréia Anschau (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) & Elvira M. Morales Rodríguez (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

New post on 'Contacto lingüístico a través de las fronteras: Estados Unidos y México' by HCIAS master graduate Ileana Mireles Canales

March 2025

New episode with Dr. Ana María Mafud (Universidad de La Habana) about 'El español de Cuba'

March 14-15, 2025 | At the HCLA in Santiago, Chile

Mesa redonda & workshop of the project New Energy Spaces on the topic 'Transición Energética en América Latina'

New Publication by HCIAS Scholars

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alejandro Ecker et al.: Do voters prefer logrolling to compromise in parliamentary democracies?

HCIAS student Marla Castañeda Falcón explores the concept of Rights of Nature (RoN) in the latest HCIAS Blog entry

February 2025

New Publication by HCIAS Scholars

HCIAS Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández wrote a book chapter on 'Sociolingüística y disponibilidad del anglicismo'

New episode with Dr. Angela X. Ocampo (University of Texas at Austin) on the Latino Vote in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

New Publication by HCIAS Scholars

HCIAS Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda, Mathis Teucher, Celia Hernández, Dr. Adriana Cruz & Prof. Dr. Carlos Gelormini-Lezama: (Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: An experimental approach

New Publication by HCIAS Scholar

Book chapter by HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann & Pedro Alarcón on 'Political Economy and Energy Justice'

New HCIAS Working Paper

Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández, Dr. Héctor Álvarez & Mariel Elizondo: 'Linguistic Ideologies, Bilingualism, and Spanish as a Heritage Language in Europe'

New episode with Dr. Rodrigo Schaefer (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) on the role of digital innovations in teaching Portuguese

HCA Atrium | 06.02.2025 - 6:15 PM CET

Public lecture by Dr. Min Zhou (UCLA) on 'The Formation of Ethnic Capital' as part of the Migration and the Americas series

Observa. Documentaries from Ibero-America | 05.02.2025 - 7:00 PM

Screening of 'El tren y la península' (2023) followed by a talk about the Tren Maya in the Karlstorkino

January 2025

22.01.2025 - 4:00 PM CET | Neue Uni, HS 14

Last lecture of this semester's HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium: 'Diversity and objectivity in the migration coverage' by Natalia Messer Molina (HCIAS) and 'Patterns of peril: analysing violence against journalists in Mexico' by Luis Pesce (HCIAS)

21.01.2025 - 6 PM CET | KSII, IÜD, Plöck 57a

Screening of the movie 'Operação Angola' in the framework of the second Ciclo de Cinema em Português: Marcos Históricos, co-organized by the Leitorado Brasileiro

New HCIAS Working Paper

Manuel Faustino Cardozo Ruidiaz (Katholische Universität Eichstätt Ingolstadt): Truth Commission in Colombia and its digital strategy 2019-2022: The use of social media in peacebuilding

New Blog Post about the energy transition in Chile and the summer school on the same topic by the HCLA in Santiago de Chile

New Publication by HCIAS Scholar

HCIAS Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda together with colleagues from Heidelberg University & the Universidad de Salamanca published the article 'Generative AI: Simplifying Text for Cognitive Impairments and Non-native Speakers'

New Publication by HCIAS Scholar

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann co-authored an article on 'Bioeconomy governance in the global South: State of the art and the way forward'

Observa. Documentaries from Ibero-America | 15.01.2025 - 7.00 PM CET

Screening of 'A ilusão da abundância' (2023) followed by a talk with film director Erika González im Karlstorkino

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