Academic symposium and student workshop in the Heidelberg Center Latin America. Santiago de Chile, 25-26 October 2022.

HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann and colleagues from the Alfred Bergsträsser Institute of the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies are organizing a workshop on “Transnational dimensions of energy transitions: Politics and inequalities in and beyond Latin America and West Asia-North Africa (WANA)” at FRIAS, Freiburg, Germany, June 2-3, 2022. The registration for the hybrid workshop is closed, but the public lecture on Thursday, June 2nd is open to everyone and available via live-stream!

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the teaching project “Communication and Society in Ibero-America - CS@Ibero-America” as part of their current program "International Virtual Academic Collaboration IVAC". This project is based at HCIAS and the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA) at Heidelberg University. International project partners are the Universidad de Chile (Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Facultad de Letras).

Within the framework of this project, researchers and lecturers from the four participating institutions are developing blended learning courses around the topic of “Intercultural Communication Management” for students of the participating national and international master's programs. This will promote blended mobility as a new mobility pattern and further expand the curricular offerings of these study programs

In their paper “Linguistic Analysis of the Newspaper Discourse in Brazil: The Older People and COVID-19”, Thaís Dias de Castilho Ehrler and Sybille Große analyse whether the older people are associated with the COVID-19 virus in a particular form and whether they are exposed to specific discrimination as a population group. Their analysis shows how Brazilian media describe older adults as being vulnerable and belonging to the risk group.

The new contribution by Ariam Macias Herrera and Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University) “Mapping Military Roles in COVID-19 Responses in Latin America – Contours, Causes and Consequences” kicks off this special series on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ibero-America. The paper offers quantitative and descriptive analyses on military engagement in containing the disease and provides some hints at possible drivers of militarized COVID-19 governance and its short-term impact on democratic governance.

Rosa Lehmann has been invited to the Käte Hamburger Kolleg CAPAS lecture series “Apocalypse now, then and when?” On Tuesday, January 25th at 6:30 PM CET, she talked about “Challenges of the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy: Socio-Ecological Inequalities and the Energy Transition in Latin America”

Multi-day informational event for postdocs from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Online workshop on 30 Nov. and individual matchmaking on 2 & 3 Dec, 2021.

Project Presentation by Óscar Loureda within the framework of the international colloquium "Convergencias y divergencias en el espacio iberoamericano", June 15-17, 2021, University of Bucarest.

The Centro de Estudos Galegos (CEG) at the HCIAS has started a collaborative academic project with the newly founded Galicia Center of the University of Vienna to further develop activities in teaching, research, transfer of knowledge and dissemination of the Galician language and culture.