HCIAS News and Events

November 2024

October 2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

New specific agreement of collaboration in the framework of master and doctoral studies signed between the HCIAS and the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internationales of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico

December 2023

November 2023

July 2023

Roundtable discussion on The European Union's Challenges During the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU with José Luis García Delgado (Observatorio Nebrija del Español) & Rodolfo Gutiérrez Palacios (University of Oviedo)

June 2023

Public Lecture by Carles Tebé on De la variación terminológica a la normalización: un proyecto de transferencia sobre conservación-restauración de bienes patrimoniales chilenos in Neue Uni, Room 05

Talk by Michael Janoschka, Professor at the KIT/Institute of Regional Science, Karlsruhe, on “Biopolitics of Finance: Silent or violent transitions of urban space?” in Room 07, Neue Uni

May 2023

March 2023

February 2023

June 2022

Hybrid Workshop on Transnational Dimensions of Energy Transitions

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!

April 2022

CS@Ibero-America - International Virtual Academic Collaboration, funded by the DAAD

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

Pandemic Religion in Brazil - socio-political perceptions and public theological reflections

Guest speaker Rudolf von Sinner, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil
May 3, 2022, 4:15 PM CET, ehem. Senatsaal of the Neue Uni of Heidelberg University or online here.
Presentation held within the framework of the HCIAS Master's Program Lecture Series.

The Center for Galician Studies (CEG) is offering courses on Galician language and culture in the summer semester 2022!

For more information, please consult the CEG website. For advice on course selection and registration, don’t hesitate to e-mail to ceg@uni-heidelberg.de!

“El Español en Europa: lengua internacional y lengua migratoria”

With José Luis García Delgado (Universidad de Nebrija), Rodolfo Gutiérrez Palacios (Universidad de Oviedo) and Francisco Moreno-Fernández (HCIAS)
Moderator: Héctor Álvarez Mella (HCIAS)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:30 PM
Konferenzsaal II, Institute for Translation and Interpreting, Plöck 57a, 69117 Heidelberg

Panel Discussion: “El Español en Europa: lengua internacional y lengua migratoria”

With José Luis García Delgado (Universidad de Nebrija), Rodolfo Gutiérrez Palacios (Universidad de Oviedo) and Francisco Moreno-Fernández (HCIAS)
Chair: Héctor Álvarez Mella (HCIAS)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:30 PM
Konferenzsaal II, Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Plöck 57a, 69117 Heidelberg

March 2022

New HCIAS Working Paper in the Special Series on the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ibero-America

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.

New HCIAS Working Paper

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.

February 2022

Guest Lecture by Jun.-Prof. Rosa Lehmann

Guest lecture by Jun.-Prof. Rosa Lehmann in the master's seminar “Migration across the Americas” by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Soldedad Álvarez Velasco: Climate Change, Extractivism and the Multiplication of Displacement across the Americas

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Alcides Velásquez

Guest lecture: Understanding social media political expression and participation among minority immigrant groups. Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Alcides Velásquez (University of Kansas, Lawrence, US)

During his presentation he will discuss a proposed theoretical model to explain political expression on social media and political participation among members of the Latinx population in the U.S., using concepts from media and communication studies theories.

January 2022

Lecture by HCIAS Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann

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”

New PhD scholarship recipient at the HCIAS

Funded by the DAAD, Ana Gómez-Pavón's dissertation examines Spanish as a heritage language in Germany. Her research explores the social and familial dynamics that favor the transmission of Spanish from generation to generation. This work thus contributes to the research project on the demography of the Spanish-speaking community in Europe at the HCIAS. Ana Gómez-Pavón's PhD project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda and Prof. Dr. Mercedes Quilis Merín (Universidad de Valencia, Spain) within the framework of a DAAD research grant.

December 2021

Dr. Olga Ivanova (Universidad de Salamanca)

Dr. Olga Ivanova (Universidad de Salamanca) will conduct her project “Discourse particles and ageing: discourse processing and pragmatic competence in senescence” at the HCIAS from Dec. 2021 to Jan. 2022. The research stay is funded by the DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists 2021 program.

International Virtual Academic Collaboration: “Communication and Society in Ibero-America – CS@Ibero-America", supported by the DAAD

The goal of this project is to support the advantageous usage of digital media in order to expand the possibilities for collaborative work between university partners and further together develop sustainable formats supporting future-oriented teaching. The HCIAS is partnered on this project with the Universidad de Chile and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, which are drawing upon structures set in place by the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA) in Santiago de Chile, an excellence center for the promotion of cooperative projects. CS@Ibero-America is developing collaborative learning formats for international students which are complemented by Blended Mobility, a new model for mobility. The knowledge gained by teachers and students alike will be saved to and further developed on a hybrid exchange platform according to Community of Practice standards.

November 2021

Guest lecture from Prof. Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University, Evanston, US)

“Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty” As part of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé's master's seminar “Communication and public spheres in Ibero-America”

Postdoc in Germany: Cono Sur 2021

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.

October 2021

Between coyotes, chulqueros, pasadores, traficantes and la migra

Presentation by  Jun.-Prof. Dr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco on who exerts control across the Andean Region-Central America-Mexico-U.S. extended migratory corridor. Workshop De/Legitimizing Global Migration Control, University of Amsterdam.

July 2021

Diplomatic Visit by the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba

Diplomatic Visit. On July 6, the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba His Excellency Mr. Ramón Ripoll Días and the Embassy Counselor for Science and Technology María Milagros Franco Suárez were guests at Heidelberg University in Germany. They were received in the university's In Bel Étage by Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller (Vice-rector for International Affairs), Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández (Director of the HCIAS) as well as by Dr. Astrid Wind (Executive Director of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences HGGS) and Prof. Dr. Mora (HGGS Projekt Nord-Nord-Süd). 

June 2021

Dr. Gerhard Ott Prize of Heidelberg University for Dr. Shima Salameh Jiménez

El español en Rumanía y Moldavia

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.

Óscar Loureda on Coseriu and linguistics at the Round Table Semantics, Pragmatics, Text Linguistics

Within the framework of the International Conference Coseriu100, University of Zurich, June 16-18.

May 2021

Education in Latin America: Global trends and challenges

by Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Faktoren der Anschlusskommunikation

Presentation by HCIAS Junior Professor Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé as part of the lecture series "Aktuelle Fragen der Sprach- und Translationswissenschaft", Institute for Translation and Interpreting.

Dia mundial da língua portuguesa: Variedades do Português

Public event at Heidelberg University, livestream with simultaneous interpretation. 

April 2021

Centro de Estudos Galegos at the HCIAS and the Galicia Center of the University of Vienna

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.