The Institute for Advanced Latin American Studies (; IHEAL) is a public research and teaching center at the

Sorbonne Nouvelle University The Sorbonne Nouvelle University (, also known as Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne) is a public liberal arts and humanities university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the hi ...

dedicated to

Latin American studies Latin American studies (LAS) is an academic and research field associated with the study of Latin America. The interdisciplinary study is a subfield of area studies, and can be composed of numerous disciplines such as economics, sociology, histor ...

. It was founded in 1954 by geographer

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Description

The research axes include: analysis of the contemporary Latin American and North American world; territorial mutations; social actors; cultural, political and juridical transformations in the region. The IHEAL works along with the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA), which depends on the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

(CNRS) and Sorbonne Nouvelle. From 1956 until 2019, it was located in ''rue Saint-Guillaume'',

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. It is now located on the Campus Condorcet, as part of the “Cité des humanités et des sciences sociales” (City of Humanities and Social Sciences) in

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. The Pierre Monbeig library was established in 1956. Is one of the most complete and specialized collections in

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on Latin America and the Caribbean, including publications on history, anthropology, sociology, politics, arts and literature. It is associated with the

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and Sorbonne. It is currently housed in the “Humathèque” of the Campus Condorcet. IHEAL's publishing house produces multidisciplinary research works. Its collections include: “Travaux et mémoires” (papers and theses), with more than eighty titles to date, and “Chrysalides” (Chrysalides), for the best research papers in master program. Its current director is the

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-born sociologist Denis Merklen. Its former directors include: anthropologist Capucine Boidin (2019-2022); historian Olivier Compagnon (2015-2019); geographer Sébastien Velut (2011-2015); sociologist Polymnia Zagefka; former education minister

Jean-Michel Blanquer Jean-Michel Blanquer (; born 4 December 1964) is a French jurist and government official serving as Minister of National Education under Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex from 2017 to 2022. Education and early career Born in t ...

(1998-2004); political scientist Georges Couffignal (1993-1998); as well as

Jacques Chonchol Jacques Chonchol (26 March 1926 – 5 October 2023) was a Chilean politician and professor known for his work in the Chilean land reform, land reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s. Chonchol served from 1970 to 1972 as Ministry of Ag ...

and Christian Gros (1982-1993).

References

{{reflist Latin American studies Educational institutions established in 1954 1954 establishments in France