The Institut des Amériques is a Scientific Interest Group deferating french studies in human and social sciences on the American continent. Organized as a network, it allows the collaboration between teachers, researchers, scientific information professionals, non-academic partners with economic backgrounds, politicians and journalists. The Institut des Amériques membership consists of more than 60 french higher education institutions and research institutes. It brings together more than 1,000 researchers. It promotes the development of joint projects among French, North and Latin American researchers and scholars. These missions benefit from the Institut des Amériques' organizational structure comprising 4 regional centers, and its international projection on the American continent has set up 12 international centers, run by PhD students enjoying PhD contracts, in the premises of French institutions, universities and American partners. Find us : - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/InstitutDesAmeriques/ - Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/InstitutdesAmeriques - Twitter : @idameriques