HCIAS in the Media

October 2021

More Ecuadorians leaving for US amid ‘burst in migration’

Soledad Álvarez Velasco on the current migratory movements from Ecuador to the US. In: Al Jazeera Media Network. October 2021

August 2021

Fireside Chat organized by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)

Francisco Moreno-Fernández (HCIAS) and the director of the Ibero-American General Secretariat, Rebeca Grynspan, discuss U.S. relations with Latin America. August 2021

Freundessprache - Feindessprache

Die sozialen Dynamiken von Sprachen / Lengua amiga - Lengua enemiga. Las dinámicas sociales de las lenguas. Francisco Moreno-Fernández in Heidelberg University's research magazine Ruperto Carola, issue 17 "Freund und Feind". August 2021

Francisco Moreno Fernández presents the current status of the PRESEEA project during the XIX Congress of ALFAL (Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina).

Within the framework of the PRESEEA network, which the HCIAS joined in 2020 as a reference center, comparative sociolinguistic studies are being carried out based on the world’s largest corpus of spoken Spanish language, which is representative of Spanish speaking spaces and their geographical and social varieties. In the 2021 ALFAL session, the current developments as well as immediate and future objectives of this macroproject were discussed. August 2021

June 2021

Óscar Loureda on how Eugenio Coseriu influenced his academic career and thinking

Interview (in Spanish) in the framework of the conference “Coseriu's linguistics - origin and actuality” at the University of Zurich. June 2021

April 2021

New Book Series on the Demolinguistics of the Spanish Language Across Europe

The first volume on Spanish in Germany published and presented online. The book series is a joint project under the coordination of the HCIAS, University of Zurich, and the Instituto Cervantes. Read more at Nova Ciencia (in Spanish). April 2021

Lenguas, Democracia y Convivencia

Francisco Moreno-Fernández with Óscar Loureda on the political consequences of living together in a multilingual society. Op-Ed for El Mundo. April 2021

Español para todos los público

Olga Ivanova (Centro Internacional del Español, Universidad de Salamanca) inverviews Óscar Loureda about the cognitive and social dimensions of communication, language and its speakers (in Spanish). April 2021

Las vacunas rescatan a los hispanos

Francisco Moreno-Fernández on the access to vaccinations and its social consequences for the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Article for Diálogo Atlántico. April 2021

Events with Unspecified Dates

The Influence of the Spanish Language in the Construction of Identities

Francisco Moreno-Fernández presents  within the ongoing debate about racism and the use of language for ideological-political purposes.

Language as a Mirror of Society

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presents Humboldt Professor Francisco Moreno-Fernández in a film portrait.

Coronavirus and its Consequences for Language

Article by Francisco Moreno-Fernández in the Spanish newspaper ABC.