Committees
Standing Committee of the International Congress of Americanists - Assets to 2026
- Walter Raudales, El Salvador. (President 2025-2027)
- Manuel Alcantara Saez, Spain. (Vice President 2025-2027)
- Bojana Kovačević Petrović, Serbia. (Secretary 2025-2027)
- Marcio Fernandes, Brazil
- Jan-Ake Alvarsson, Sweden
- Milka Castro Lucic, Chile
- Kees Den Boer, Netherlands
- John R. Fisher, UK
- Elio Masferrer Kan, Mexico
- Horacio Cerutti Guldberg, Mexico
- Elizabeth Diaz Brenis, Mexico
- Jorge R. Gonzalez Marmolejo, Mexico
- Maria Luisa Laviana, Spain
- Francisco Sanchez, Spain
- Martina Kaller-Dietrich, Austria
- Segundo E. Moreno Yánez, Ecuador
- Mariusz Ziolkowski, Poland
- Catalina Machuca, El Salvador
- Gisele Onuki, Brazil
- Dejan Mihailović, Monterrey Technological Institute, Mexico
Local Organizing Committee
- President of the 59th International Congress of Americanists (ICA 2027), Porfirio Cardona Restrepo, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
- General Secretary of the 59th International Congress of Americanists (ICA 2027), Freddy Santamaría Velasco, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
- Manager of the 59th International Congress of Americanists (ICA 2027), Alma Nury López, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
- Rector General Pontificia Bolivariana University, Diego Marulanda Diaz, Medellin, Colombia
Liaison Committee
- Bojana Kovačević Petrović, DeNovisad University, Serbia
- Manuel Alcántara, International Center for Political and Social Studies, Panama
- Marcio Fernandes, Unicentro, Brazil
- Mariusz Ziólkowski, Center for Andean Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland
- Walter Raudales, Francisco Gavidia University, El Salvador
Scientific Committee
Committee Coordinator
- Bojana Kovačević Petrović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
co-coordinators
- Eduardo Deves-Valdés, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Nino Rosania, University of the Atlantic; National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
- Thomas Fischer, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany
Area Coordinators
- Alexis Berg-Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España
- Alexis Dantas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Alicia Krikorian Daveloza, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
- Ana Cecilia Escudero, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
- Aneta De La Mar Ikonomova, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bulgaria-Colombia
- Ángel Rivera Novoa, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
- Beatriz Elena Rave Herrera, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
- César Apareciddo Nunes, Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
- César Augusto Nunes, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie de Campinas-SP, Brasil
- Damián Pachón Soto, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
- Diana Elvira Soto Arango, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Colombia
- Diana Soler Osuna, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia
- Edith González Bernal, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Colombia
- Élodie Vaudry, Sorbonne Université, Francia
- Eric Diaz, Advisor & Enabler Longevity and Silver Economy Ecosystem, Chile-España
- Eugenia Rodríguez Blanco, Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos y Sociales, Panamá
- Eugenio Llamas Pombo, Universidad de Salamanca, España
- Felipe Arocena, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Flávia Biroli, Universidad de Brasilia, Brasil
- Francesca Columbus, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brasil-Italia
- Gordana Lalic Krstin, Universidad de Novi Sad, Serbia
- Jochen Dreher, Universidad de Konstanz, Alemania
- Johannes Maerk, Universidad de Viena, Austria
- Jorge J. Locane, Universidad de Oslo, Noruega
- Jorge Kulemeyer, Universidad Patagonia Austral, Argentina
- José del Valle, City University of New York, Estados Unidos
- Karen Cárdenas Almanza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
- Leonardo Tovar González, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colombia
- Lina Marcela González Gómez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- María Cristina Valerdi Nochebuena, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
- Mariusz Ziółkowski, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Mauricio Beuchot, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
- Mercedes García Montero, Universidad de Salamanca, España
- Norma Angélica Cuevas Velasco, Universidad Veracruzana, México
- Óscar Hugo López Rivas, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala
- Pablo Vommaro, Universidad de Buenos Aires/Clacso, Argentina
- Paola Avallone, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, Italia
- Patricia Ames, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Perú
- Paula Freire Santoro, Universidad de Sao Paulo
- Polina Golovátina-Mora, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Noruega
- Rafael Grasa Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, España
- Raisa Uribarri, Centro Internacional de Estudios Políticos y Sociales, Panamá
- Sanja Savkić Šebek, University of East Anglia, Reino Unido
