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The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the Americas. Established August 25, 1875 in Nancy, France, the scholars' forum has met regularly since its inception, presently in three year increments, with the exception of during the conflict of World War II. Its meeting location alternates between Europe and the Americas.[1] Congress members come from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art, education, economy, geography, history, human rights, law, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, and urban studies.[2]

Goal of the International Congress of Americanists: Contribuer au progrès des études ethnographiques, linguistiques et historiques relatives aux deux Amériques, spécialement pour les temps antérieurs à Christophe Colomb, et de mettre en rapport les personnes qui s'intéressent à ces études.

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A wide variety of subjects have been presented at the various conferences. Father Émile Petitot spoke at the 1875 Congress on the matter of the Asiatic origin of Inuit and North American Indians.[3] Precipitated by a comment from Franz Boas, a "lively controversy" occurred at the 1902 conference in New York City over the coined word "Amerind".[4] At the 1910 session in Mexico City, Marcos E. Becerra presented a paper on Hernán Cortés's 1524–25 expedition to Las Hibueras. The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, a co-operative of academic anthropologist researchers and human rights activists, was first proposed at the Munich/Stuttgart conference in August 1968. The 1982 congress in Manchester included the largest conference ever convened on the Amazon basin.[5] At the 1988 congress in Amsterdam, researchers organized a symposium agreeing to create a European network for the interchange of information about Latin America produced in Europe which was the precursor for REDIAL.

The president of the 53rd Congress was the Mexican anthropologist Elio Masferrer Kan. The event took place July 19–24, 2009, in Mexico City. The 54th Congress took place July 15–20, 2012 in Vienna (Austria), and was organized by the University of Vienna, the Austrian Latin America Institute and the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna. The 55th Congress was held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from July 12–17, 2015 with the theme "Conflict, Peace, and Construction of Identities in the Americas."

Dates and locations

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  1. 1875, Nancy
  2. 1877, Luxembourg
  3. 1879, Brussels
  4. 1881, Madrid
  5. 1883, Copenhagen
  6. 1886, Turin
  7. 1888, Berlin
  8. 1890, Paris
  9. 1892, Huelva
  10. 1894, Stockholm
  11. 1895, Mexico City
  12. 1900, Paris
  13. 1902, New York
  14. 1904, Stuttgart
  15. 1906, Quebec
  16. 1908, Vienna
  17. 1910, Buenos Aires (Part 1);
    Mexico City (Part 2)
  18. 1912, London
  19. 1915, Washington
  20. 1922, Rio de Janeiro
  21. 1924, The Hague (Part 1);
    Göteborg (Part 2)
  22. 1926, Rome
  23. 1928, New York
  24. 1930, Hamburg
  25. 1932, La Plata
  26. 1935, Seville
  27. 1939, Mexico City (Part 1);
    Lima (Part 2)[6]
  28. 1947, Paris
  29. 1949, New York
  30. 1952, Cambridge
  31. 1954, São Paulo
  32. 1956, Copenhagen
  33. 1958, San Jose de Costa Rica
  34. 1960, Vienna
  35. 1962, Mexico City
  36. 1964, Madrid–Barcelona–Seville
  37. 1966, Mar del Plata
  38. 1968, Stuttgart–Munich
  39. 1970, Lima
  40. 1972, Rome–Geneve
  41. 1974, Mexico City
  42. 1976, Paris
  43. 1979, Vancouver
  44. 1982, Manchester[7]
  45. 1985, Bogota
  46. 1988, Amsterdam
  47. 1991, New Orleans
  48. 1994, Stockholm–Göteborg
  49. 1997, Quito
  50. 2000, Warsaw
  51. 2003, Santiago de Chile[8]
  52. 2006, Seville[9]
  53. 2009, Mexico City
  54. 2012, Vienna[10]
  55. 2015, San Salvador, El Salvador
  56. 2018, Salamanca
  57. 2023, Foz do Iguaçu[11]
  58. 2025, Novi Sad

References

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  1. ^ "Welcome to 53°International Congress of Americanists". 53ica.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  2. ^ a b "The International Congress of Americanists , 1875–2006". 53ica.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  3. ^ Savoie, Donat (1982). "Emile Petitot (1838–1916)" (PDF). Arctic. 35 (3). Ottawa: aina.ucalgary.ca: 446–447. doi:10.14430/arctic2352. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  4. ^ "Americanists in dispute – Lively Controversy over Coining the Word "Amerind"" (PDF). The New York Times. October 22, 1902. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  5. ^ Hemming, John Henry (1985). The Frontier After a Decade of Colonisation: 44th International Congress of Americanists, Manchester, 1982. Manchester University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7190-0968-6.
  6. ^ "International Congress of Americanists in Mexico City". Nature. 144 (3642): 319. 1939. doi:10.1038/144319c0.
  7. ^ "44th International Congress of Americanists: Past Awards". britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2011-05-28. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  8. ^ "Welcome to Chile". americanistas.uchile.cl. Archived from the original on 2008-04-06. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  9. ^ "Welcome to 52º International Congress of Americanists, Seville 2006". 52ica.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
  10. ^ "54 International Congress of Americanists: Building Dialogues in the Americas". University of Vienna, Austrian Latin America Institute, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
  11. ^ 57th Congress of Americanists, retrieved am 2023-09-01.
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