Institut für Spanien-, Portugal- & Lateinamerika-Studien (ISLA)
Augsburg will host the anniversary DHV Congress in 2027
The 25th International Congress of the DHV German Association of Hispanists will be celebrated and organized by the ISLA Institute at the University of Augsburg in March 9-13, 2027, regarding the diverse and polycentric transatlantic relations of the Spanish-speaking world.
Spaces In-Between
From 8 to 11 April 2026, an international conference on early modern transatlantic intermediate spaces of the 16th and 17th centuries will take place in Augsburg, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the ISLA Institute.
Poetics of Insomnia
July 22, 2025 the ISLA co-organizes at the Cervantes Institute of Munich a symposium dedicated to Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), including a scenic lecture in collaboration with world famous Lyrik Kabinett. The symposium is coordinated by Dr. Nora Zapf (Iberian Romance Studies) and supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and the Augsburg University's Graduate Center.
Urban Floods
On June 25, 2025 at 17h30 in D 1005, Mexican Social Scientist Libertad Chávez Rodríguez (CIESAS Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology) will introduce and discuss in Spanish the concept of environmental suffering from an intersectional perspective of risks and social inequalities, based on an ethnographic case study of recurring urban floods in the city of Monterrey. This ISLA PONTES Lecture is a collaboration between the Urban Cultures (URC) Working Group and the IDK International Doctorate Program "Rethinking Environment" (UNIA-LMU).
Latin American Readings
On June 18, 2025, Mexican poet Maricela Guerrero will read from her work at 6:30 p.m. at the Brechthaus (Auf dem Rain 7) with her German translator, Joanna Schwering, moderated by Dr. Nora Zapf. And on November 4, 2025 Argentine novelist María Rosa Lojo will read exactly there (6:30 p.m.), moderated by Prof. Victor A. Ferretti and with translations of the Augsburg Taller de Traducción Literaria. The two readings are part of the ISLA Femmes de Lettres Latinoamericanas Forum.
Indigenous Worlds
On April 29, 2025 at 17h30 in D 1005 the two Argentine CONICET researchers Ana Couchonnal (Universidad Nacional de Formosa) and ?Guillermo Wilde (Universidad Nacional de Salta) will offer an ISLA PONTES double lecture in Spanish on “Indigenous Worlds, Colonization, and the Formation of Modernity in South America.”
PONTES Lecture with Prof. Dr. Renato Cymbalista (FAU-USP)
Brazilian urbanist Prof. Dr. Renato Cymbalista (FAU-USP) will give a PONTES Lecture on "Other Urbanisms" as part of the interdisciplinary Urban Methods Lecture Series on December 12 (17h30 in D 1005). The lecture is organized by ISLA's Urban Cultures Working Group and open to all interested members of the University of Augsburg.