The Organizing Committee of the 53rd International Congress of Americanists (ICA) extends a warm greeting to the national and international academic community working in the field of studies of the American Continent. Whether the research is carried out from the perspective of a single discipline, or using a multi-disciplinary approach, the Organizing Committee invites you to participate at the 53rd ICA, to be held at the prestigious Historical Centre (Centro Histórico) in Mexico City from July 19th to July 24th 2009.

The International Congress of Americanists holds the longest interdisciplinary tradition of studies on this subject. It has been convened uninterruptedly since 1875 (when the first one was held in Nancy, France). Since1895, it is held every three years, the host city changing from country to country—and also between continents—so that an edition in Europe is followed by an edition in America, and vice versa. In the last two decades, congresses were conducted in the Netherlands (Amsterdam 1988), United States (New Orleans 1991), Sweden (Stockholm-Uppsala 1994), Ecuador (Quito 1997), Poland (Warsaw 2000), Chile (Santiago 2004), and Spain (Seville 2006.)