- Santiago García-Jalón, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, España
- Silvana K. Figueroa-Dreher, Universidad de Konstanz, Alemania
- Stefan Peters, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen e Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ), Alemania-Colombia
- Timothy Thomson, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, Panamá
- Victor Jeifets, Universidad de San Petersburgo, Rusia
- Wooldy Edson Louidor, Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Colombia/Embajador de La República Haití en España, República de Haití
- Yuji Seki, Director General Museo Nacional de Etnología, Japón
- Yuriy Polyukhovych, Universidad Nacional Taras Shevchenko de Kyiv/Embajador de Ucrania para la República de Perú (Embajador Concurrente Colombia y Ecuador), Ucrania
Alfonso Munera, University of Cartagena, Colombia
- Alexandre Fuccille, Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil
- Alfonso Múnera, University of Cartagena, Colombia
- Amanda Wu, General Manager Sunny Colombia, China
- Bart Maddens, Leuven Catholic University (KU Leuven), Belgium
- Brigida Renoldi, CIC-Conicet, Argentina
- Daniel Saldarriaga, Bayswater, Colombia
- Daniela Ramirez Varela, Metropolitan Technological Institute, Colombia
- Débora Thomé, Brasileiro de Ensino Institute, Development and Research, Brazil
- Frank Dellmann, President of FH Munster, Germany
- Gerardine G. Botte, Texas Tech University, USA
- James Meernik, Castleberry Peace Institute, University of North Texas, United States
- Javiera Visedo Soriano, Engagement Latin America at Education New Zealand, New Zealand
- Jill E. Sherman, Lakehead University; Calareo Consortium, Canada
- Julián Prieto, University of Toronto; Executive Committee of Diploscientifica and the Network of Colombian Scientists and Researchers in Canada, Canada
- Lidia Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Lizardo Estrada Herrera, Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM)
- Luis Eduardo Vieco Maya, House of Memory Museum, Colombia
- Luisa Isidro Herrera, York University, Canada
- Magdiel Gomez Muñiz, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
- Mariana C. Marchese, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Martha Nateras, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Mexico
- Miguel Ángel Betancur Betancur, Medellín Cooperation and Investment Agency, Colombia
- Milena Mejia Vasquez, Colombia Challenge Your Knowledge, Colombia
- Monica Maria Uribe Gomez, National University of Colombia, Colombia
- Francisco Ramírez Yáñez, President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities
- Samil Yang, Emma J. Cho, directors of the Asia-Ibero-America Cultural Foundation, South Korea
- Sebastian Sayago, National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Argentina
- Sergio Escobar Solórzano, Honorary Consul of Brazil in Colombia, Brazil
- Simón Pachano, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador
- Tanoh Firmin Koffi, Javerian missionaries from Yarumal, Ivory Coast, Africa
Round Tables Committee
- Ivan Garzon Vallejo, Autonomous University of Chile, Chile
- Lorena Vasquez Gonzalez, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Colombia
- Omar Munoz Sanchez, Bolivarian Pontifical University, Colombia
Bolivarian Pontifical University Support Teams
Executive Committee 59th ICA
Medellin Section
- Santiago Acosta Maya, Vice Chancellor General
- Juan Francisco Vasquez Carvajal, multi-campus academic vice-rector
- Paula Andrea Arango Gutiérrez, Vice Chancellor of Economic and Administrative Affairs Multicampus
- Carlos Alberto Monsalve Salinas, multi-campus pastoral vice-rector
- Ana Cecilia Escudero Atehortúa, Vice-Rector for Multi-Campus Research
Bucaramanga Section
- Neftalí Ariza García, Bucaramanga Sectional Rector
- Hugo Armando Rodríguez Vera, Academic Vice Chancellor
- Juan Pablo Galvis Gamboa, Pastoral Vice Chancellor
- Nelson Enrique Moreno Gómez, Vice-Rector for Administrative and Economic Affairs
Montería Section
- Juan Camilo Restrepo Tamayo, Montería Sectional Rector
- Roger Goez Gutiérrez, academic vice-rector
- Anor Ferney Martinez Vidal, Pastoral Vice Chancellor
- Víctor Jaime Valle Quiroz, Vice-Rector Administrative and Economic Affairs
Palmyra Section
- Juan Gonzalo Arboleda Arboleda, Palmira Sectional Rector
- Jimmy Jailer Quintero Valderrama, Teaching and Research Director
- Juan Carlos Pérez Ramos, Director of Social Projection
- Javier Vásquez Zuluaga, Director of Administrative and Economic Affairs
Directors of Medellin
- Jorge Eduardo Santos, Director of Multicampus Planning
- Jorge Alberto Calle D’Alleman, Director of Multicampus Extension
- Karina Sterling Zuluaga, Director of Communications and Public Relations
Deans of the Faculties of Medellin
- Lina María Cano Vásquez, Dean of the School of Education and Pedagogy
- Idi Amin Isaac Millan, Dean of the School of Engineering
- Omar Muñoz Sánchez, Dean of the School of Social Sciences
- Rosario Barguil Rodgers, Dean of the School of Health Sciences
- Jaime Alberto Arrubla Paucar, Dean of the School Law and Political Science
- Johman Esneider Carvajal Godoy, Dean of the Theology-Philosophy and Humanities School
- Beatriz Elena Rave Herrera, Dean of the School of Architecture and Design
- Juan Alejandro Cortes Ramírez, Dean of the School Economy, Administration and Business
