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HCIAS YouTube is an audiovisual platform where you can get a glimpse into the academic world of the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies. Oriented toward a wider audience, our YouTube channel offers multilingual, free and open content about the events taking place at the HCIAS. It also includes short videos in which our students and scholars share their experiences and give insights into their current research projects. Learn more about the HCIAS as the center for interdisciplinary Ibero-American Studies in Heidelberg, Germany!
Latest videos
Benedicte Bull: Authoritarian Capitalism in Latin America: Causes and Consequences | 13.11.24
In the first HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium of the Winter Semester 2024/2025, Dr. Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo, gave a presentation on Authoritarian Capitalism in Latin America: Causes and Consequences.
Dr. Bull is a professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Her research interests focus on the relationship between politics, economics and development, and how international conditions affect the possibilities of establishing good institutions that facilitate positive societal changes. Her main focus geographically is Latin America, with a particular focus on Venezuela, especially the relationship between politics and business elites.
Julia Roth: The Right to Migrate: The Coloniality of Citizenship and Feminist Resistance in Hip Hop | 10.07.24
Prof. Dr. Julia Roth gives the third and final guest lecture of the HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium 2024 with on „The Right to Migrate“: The Coloniality of Citizenship and Feminist Resistance in Hip Hop.
Prof. Dr. Roth is the Academic Senior Councillor for American Studies at Universität Bielefeld. Her research focuses on gender, migration, and cultural studies. Prof. Dr. Roth earned her doctoral degree from Universität Potsdam, where she investigated transnational feminist movements. She also holds a Master´s degree in North American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Sabine Kurtenbach: Peace processes in Latin America – ongoing violence and failed reforms | 29.05.24
Prof. Dr. Sabine Kurtenbach gives the second guest lecture of the HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium 2024 with on Peace processes in Latin America – ongoing violence and failed reforms.
Prof. Dr. Kurtenbach is a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies and currently the President of the GIGA (ad interim). Her research focuses on the consequences and interactions between violence and political institutions, particularly in the context of post-conflict societies.