Center for InterAmerican Studies

The Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) is an interdisciplinary institution at Bielefeld University focusing on research and teaching related to the Americas.

The CIAS reflects a new direction in regional studies in the wake of the diverse dynamics of globalisation. Accordingly, the CIAS has focused its work on comparative and transregional research into interculturality, identity politics and coloniality, cultural policy and mediality, social movements, integration and social transformations, as well as migration and transnationalisation dynamics in the Americas. Its members include researchers from a variety of fields, including history, sociology, political science, theology, Latin American studies, American studies, literary studies, linguistics, and law at Bielefeld University.