Institute for Latin American Studies
Lateinamerika-Institut | |
 Institute for Latin American Studies | |
| Type | Institute |
|---|---|
| Established | 1970 |
| Affiliation | Free University of Berlin |
| Location | , |
| Website | www |
The Institute for Latin American Studies (German Lateinamerika-Institut, abbreviated LAI) of Free University of Berlin is an interdisciplinary teaching and research institution in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany, which specializes in the Latin American region. Along with the Institute for East European Studies and the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, it is one of three interdisciplinary so-called central institutes at the FU that specialize in regional studies[1] It counts itself among the leading European institutions for teaching and research on Latin America-related topics.[1][2]
Founded in 1970[3], the Institute for Latin American Studies houses several professorships in the social sciences and humanities, as well as sub-programs in undergraduate education and a master's program in "Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies".[4] As of 2019, there were seven professors and 25 scientific workers working in the institute.[5] The offered disciplines include gender studies, cultural anthropology, history, literature and culture, economics, political science and sociology[6], and the research focus is especially on the questions on social transformation, social inequalities, historical processes and actors of globalization, democratization processes, transitional justice, politics of memory, peace processes and conflicts in Latin America.[7]
The library of the Institute for Latin American Studies hosts the biggest collection of related literature worldwide.[8]
The Institute for Latin American Studies is situated in the building called Reichsknappschaftshaus, designed by architects Max Taut and Franz Hoffmann and completed in 1930. The building was deemed rather modern for its era[9] and it has been added to the Berlin State Monument List ("Berliner Landesdenkmalliste").[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lateinamerika-Institut". www.fu-berlin.de. October 3, 2005.
- ↑ Birle, Peter (2021). "Latin American, North American and Inter-American Studies in Germany". Ideas (17). doi:10.4000/ideas.10704.
- ↑ "Lateinamerika - Institut". www.peru-vision.com.
- ↑ "Master of Arts (MA) in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies". www2.daad.de.
- ↑ "Lateinamerika-Institut. Freie Universität Berlin". bauhaus100.de.
- ↑ "Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI)". http://lusitanistenverband.de. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) / Freie Universität Berlin (FUB)". instituto-capaz.org.
- ↑ "Ganz Lateinamerika unter einem Dach". www.tagesspiegel.de.
- ↑ Das Haus der Reichsknappschaft. In: Der Tagesspiegel of May 13/14 1972.
- ↑ "Lateinamerika-Institut der FU Berlin". berlin.de. 20 August 2014.
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