The motto is intended to build a space to reflect and discuss the complex transformations that contemporary societies go through, and how they preserve their historical, political, religious, educational, literary, social, artistic, cultural roots, among others.

The dialogues between tradition and innovation are not exhausted in the recognition of the relationships between the past and the present because they go further. These represent two guiding ideas in the formation of human history, ideas that, from time immemorial to the present, implicate each other in conversations of different tenors.

In the Americas, the traditions inherited from various practices have been essential to forge the identity of the peoples of this region; traditions that have been preserved over time and on which innovation has played a relevant role. As areas such as digitization progress, the preservation and dissemination of historical memories have been facilitated. The challenge focuses on finding a balance between taking advantage of technological innovations without traditions losing their authentic value or their link to the cultural identity of the communities and the places they are inhabited.

The 59th ICA wants to emphasize three lines. The first, “Technologies: Power, Culture and Society”, analyzes emerging technologies and how they reconfigure power structures and create new dynamics of all kinds, while leading to challenges for democracy, global stability, the practices of daily life, access and integrity of information and of regulatory frameworks, among others.

The second, “Territories, regeneration and climate change”, raises the environmental crisis and its impact on human communities and nature. The Americas, with their geographical diversity, face the challenge of regenerating ecosystems that have been altered by the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. Likewise, issues such as inequality, diversity, governance, rurality, urbanization, among others, require the adoption of policies that consider their own dynamics in the territory. Forms of local and ancestral knowledge are opportunities to strengthen the connections between modernization, traditions in the care of the land and of human life.

And, the third, "always past", allows us to understand that societies are built on the inheritance of their stories. The historical memory, the struggles for identity and the persistence of social differences are current issues in the discourses of the 21st century. The past becomes a force that influences the decisions of the present and, without a doubt, those of the future.

These three lines of the 59th ICA provide a comprehensive framework to understand the complex connections between historical, individual or collective memories, and changes in the Americas.

The Congress seeks not only to strengthen the interdisciplinary dialogue between the sciences, disciplines and knowledge, but also to explore why tradition and innovation, if they dynamically intersect, offer sustainable and equitable solutions that aim for the Americas to be a place of hope and A better world to live.