Observatory of Spanish in Europe
Observatory of Spanish in Europe | OSE
The Observatory of Spanish in Europe is a research center founded in 2023 at Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), Heidelberg University. Its main goal is to offer data that can help tackle the emerging trends related to Spanish and its speakers in Europe.
Book publication: Demolingüística del español en el sureste europeo
The sixth volume in the series Demolingüística del español en Europa, which focuses on the Southeastern Europe countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, was published in May 2025.
See the book presentation here.
Seminar: Encapsulación y correferencia en clave experimental
On March 31st, Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda, director of the OSE, gave the seminar ‘Encapsulación y correferencia en clave experimental’ at the University of Zurich. We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Johannes Kabatek, titular professor of Romance Philology with a specialization in Iberian Romance Linguistics, for the invitation.
XXIV Congress of the German Association of Hispanists in Hamburg, Germany
The Observatory of Spanish in Europe participated in the XXIV Congress of the German Association of Hispanists: dynamics of transfer and hybridation, celebrated in Hamburg between March 11-15 2025. Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda gave the conference “El español como lengua de herencia en Europa: una mirada demolingüística”. Dr. Pilar Valero gave a presentation on “¿Cómo es de fiable ChatGPT en la corrección de la puntuación?” and doctoral researcher Ana Gómez-Pavón Durán on “El estudio de las competencias lingüísticas de los hablantes de español como lengua de herencia desde una perspectiva cuantitativa”.
Visit from Johanna-Wittum Schule Pforzheim
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Awarded the first Prize for International Hispanism