The International Congress of Americanists is a scientific activity of a long tradition. The first Congress was held in the city of Nancy in France, in August 25 of 1875, called by the Société Américaine de France and they have met without interruption since then. Its immediate goal: “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”.

During the ten first versions of the International Congress of Americanists, the seat was in Europe. The first Congress in America was held in Mexico, in 1895. Since then, it has been tried to alternate the seat between the old and new world.

Along the time, the Congresses increased the number of subjects studied and nowadays they gather specialists in Anthropolgy, Archaeology, Art, Law, Economy, Education, Philosophy, Geography, History, Linguistics, Sociology, Urban Studies, Human Rights and other technological areas.

Today the International Congress of Americanists (ICA) meets every three years and is attended by a high number of participants in a wide variety of scientific activities: simposia, conferences, meetings of international associations and organizations related to american studies, etc.

References:

Comas, Juan: Cien años de Congresos Internacionales de Americanistas. Ensayo histórico-crítico y bibliográfico, UNAM, México 1974.

Proyecto Filosofía en español, “Congreso Internacional de Americanistas desde 1875”, www.filosofia.org/ave/001/a051.htm

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES OF AMERICANISTS HELD SINCE 1875

1º – 1875, Nancy

President: Baron Guerrier de Dumast. General Secretary: Alfred Rambaud

2º – 1877, Luxembourg

President: Francois-Xavier Wurth-Paquet. General Secretary: Dr. Henrion

3º – 1879, Brussels

President: Baron A.C.A.L. Goethels. General Secretary: Anatole Bamps

4º – 1881, Madrid

President: José Luis Albreda. General Secretary: Cesáreo Fernández Duro

5º – 1883, Copenhagen

President: Johan Jakob A. Worsaae. General Secretary: W.A. Carteasen

6º – 1886, Turin

President: Ariodante Fabretti. General Secretary: Guido Cora

7º – 1888, Berlin

President: Wilhelm Reiss. General Secretaries: Gustav Hellmann, Otto Olshausen

8º – 1890, Paris

President: Armand de Quatrefages de Brea. General Secretary: Desiré Pector

9º – 1892, Huelva

President: Antonio María Fabié. General Secretary: Justo Zaragoza

10º – 1894, Stockholm

Presidents: Gustav A. Tamm, Rudolf Virchow, Adolf E. Nordenskiold. General Secretary: Carl Bovallius

11º – 1895, Mexico City

President: Joaquín Baranda. General Secretary: Trinidad Sánchez Santos

12º – 1900, Paris

President: Ernest T. Hamy. General Secretary: Henri Froidevaux

13º – 1902, New York

President: Morris K. Jesup. General Secretary: Marshall H. Saville

14º – 1904, Stuttgart

President: Karl Von de Steinen. General Secretary: Kurt Lampert

15º – 1906, Quebec

President: Robert Bell. General Secretary: Narcisse E. Dione

16º – 1908, Vienna

President: Wilhelm Freiherr Von Weckbecker. General Secretary: Franz Heder

17º – 1910 (Firts Part), Buenos Aires

President: José Nicolás Matienzo. General Secretary: Robert Lehmann-Nitsche

17º – 1910 (Second Part), Mexico City

President: Eduard Seler. General Secretary: Genaro García

18º- 1912, London

President: Clements Robert Markham. General Secretaries: F.C.A. Sarg, Adela A. Breton

19º – 1915, Washington

President: John W. Fisher. General Secretary: Alex Hrdlicka

20º – 1922, Rio de Janeiro

President: Antonio Carlos Simoens da Silva. General Secretary: Adolpho Morales de los Ríos

21º – 1924 (First Part), The Hague

President: Theodore Félix Albert Delprat. General Secretary: D. Alberts

21º – 1924 (Second Part), Göteborg

President: Oscar Von Sydow. General Secretary: Erland H. Nordenskiold

22º – 1926, Rome

President: Amedo Giannini. General Secretary: Guido Valeriano Callegari

23º – 1928, New York

President: Franz Boas. General Secretaries: P.E. Goddart, Nels C. Nelson

24º – 1930, Hamburg

President: Georg Christian Thilenius. General Secretary: Rudolf Grossmann

25º – 1932, La Plata

President: Ricardo Levene. General Secretary: Fernando Márquez Miranda

26º – 1935, Seville

President: Gregorio Marañón Posadillo. General Secretary: José María Torroja Miret

27º – 1939 (First Part), Mexico City

President: Alfonso Caro. General Secretary: Pablo Martínez del Río

27º – 1939 (Second Part), Lima

President: Alfredo Solf y Muro. General Secretary: Jorge Basadre

28º – 1947, Paris

President: Paul Rivet. General Secretary: André Leroi-Gourhan

29º – 1949, New York

President: Alfred L. Kroeber. General Secretary: Alfred V. Kidder

30º – 1952, Cambridge

President: J. Eric S. Thompson. General Secretary: Hermann J. Braunholtz

31º – 1954, Sao Paulo

President: Paul Rivet. General Secretary: Herbert Baldus

32º – 1956, Copenhagen

President: Kaj Birket-Smith. General Secretary: Jens Yde

33º – 1958, San Jose de Costa Rica

President: Doris Stone. General Secretaries: Carlos Meléndez, Alvar Antillón

34º – 1960, Vienna

President: Robert Heine-Geldern. General Secretary: Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein

