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HCIAS Newsroom

September 2026

Master's Program: Communication and Society in Ibero-America

HCIAS Master’s Program: New Course Catalog for the semester October 2026 - February 2027

HCIAS Blog: Perspectives on Ibero-America

Two new blog posts by Nadezhda Bezuevskaia and David Peña Pérez, doctoral students at HfJS, HCIAS and University of Cádiz

New Publication

'Narratives for transnational mobilization? The effects of food safety narratives in four EU countries' by Pablo Porten-Cheé, Jale Tosun et al.

HCIAS PODCAST: CONECTANDO IBEROAMÉRICA

New episode with Blas de la Jara Plaza, doctoral researcher at the HCIAS: 'Non-Cisgender Activisms in Peru’

New Publication by Members of the Research Unit OSE

Informes del OGE: El español en los sistemas educativos europeos: alcance, desafíos y perspectivas

HCIAS Blog: Perspectives on Ibero-America

Insights from the HCIAS Master’s Program: Two New Blog Posts by students Lea Rolfes & Maren Schulz and Neri Salazar

August 2026

Applications are open! Apply for the Master’s program 'Communication and Society in Ibero-America' by September 30.

New Online Publication

'HACIA UN HORIZONTE COMPARTIDO: PROPUESTAS PARA UN OBSERVATORIO CONJUNTO DE LAS LENGUAS ESPAÑOLA Y PORTUGUESA EN EL MUNDO' by Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández now available online

HCIAS Publication Series 'Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics'

Volume 2: 'Artivist Sonorities' by Isaac Diego García, Daniel Moro Vallina & Montserrat Palacios

July 2026

New episode with Dr. Eva González Melón (KU Leuven): 'Hablantes de herencia en el aula de ELE'

New blog post by visiting student Marjorie Neto, Chile: 'Alemania y las comunidades energéticas: aprendizajes para la transición energética'

Knowledge Transfer

Article by Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda Lamas published in 'El Confidencial': 'El español sin fronteras: 15 millones de embajadores en la UE'

New Publication

Prof. Dr. Renata Motta contributed the entries 'Food Movements' and 'Women’s Food Production' to the 'Sage Encyclopedia of Environmental Justice'

NEW PUBLICATION

‘Multilingüismo, transmisión intergeneracional e identidad en contextos migratorios: perspectivas en diálogo’ by HCIAS scholar Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández et al.

NEW PUBLICATION

‘URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND THE UNEVENNESS OF CITY NETWORKS: The Trajectory and Perspectives of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Chile’ by HCIAS scholars Alejandra Irigoyen Rios & Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann

News HCIAS Member

A warm welcome to Valentina Méndez-Höcherl! Doctoral researcher supervised by Jun. Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González and member of the research project 'Lost Paths in No Woman's Land', funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation

Academic cooperation projects

The DAAD renews funding for international double-degree master’s programs strengthening Heidelberg’s cooperation with Ibero-America

JULY 07, 2026, 14:00-15:30 UHR I BERGHEIMER STR. 20, SEMINAR ROOM 215

Lecture by Priscila D. Carvalho, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro: ‘Protest and the Struggle for Democracy in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 2011–2020s’

Archiletras award for project 'diccionario de partículas discursivas del español': Research group ComCog contributed German translation

New Publication

'Las relaciones anafóricas de encapsulación en clave experimental' by Mathis Teucher, Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda & Dr. Adriana Cruz

June 2026

July 1, 20:00 I Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Cooperation HCIAS & Karlstorkino: Last Film Screening of the series 'Blackness and Whiteness in Brazilian Cinema and Scholarship'

June 30, 14:00-15:30 I Bergheimer Str. 20, Seminarraum 215

Lectures by doctoral researchers Anthony Meluso, University of Heidelberg and Monaí de Paula Antunes, University Bauhaus Weimar

New episode with Dr. Paula Arana, University of Heidelberg: 'The structural exclusions, municipal bureaucratic hurdles, and acute lack of burial spaces confronting Muslim communities in Spain today'

June 22 - 26 I HCIAS Summer Semester 2026

Block seminar at HCIAS by Dr. Miguel Carrera Troyano (University of Salamanca) on 'Poverty and Inequality in Latin America'

June 23, 14:00–15:30 Uhr | Bergheimer Str. 20, Seminarraum 215

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Debora Gerstenberger, Universität zu Köln: 'Digital Futures Past: Computers and the Making of New Temporalities in Latin America, 1960s–1980s'

June 24, 18:00 - 20:00 | Hauptstr. 235, 69117 Heidelberg

Lecture by Dr. Paula Arana Barbier on 'The Politics of the Afterlife' as part of the Völkerkundemuseum exhibition 'Mensch oder Objekt?'

New Publication

Scholars of Heidelberg University including Rosa Lehmann and Renata Motta on 'Mobilizing volunteer engagement for the Sustainable Development Goals: design lessons from volunteering policies'

Call for Participation, Extended Deadline: July 05, 2026

CRC 1671 subprojects B07 and B03 co-organize interdisciplinary workshop 'Home(s) by Food in Places'

June 09, 14:00 - 15:30 I Bergheimer Straße 20, Seminarraum 215

Lecture by Dr. Sofía Ávila, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: 'Solar Capitalism: Land, Minerals and Labor in the Global Energy Transition'

June 10, 20:00 I Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3

Cooperation HCIAS & Karlstorkino: Second Film Screening of the series 'Blackness and Whiteness in Brazilian Cinema and Scholarship'

New episode with Dr. Pablo Porten-Cheé: The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx

HCIAS Visting Doctoral Researcher

A warm welcome to David Pérez Peña, visiting doctoral researcher from the University of Cádiz and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Mai 2026

New Publication

Two contributions by Renata Motta on global food security theories and local urban struggles in Brazil

New Publication

'Family language policies, educational dynamics and Spanish as a heritage language in Germany' by Pilar Valero Fernández, Óscar Loureda Lamas & Charlotte Blattner

New Publication

Rafael Hernández Westpfahl: 'State selectivities in Mexico's 4th transformation: Indigenous consultation in the San José Mining Project, Oaxaca, Mexico'

Visiting doctoral fellow

A warm welcome to Sultana Jovanovska, visiting doctoral researcher from the University of Ljubljana and CEE fellow of the German Federal Environmental Foundation

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'

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