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{{Short description|International academic conference}}
The '''International Congress of Americanists''' ('''ICA''') is an international [[academic organizationconference]] whofor [[research]] in [[multidisciplinary]] studies of the [[Americas|American Continent]]. 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.<ref name="53ica">{{cite web|url=http://www.53ica.com/welcome.html|title=Welcome to 53°International Congress of Americanists|publisher=53ica.com|accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225073230/http://www.53ica.com/welcome.html|archive-date=2008-12-25}}</ref> Congress members come from a variety of disciplines, including, anthropolgyanthropology, archaeology, art, education, economy, geography, history, human rights, law, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, and urban studies. The congress' stated goal is: “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”.<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.53ica.com/History.html|title=The International Congress of Americanists , 1875-&ndash;2006 |publisher=53ica.com|accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225192726/http://www.53ica.com/History.html|archive-date=2008-12-25}}</ref>
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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 Indian]]s.<ref name="Savoie">{{cite journal|last=Savoie|first=Donat|title=Emile Petitot (1838&ndash;1916)|journal=Arctic|publisher=aina.ucalgary.ca|location=Ottawa|volume=35|issue=3|pages=446–447|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-3-446.pdf|doi=10.14430/arctic2352|year=1982|access-date=2009-01-13|archive-date=2009-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318024346/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-3-446.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Precipitated by a comment from [[Franz Boas]], a "lively controversy" occurred at the 1902 conference in [[New York City]] over the coined word "[[Amerind (people)|Amerind]]".<ref name="Lively">{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/10/22/118482945.pdf|title=Americanists in dispute – Lively Controversy over Coining the Word "Amerind"|date=October 22, 1902|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2009-01-13 }}</ref> At the 1910 session in [[Mexico City]], [[Marcos E. Becerra]] presented a paper on [[Hernán Cortés|Hernán Cortés's]] 1524–25 expedition to [[Honduras#Etymology|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]].<ref name="Hemming">{{cite book|last=Hemming|first=John Henry |title=The Frontier After a Decade of Colonisation: 44th International Congress of Americanists, Manchester, 1982|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1985|pages=1|isbn=978-0-7190-0968-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhq8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22International+Congress+of+Americanists%22}}</ref> 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 [[Mexico|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."
==List of congresses==
 
==Dates and locations==
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# 1875, Nancy
# 1877, Luxembourg
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# 1886, Turin
# 1888, Berlin
# 1890, Paris
# 1892, Huelva
# 1894, Stockholm
# 1895, Mexico City
# 1900, Paris
# 1902, New York
# 1904, Stuttgart
# 1906, Quebec
# 1908, Vienna
# 1910 (Firts Part), Buenos Aires; 1910 (SecondPart Part1),; <br/>Mexico City (Part 2)
# 1912, London
# 1915, Washington
# 1922, Rio de Janeiro
# 1924 (First Part), The Hague (Part 1); 1924<br/>Göteborg (SecondPart Part2), Göteborg
# 1926, Rome
# 1928, New York
# 1930, Hamburg
# 1932, La Plata
# 1935, Seville
# 1939, Mexico City (Part 1); <br/>Lima (Part 2)<ref name="nature">{{cite journal|title=International Congress of Americanists in Mexico City| volume=144|issue=3642|doi=10.1038/144319c0|journal=Nature|page=319|year=1939|doi-access=free}}</ref>
# 1939 (First Part), Mexico City; 1939 (Second Part), Lima
# 1947, Paris
# 1949, New York
# 1952, Cambridge
# 1954, SaoSão Paulo
# 1956, Copenhagen
# 1958, San Jose de Costa Rica
# 1960, Vienna
# 1962, Mexico City
# 1964, Madrid-Barcelona-Seville Madrid–Barcelona–Seville
# 1966, Mar del Plata
# 1968, Stuttgart-MunichStuttgart–Munich
# 1970, Lima
# 1972, Rome-Geneve Rome–Geneve
# 1974, Mexico City
# 1976, Paris
# 1979, Vancouver
# 1982, Manchester<ref name="britac">{{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/intl/44thcongress.cfm|title=44th International Congress of Americanists: Past Awards|publisher=britac.ac.uk|access-date=2009-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528210034/http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/intl/44thcongress.cfm|archive-date=2011-05-28|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
# 1982, Manchester
# 1985, Bogota
# 1988, Amsterdam
# 1991, New Orleans
# 1994, Stockholm-GöteborgStockholm–Göteborg
# 1997, Quito
# 2000, Warsaw
# 2003, Santiago de Chile<ref name="americanistas">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanistas.uchile.cl/ing/set_ing.html|title=Welcome to Chile|publisher=americanistas.uchile.cl|accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406161730/http://www.americanistas.uchile.cl/ing/set_ing.html|archive-date=2008-04-06|url-status=dead}}</ref>
# 2006, Seville<ref name="52ica">{{cite web|url=http://www.52ica.com/index.html|title=Welcome to 52º International Congress of Americanists, Seville 2006|publisher=52ica.com|accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226044936/http://www.52ica.com/index.html|archive-date=2008-12-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
# 2009, Mexico City
# 2012, Vienna<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/|title=54 International Congress of Americanists: Building Dialogues in the Americas|publisher=[[University of Vienna]], [[Austrian Latin America Institute]], [[Museum of Ethnology, Vienna]]|access-date=2010-10-06}}</ref>
# 2015, San Salvador, El Salvador
# 2018, [[Salamanca]]
# 2023, [[Foz do Iguaçu]]<ref>[https://ica2021.unicentro.br/en/ 57th Congress of Americanists], retrieved am 2023-09-01.</ref>
# 2025, Novi Sad
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Commons cat|Americas}}
 
==External links==
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* [http://ead.lib.uchicago.edu/view.xqy?id=ICU.SPCL.AMERICANISTS&c=i Guide to the International Congress of Americanists Records, 1949-1953]
* [http://www.ica55.ufg.edu.sv/public/first-call-55ica.pdf First Call for Papers 55th ICA] accessed May 10, 2014
 
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