Research and Knowledge Transfer

The Centro de Estudos Galegos at Heidelberg University promotes and supports research on Galician language, culture, and society within the international academic community. Its objectives include strengthening the position of Galician studies within German academia and encouraging new research on Galicia.

The CEG supports research in linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies, particularly through bachelor’s and master’s theses, doctoral projects, and scholarly publications. The centre also encourages participation in conferences and academic events related to Galician language, culture, and literature.

Recent Work

Fabro, Lisamaria & Óscar Loureda (2025). Las redes sociales y el mantenimiento intergeneracional de la lengua: el uso del gallego en Instagram. HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America, Volume IV. https://doi.org/10.48629/HCIAS.2025.1.114298

Lisamaria Fabro (2024). O galego en Instagram. Master’s thesis examining the use of Galician on social media.

Vanesa Rodríguez Tembrás (2024). Doctoral thesis on code-switching in bilingual medical consultations in Galicia, based on a corpus of doctor–patient interactions analysed from sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic perspectives.

Kathrin Theißen (2020). Master’s thesis on consecutive connectives in Galician, focusing on their use in discourse through corpus data analysis.