35º – 1962, Mexico City

President: Ignacio Bernal. General Secretary: Miguel León Portilla

36º – 1964, Madrid-Barcelona-Seville

President: Luis Pericot García. General Secretary: José Alcina Franch

37º – 1966, Mar del Plata

President: Alberto Rex González. General Secretary: Víctor A. Nuñez

38º – 1968, Stuttgart-Munich

President: Hermann Trimborn. General Secretary: Otto Zerries

39º – 1970, Lima

President: José Matos Mar. General Secretary: Fernando Fuenzalida Vollmar

40º – 1972, Rome-Geneve

President: Ernesta Cerulli. General Secretary: Italo Signorini

41º – 1974, Mexico City

President: Guillermo Bonfil Batalla. General Secretary: Enrique Florescano Mayet

42º – 1976, Paris

President: Claude Lévi-Strauss. General Secretary: Jacques Lafaye

43º – 1979, Vancouver

President: Cyril Belshaw. General Secretary: Alfred Siemens

44º – 1982, Manchester

President: Harold Blakemore. General Secretaries: John Fisher, David Fox, David Preston

45º – 1985, Bogota

President: Rafael Rivas Posada. General Secretaries: Nohra Rey de Marulanda, Jorge Orlando Melo, Marco Palacios, Manuel Rodríguez Becerra

46º – 1988, Amsterdam

President: Harry Hoetink. General Secretaries: Kees den Boer, Jan Kleipenning, Jan Lechner, Hans de Wit

47º – 1991, New Orleans

President: Richard E. Greenleaf. General Secretary: Munro S. Edmonson

48º – 1994, Stockholm-Uppsala

President: Magnus Mörner. General Secretary: Jan-Ake Alvarsson

49º – 1997, Quito

President: Hernán A. Andrade. General Secretary: Segundo E. Moreno Yáñez

50º – 2000, Warsaw

President: Andrzej Dembicz. General Secretary: Mariusz Ziólkowski

51º – 2003, Santiago de Chile

President: Luis A. Riveros Cornejo. General Secretary: Milka Castro Lucic

52º – 2006, Seville

President: Miguel Florencio Lora. General Secretaries: Antonio Acosta Rodríguez, María Luisa Laviana Cuetos

53º – 2009, Mexico

President: Elio Masferrer Kan. General Secretaries: Elizabeth Díaz Brenis, Jorge René González Marmolejo

54º – 2012, Viena

President: Martina Kaller-Dietrich. General Secretaries: Claudia Augustat, Josefina Echavarría, Georg Grünberg, David Mayer, Berthold Molden, Stefanie Reinberg

55º – 2015, San Salvador

President: Walter Raudales. General Secretaries: Ramón Rivas, Catalina Machuca

Statutes of the International Congress of Americanists

Art. 01

The International Congress of Americanists has as its object the historical and scientific study of the two Americas and their inhabitants.

Art. 02

The Congress will take place every three years; as a far as possible it shall alternate its sessions between the Old and New Worlds; it cannot meet consecutively in the same country.

Art. 03

It is composed of all those persons who have requests admission and paid their subscription. The Organizing Committee can refuse applications for either regular or associate membership from persons who, in any preceding Congress, have strayed from the ways of science or caused disagreements or trouble.

Art. 04

At the end of each session the Congress designates the place where the next session shall be held, and chooses a certain number of persons charged to constitute an Organizing Committee at the designated place.

Art. 05

The Committee names its President, and chooses up to six Vicepresidents, up to four General Secretaries and such other officers as is appropriate to the efficient running of the Congress.

Art. 06

The Committee fixes the exact date of the meetings, the number of sessions, the amount of subscription, arranges the program and the subjects to be treated. It prepares, if appropriate, preliminary reports to be produced at the Congress, sends the invitations, receives fees, and issues members` credentials and publishes a records of the Congress although it is not obliged to publish all or any of the papers presented.

Art. 07

The list of subjects considered by the Committee are sent beforehand to the members; they may propose for the committee`s consideration such modifications as appear to be useful; a part of the sittings of each sessions is also reserved for questions not included in the program, which may be proposed by a member and accepted by the Committee.

Art. 08

The official languages of the Congress are: Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese and Italian, with the addition in each case of the language of the country in which the Congress takes place.

Art. 09

The Congress may confer on persons noted for services rendered by them to American studies the titles of Honorary President or Vicepresident.

