HCIAS International Summer and Winter Schools

CLAIMS_2023 - Claims and counterclaims over natural and cultural heritage - was an International Winter School for doctoral students and advanced master’s students of the humanities and the social sciences. In particular, the goal of CLAIMS_2023 was to better understand the contested terrain existing between states, multinational corporations, NGOs, and local communities, focusing on the claims and counterclaims over cultural and natural heritage. The school is part of the Flagship Initiative “Transforming Cultural Heritage” of Heidelberg University’s Excellence Strategy and was organized by the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology (MWI) and the interdisciplinary Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). CLAIMS_2023 was held from February 27th to March 3rd, 2023 at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Germany.

JUNCTURES_2022 - Critical Junctures and Windows of Opportunity for (Post-) Pandemic Societies in Europe and Latin America - considered the Covid-19 pandemic to be a critical juncture, which may have contributed to the strengthening of current polarization dynamics and social and economic inequality, but that may alternatively have been visualized as a window of opportunity for political reforms and for social, economic, and ecological transformation processes. JUNCTURES_2022 departed from this background and sought to encourage participants to critically analyze this window of opportunity and its implications for the post-pandemic societies of Europe and Latin America from different analytic perspectives. The international summer school took place from July 25th to August 2nd, 2022, in Heidelberg, Germany. The school was organized by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) and the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA) and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

CONST_2021- Constitutional Processes in Latin America and Europe: Mechanisms, Contexts, Perspectives - took place from July 25th through August 3rd, 2021, and was aimed at master's and doctoral students from Ibero-American universities interested in acquiring and expanding their knowledge on current approaches to investigating constituent processes. The main objective of the CONST_2021 academic program was to provide participants with the conceptual and methodological tools necessary to investigate processes of great social impact, such as constitutional reforms or creations, from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. CONST_2021 also sought to motivate students to develop their own research and to collaborate with the international networks of the University of Heidelberg. This program was organized by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), the Heidelberg Center Latin America (HCLA), the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University, the Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).