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The International Association For Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) / SOCIETAS INTERNATIONALIS STUDIIS NEOLATINIS PROVEHENDIS (AIENL) aims to promote interest in Neo-Latin and its study throughout the world. The origins of the IANLS go back to the organisation in August 1971, in Leuven, by Professor Jozef Ijsewijn, founder of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae, and his team (Gilbert Tournoy, Godlieve Tournoy-Thoen, Marie-José Desmet-Goethals and Paul Thoen) of the first international congress for the promotion of Neo-Latin studies.

 In 2025 the President of the Association will be a French academic, Colette Nativel, Professor of Universities, Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR 03-Histoire de l'Art et Archéologie EA 4100 HiCSA (The Association has been chaired in the past by two other French academics: Alain Michel (Paris, Sorbonne) and Jean-Louis Charlet, prof. Emeritus at Aix-Marseille University). The French Association of Medio- and Neo-Latin Studies, as well as many French Neo-Latinists in higher education (EPHE, Paris VII, Dijon etc.) support this initiative and are ready to ask for the signature of conventions to contribute to it. Acclaimed at the General Assembly of the Association at the Avila Congress in 2018, Amu's candidacy will only be definitively approved at the IANLS 2021 General Assembly in Leuven on presentation of a pre-project that is already advanced.