International Congress of Americanists

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

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. 2021, Foz do Iguaçu[11]

References

1. "Welcome to 53°International Congress of Americanists". 53ica.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
2. "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. Ottawa: aina.ucalgary.ca. 35 (3): 446–447. doi:10.14430/arctic2352.
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. Portal da Cidade Foz do Iguaçu, retrieved am 2018-08-08.

External links

• Guide to the International Congress of Americanists Records, 1949-1953
• First Call for Papers 55th ICA accessed May 10, 2014