Art. 10

A Permanent Committee composed of the present and former Presidents and General Secretaries is charged to maintain the tradition of the Congress, to watch over the proper execution of the regulations and to face the unforeseen difficulties which might arise in the interval between two sessions. All presidents and one General Secretary from each Congress session will be entitled to vote on matters debated by the Permanent Committee.

Art. 11

The Permanent Committee will appoint a Liaison sub-committee to advise and assist organizing committees on matters concerning forthcoming Congress. The Permanent Committee may appoint such sub-committees as is required.

Art. 12

All modifications of these Statutes shall be proposed and approved in plenary sessions and will not be effective until ratified by succeeding Congress.

Permanent Committee of International Congress of Americanists · 2015-2018

1. Jan-Åke ALVARSSON, Sweden – President ^[*]
2. Elizabeth DÍAZ BRENIS, Mexico – Vicepresident ^[*]
3. Walter RAUDALES, El Salvador – Secretary ^[*]
4. Antonio ACOSTA RODRÍGUEZ, Spain
5. Milka CASTRO LUCIC, Chile ^[*]
6. Horacio CERUTTI GULDBERG, Mexico ^[*]
7. Kees DEN BOER, Netherlands ^[*]
8. John R. FISHER, United Kingdom ^[*]
9. Enrique FLORESCANO MAYET, Mexico
10. Jorge René GONZÁLEZ MARMOLEJO, Mexico ^[*]
11. Adolfo L. GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Spain
12. Martina KALLER, Austria ^[*]
13. Jacques LAFAYE, France
14. María Luisa LAVIANA CUETOS, Spain ^[*]
15. Miguel LEÓN PORTILLA, Mexico
16. Catalina MACHUCA, El Salvador ^[*]
17. Elio MASFERRER KAN, Mexico ^[*]
18. David MAYER, Austria ^[*]
19. Berthold MOLDEN, Austria ^[*]
20. Segundo E. MORENO YÁNEZ, Ecuador ^[*]
21. Stefanie REINBERG, Austria ^[*]
22. Nohra REY DE MARULANDA, Colombia
23. Rafael RIVAS POSADA, Colombia
24. Ramón RIVAS, El Salvador ^[*]
25. Luis RIVEROS CORNEJO, Chile
26. Mariusz ZIÓLKOWSKI, Poland ^[*]

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With asterisk ^[*] the members of the Permanent Committee who have participated in at least one of

the three last congresses: 53 ICA-2009, 54 ICA-2012, 55 ICA-2015.

Anthropology

Carmen Martínez-Novo, University of Kentucky

Pablo Palenzuela, Universidad de Sevilla

Art and Cultural Patrimony

Antonio Notario, Universidad de Salamanca

Archeology

Chris Pool, University of Kentucky

Andrés Ciudad, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Sciences and the Environment

Barbara Hogenboom, Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation – CEDLA / Universiteit van Amsterdam

Alfredo Stein, University of Manchester

Communication and New Technologies

Ángel Badillo, Universidad de Salamanca

Delia Crovi, UNAM

World Views and Religious Studies

Elizabeth Díaz Brennis, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia      

Mercedes Saizar, CONICET

Education

José Mª Hernández, Universidad de Salamanca

Pablo Gentili, CLACSO

Cultural studies

Catherine Boyle, King’s College London

Martina Kellar, Universität Wien

Gender Studies

Gioconda Herrera, FLACSO-Ecuador

Arantxa Elizondo, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco

Economic studies

Diego Sánchez, University of Oxford

Andrés Rivarola, Stockholms Universitet

Political studies

Scott Morgensten, University of Pittsburg  

Gisella Sin, University of Illinois

Socials studies

Alberto Martín, Instituto Mora

Carmen Ilizarbe, Universidad Católica de Perú     

Helene Renee Roux, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Philosophy and Thought

José Luis Molinuevo, Universidad de Salamanca

Horacio Cerruti Guldberg, UNAM

History

María Luisa Laviana, CSIC

Ascensión Martínez Riaza, Universidad Complutense

Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti, Universidad de Salamanca

Lingüística y literatura

Francisca Noguerol, Universidad de Salamanca

Carlos Franz, Academia de Chile

Migrations

Alberto de Rey, Universidad de Salamanca

Christian Zlolniski, University of Texas at Arlington

Social movements

Salvador Martí, Universitat de Girona   

David Garibay, Université de Lyon 2

International Relations

Sergio Caballero, Universidad de Deusto

Detlef Nolte, GIGA – German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Innovating Symposia

Rodrigo Rodrigues, Universidad de Salamanca                     

Emerson Urizzi Cervi, Universidade Federal do Paraná

President

Manuel Alcántara Sáez

General secretary

Francisco Sánchez López

Members

Román Álvarez Rodríguez

Ignacio Berdugo Gómez de la Torre

Miguel Carrera Troyano

Ángel Baldomero Espina Barrio

Mercedes García Montero

José María Hernández Díaz

Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti,

Francisca Noguerol Jiménez

Emilio Prieto de los Mozos

Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo

Julio Sánchez Gómez

José Manuel Santos