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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
Camilo Forero: Más allá de los Acuerdos: Paz Cotidiana y los Festivales en el Conflicto Colombiano | 18.12.24
In the final HCIAS Wednesday Colloquium of the Winter Semester 2024/2025, Dr. Nelson Camilo Forero Medina, Universität Bielefeld, gave a presentation on Más allá de los Acuerdos: Paz Cotidiana y los Festivales en el Conflicto Colombiano.
Peace studies have mostly focused on the construction of “peace” by political or social elites, armed groups and leaders of conflicting forces. Nonetheless, community-based efforts to build peace, however defined, are usually scarcely studied. This has changed in recent years with the “everyday peace” perspective.
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.