Baden-Württembergisches Brasilien- und Lateinamerika-Zentrum

TRT Colombia (2024-2025)

Cultural Transfers and Intellectual Networks in Colonbian and Latin American Magazines

The project had two aims: to advance the study of the history of Colombian literature, and to unite two research groups — the Colombian research group 'Colombia: Tradiciones de la palabra' and the Tübingen project 'Revistas culturales 2.0' — which have shared interests but different cultural backgrounds.  Together, we analyzed cultural transfers between Europe and Colombia in the early 20(th) century, basing our research on a corpus of 28 literary magazines from 1892–1950. We also collaborated on designing new mixed methods that can be applied in the future within the field of Latin American Periodical Studies.

Researchers

  • Prof. Hanno Ehrlicher, chair-holder at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Tübingen and responsible fort he VRE Revistas culturales 2.0
     
  • Dra. Ana María Agudelo Ochoa, professor (profesora titutar) at the Facultad de Comunicaciones y Filología, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), and leader of the research group “Colombia: tradiciones de la palabra”

„While in Medellín, I was impressed not only by the pragmatic efficiency of the Colombian research group, but especially by their perseverance in overcoming all systemic and infrastructural obstacles, manifacturing always best solutions“.

Prof. Hanno Ehrlicher

“Thanks to our collaboration with Revistas culturales 2.0, we have achieved significant progress in research methodologies that intersect magazine studies with Digital Humanities. But, perhaps more importantly, we have created a strong bond that has had valuable impact on the academic careers of students and faculty members at the University of Antioquia”

Dra. Ana María Agudelo Ochoa

Hanno Ehrlicher (second from left) and Ana María Agudelo Ochoa (fourth) together with two members of the research team at the conference on Networks and Periodical Studies at the UdeA in Medellín (August 2024)

Hanno Ehrlicher (first from left) and Ana María Agudelo Ochoa (third) together with Andrew Reynolds at the conference “The Mediation Effect: The Impact of Economics and Technology on Literature in the Hispanic Contexts”, University of Tübingen (June, 2025).