HCIAS NEWSLETTER
27 OCTOBER 2022

Bienvenidos/as, boas-vindas, and welcome back to the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies! This issue of the HCIAS Newsletter features information on academic programs, upcoming events, HCIAS researchers abroad, new publications by HCIAS scholars, and our latest podcast episode.

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The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) welcomes its students, staff, faculty, and collaborators to the Winter Semester 2022/23! The HCIAS team is ready and eager to begin its academic activities and   excited to start this promising new semester.
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Between Thursday and Friday (20-21st) October, the Red de Investigadores Chilenos en Alemania (Red INVECA), held its annual meeting in Heidelberg and in Santiago de Chile. Young researchers were invited to present their work and connect with peers and institutions engaged in academic cooperation between Chile and Germany. On the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of Red INVECA and 20 years of the Heidelberg Center Latin America, this year‘s event was organized in cooperation with the Heidelberg Center Latin America and Heidelberg University.
 

HCIAS research associate Dr. Héctor Álvarez Mella is coordinating the 2023 special issue of ENERGEIA, Online Journal for Linguistics, Language and Philosophy, with the title Epistemology of language and space. The goal of the issue is to offer an interdisciplinary mosaic that reflects how conceptual and methodological developments in the study of the language-space relationship open up new ways of understanding the spatial nature of linguistic phenomena and the linguistic and discursive reality of space.

Call for papers here 

Deadline for submission: 15 May 2023

Maria Angel Orjuela, HCIAS doctoral researcher, has participated in a short-term research residency at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. Within the framework of her doctoral research on feminism in high-risk zones and armed conflict, Maria Angel joined in September the Observatorio Nacional de Procesos de Memoria (ONALME) as a researcher, participating in multiple scientific and academic activities.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Youth
In the sixth episode of the HCIAS Podcast, Professor Lionel Brossi Garavaglia from the University of Chile made a guest appearance. The dialogue with Professor Brossi covered topics related to artificial intelligence (AI), social inclusion, digital skills and his project on the discourses of pandemic and youth in Chile

Listen here

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New publication by HCIAS Junior Professor Alejandro Ecker and HCIAS doctoral fellow Michael Imre on Racism and Social Media “Rassismus in Sozialen Medien: Automatisiertes Erkennen rassistischer Hetzer in der virtuellen politischen Öffentlichkeit”. The paper was written as part of a cooperative short study of the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa) supported by the Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM).

Read it here 

New HCIAS working paper by Lionel Brossi, María Ibáñez, Tamara Hoffman, Ana María Castillo from the University of Chile and Sandra Cortesi from the University of Zurich. As part of the HCIAS project Discursos Públicos de la Pandemia en Iberoamérica, the paper  explores, through a qualitative methodology, how media and public discourse around youth and COVID-19 intersect with the attitude and well-being of young people. 

This project has been partially financed by the Millenium Nucleus to Improve the mental health of Adolescents and Youth (lmhay).

Check it out here.