Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics

Published by De Gruyter Brill.

Editors: Francisco Jesús Moreno-Fernández and Óscar Loureda Lamas

eISSN: 2941-3842, ISSN: 2941-3834

The series Understanding Ibero-American Spaces and Dynamics provides a scholarly platform for the publication of rigorous and innovative research addressing the contemporary conditions of Ibero-American societies and cultures. It covers a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, and studies of natural and cultural heritage. By publishing both monographs and edited volumes, the series encourages intellectual exchange across methodological and thematic boundaries. Reflecting the diversity and complexity of Ibero-America within a global academic framework, it aims to advance comparative inquiry and contribute to a deeper understanding of the region’s evolving dynamics in an interconnected world.

Latest volume:

Volume 1. 2025. Pathologies of inequality in Latin America. Challenges and consequences

Authors: José Antonio Alonso and Rodolfo Gutiérrez

Forthcoming:

Volume 2. Artivist sonorities. Liminal listening in Ibero-American Experimental Music and Sound Arts

Authors: Isaac Diego García, Daniel Moro Vallina, Montserrat Palacios

Handbooks of Ibero-American Studies

Published by De Gruyter Brill.

Editors: Francisco Jesús Moreno-Fernández and Óscar Loureda Lamas

eISSN: 2941-3826, ISSN: 2941-3818

The Handbooks of Ibero-American Studies constitute a systematic and comprehensive reference work within the interdisciplinary field of Ibero-American Studies. They address overarching themes and structural dynamics that define the Ibero-American macro-region, encompassing Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula as its core, as well as areas connected through enduring historical, cultural, political, and socioeconomic linkages. Each volume assembles contributions from leading international scholars that synthesize major developments in the field, critically assess the current state of research, and delineate trajectories for future scholarly advancement. Collectively, the series functions both as a repository of consolidated knowledge and as a catalyst for sustained academic dialogue across disciplinary and regional boundaries.

Forthcoming

Volume 1. Handbook of Borders in Ibero-America

Authors: Beatriz Zepeda, Sergio Peña Medina

Volume 2. Handbook of Communication, Media and Digital technologies in Ibero-America

Authors: Lionel Ricardo Brossi, Sandra Cortesi, Leanne Alexandra Hasse

Volume 3. Handbook of Ibero-American Sociolinguistics

Authors: Rocío Caravedo, Anna Maria Escobar, Pedro Martín Brutragueño, Francisco Moreno-Fernández

Demolingüística del español en Europa

Published by Instituto Cervantes.

Editors: HCIAS, Óscar Loureda Lamas and Francisco Moreno-Fernández; University of Zurich, Johannes Kabatek; Instituto Cervantes

Demolingüística del español en Europa publishes the output of the international collaborative research project El español en Europa. This project analyses the linguistic and cultural geography of Spanish and its speakers with a specific focus on the dynamics of migration, demography, and education. The book series, a collaboration between HCIAS, University of Zurich, and Instituto Cervantes, will include thirteen volumes covering the demography of the Spanish language in all European regions. 

Latest volume:

Volume 6. 2025. Demolingüística del español en el sureste europeo

Author(s): Óscar Loureda Lamas, Barbara Pihler Ciglič, Marko Kapović, Cristina Bleorțu, Vita Veselko, Kiriakí Palapanidi, Edina Spahić, Ivana Ustamujić, Sanja Mihajlovikj-Kostadinovska, Ana Jovanović, Marjana Šifrar Kalan, Igor Popovski, Ivana Kovač Barett, Ivana Vučina Simović, Jelena Kovač, Ivana Georgijev, Flavia Kaba, and Pilar Valero Fernández

Forthcoming:

Volume 7. Demolingüística del español en Europa central

Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana RILI

RILI is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which is co-edited by Iberoamericana / Vervuert publishing house, the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, the University of Zurich, and the HCIAS. It publishes studies on Ibero-Romance languages inside and outside the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. It also features articles about languages in contact with them, in particular, the African, Amerindian, Asian, and Austronesian languages, and the creole languages arising from the contact with Portuguese and Spanish. 

Latest issue:

Volume XXIII. No. 45. Thematic section: Hispano-Cuban Linguistic and Cultural Ties: Explorations from the 19th Century

Jun 2025  |    Coordinator(s): Marta Puente González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Marta Rodríguez Manzano (Universidad de Sevilla)

Food for Justice Working Paper Series

Food for Justice Working Papers is a series that shares new work and knowledge on the question of how we are going to feed the world. To that end, this series publishes the first results of ongoing research projects in the field of power, politics, and food inequalities in a bioeconomy in order to encourage the exchange of ideas and stimulate debate. It is aimed at a wide audience of academics, social activists, food producers and consumers, policy-makers, and any other interested party. Food for Justice Working Paper Series is an open-access publication series hosted by heiJOURNALS of Heidelberg University Library. Food for Justice is a Junior Research Group based at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Latest issue:

Marcha das Margaridas 2023: alimentação, mobilização social e feminismos

Sep 2025  |    Author(s): Marco Antonio Teixeira, Birgit Peuker, Eryka Galindo, Renata Motta

HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America

HCIAS Working Papers publishes peer-reviewed articles that present the findings of ongoing research on Ibero-America from different perspectives and disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. HCIAS Working Papers aims to bring attention to new theoretical and methodological perspectives and stimulate scientific dialog on issues of particular concern to the societies making up the Ibero-American macro-region within a global polycentric framework. Contributions to the HCIAS Working Papers are evaluated by external reviewers to guarantee their quality and, above all, potential to contribute to international academic discussion. As these are still works in progress, manuscripts published as HCIAS Working Papers may be developed further for publication in other journals. HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America is an open-access publication series edited by the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies and hosted by heiJOURNALS of Heidelberg University Library.

Special Series

Special Series 1: COVID-19 Pandemic in Ibero-America

Special Series 2: Socioenvironmental change in Ibero-America

Special Series 3: Working Papers del Observatorio del español en Europa

Latest issue:

Fact-checking versus Misinformation: A Mexican Case Study

August 2025  |    Author(s): Luis Rodrigo Pesce Villagómez (Universität Heidelberg)