Organizations
Explore key academic institutions and associations in the Hispanic world
Academic Institutions
The Royal Spanish Academy, founded in 1713 on the initiative of Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco y Zúñiga, Marquis of Villena, is an institution with its own legal personality. As set out in the first article of its current statutes, its main mission is to ensure that the changes Spanish undergoes as it constantly adapts to the needs of its speakers do not break the essential unity it maintains throughout the Hispanic world.
The Duques de Soria Foundation (FDS), registered under number 1 in the Register of Cultural Foundations of the Junta de Castilla y León, is a non-profit cultural institution based in Soria. It was created in 1989 on the initiative and under the Honorary Presidency of H.R.H. Infanta Doña Margarita de Borbón and Mr. Carlos Zurita, Dukes of Soria.
The Permanent Observatory of Hispanism (OPH), part of the Duques de Soria Foundation, aims to recognize, promote and support international Hispanism by gathering, organizing and sharing information, and by encouraging and organizing Hispanism-related activities around the world.
The Instituto Cervantes is the public institution created by Spain in 1991 to promote the teaching, study and use of Spanish worldwide and to contribute to the dissemination of Hispanic cultures abroad.
Branches in Asia
Asian Associations
The Asian Association of Hispanists (AAH), established in August 1985 in Seoul. Promoting Hispanic studies in Asia since 1985.
The Taiwanese Association of Hispanists (ATH) is an organization dedicated to strengthening Hispanic studies in Taiwan through research, teaching, support for teachers, and cultural and academic cooperation.
The purpose of the Association is to promote studies related to the culture in general, languages and literatures of Spanish-speaking countries, and to contribute to the development of this research.
The Korean Association of Hispanists (ACH) is a cultural association devoted to the study and research of the Spanish language and culture, based in Seoul, South Korea.
The Philippine Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (AFELE) is a professional organization dedicated to teaching Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) in the Philippines. With more than 1,000 members, including teachers and enthusiasts, it organizes workshops, online courses and cultural activities to improve Spanish education.
Asociación de Profesores de Español de India (APEI) or Association of Teachers of Spanish, is the first association of Spanish teachers in India. It has received encouragement and support from the Embassy of Spain, as well as the embassies of Latin American countries, including Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. In addition, the Instituto Cervantes of New Delhi has offered its full support and collaboration to our association.
A pan India association of Indian academics, researchers and experts of Hispanism. The association promotes the study of languages, literatures, societies and culture of Spain, Latin America & the Caribbean in India.
The Japanese, Spanish and Latin American Academic Confederation (CANELA) is an association founded in Japan in 1988 and devoted to the study and research of the Hispanic world and its ties with Japan, promoting academic exchange under the motto "Union, science and friendship".
Spaniards in Asia
Casa de España en Taiwán is an initiative by a group of people living in Taiwan, aimed at creating an association legally established before the local authorities, which serves as a meeting point for Spaniards, Latin Americans and anyone, whatever their nationality, who is drawn to the culture and customs of Spain.
The Spanish Association of Singapore (AES) is a meeting point for the Spanish community in Singapore. It promotes Spanish culture through social, sports and cultural events, has more than 1,000 members including expatriates and enthusiasts, and also supports Spanish teaching and business networks.
International Associations
The International Association of Hispanists, founded in Oxford in 1962, aims to foster knowledge of Hispanic culture through the study of the language, the Peninsular and Ibero-American literatures, and related cultural aspects.
It brings together some four hundred teachers united by a universal code, the Spanish language. Its aims are to research, exchange, learn and make known. It was founded with these purposes in 1968 and soon erased European borders to become universal.
The International Golden Age Association (AISO) is an academic organization dedicated to promoting the study of the literature, language, art, history and culture of the Spanish Golden Age throughout the world.
The Spanish Society of General and Comparative Literature was founded in Madrid in 1977 to foster the study of literature in all its manifestations. Since its creation, the Society has organized a biennial symposium devoted to General and Comparative Literature.
Founded in 1917, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive language-specific professional association in the United States. Our nearly 10,000 members are educators from PreK-12 through graduate school who endorse our mission to promote, develop, and advance the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese worldwide.
The Comillas Foundation was created in December 2005 with the vocation of becoming an international reference institution in the training, research and dissemination of the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. This vocation remains in force, although to adapt to new demands it needs to contribute from its territory, Cantabria, and for the world with the sustainable development goals.
The Foundation aims to promote the study of the work of Camilo José Cela and to preserve his cultural, human and even anecdotal heritage, seeking to extend general knowledge of that work and heritage, as well as of all activities aimed at promoting culture.