Presentation

The School of Advanced Hispanic and Iberian Studies (L’École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, EHEHI) is at once a place where young researchers can train and an international research centre for human and social sciences.

For the period 2012-2016 its scientific policy, centring on the Iberian Peninsula, the Maghreb and Latin America (for the colonial and contemporary periods), is organised into five research areas. These areas are covered by pluri-annual programmes based on international cooperation arrangements which may be eligible for financing by the National research Agency or European institutions. The School further seeks to serve as a hatchery for innovative and sometimes highly specialised projects. Every year more than five hundred researchers from a wide variety of geographical locations take part in its activities.


The School currently hosts seventeen members—young researchers engaged in preparing PhD theses (the majority) or doing post-doctoral research that fits the School's mission. These members, who are appointed for a year, renewable for one further year and exceptionally two, are offered advanced training and are closely involved in its scientific activities. The School also receives PhD students in receipt of specific support for mobility, beneficiaries of research scholarships in conjunction with doctoral schools of French universities, and researchers under contract to the pluri-annual programmes. And lastly, it offers residential accommodation to top-level scientific personalities.

There are two directors of studies, one for ancient and mediaeval times and the other for modern and contemporary times, who are responsible for implementing the scientific policy defined by the director of Casa de Velázquez. They supervise the members and the grant and scholarship holders. They play an important part on the editorial board of Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez and the School's board of publications.