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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=httphttps://querytimesmachine.nytimes.com/memtimesmachine/archive-free1902/10/22/118482945.pdf?_r=1&res=9901EEDD1E3DEE32A25751C2A9669D946397D6CF|title=Americanists in dispute – Lively Controversy over Coining the Word "Amerind"|date=October 22, 1902|publishernewspaper=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdateaccess-date=2009-01-13 | format=PDF}}</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=0719009685978-0-7190-0968-6|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=bhq8AAAAIAAJ&dqq=%22International+Congress+of+Americanists%22&printsec=frontcover}}</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 iswas 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."