ANNUAL MEETING FORMAT

The IAS Leadership has voted to alternate holding the Annual Meeting in person and online as follows:

2025: Meeting will be held online. Papers will be available before and after the meetings; live-streamed discussions will take place January 10-11.

2026: Meeting will be held in person in Berkeley, CA on January 9-10.

2027: Meeting will be held online. Papers will be available before and after the meetings; live-streamed discussions will take place January 8-9.

2028: Meeting will be held in person in Berkeley, CA on January 7-8.

65th Annual Meeting,
Jan 10th to Jan 11th 2025

The 65th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies will be returning to an online format in January 2025. 

Presentations, Posters, Livestreams, and links to Zoom meetings will be available on the website, but only to Registered attendees while logged in.

The deadline for submitting a paper or poster proposal has been extended to December 2, 2024.

For details, please see the 65th Annual Meeting page

Past meetings

Programs and Abstracts

  • 64th Annual Meeting
    2024: PDF icon Program (1.28 MB)
  • 63rd Annual Meeting
    2023: PDF icon Program (339.71 KB)
  • 62nd Annual Meeting
    2022: PDF icon Program (313.9 KB)
  • 61st Annual Meeting
    2021: PDF icon Program (156.54 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (168.19 KB)
  • 60th Annual Meeting
    2020: PDF icon Program (585.36 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (162.92 KB)
  • 59th Annual Meeting
    2019: PDF icon Program (548.22 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (168.91 KB)
  • 58th Annual Meeting
    2018: PDF icon Program (598.35 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (165.09 KB)
  • 57th Annual Meeting
    2017: PDF icon Program (602.32 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (186.08 KB)
  • 56th Annual Meeting
    2016: PDF icon Program (117.03 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (153.75 KB)
  • 55th Annual Meeting
    2015: PDF icon Program (117.45 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (185.47 KB)
  • 54th Annual Meeting
    2014: PDF icon Program (103.17 KB) PDF icon Abstracts (182.55 KB)
  • 53rd Annual Meeting
    2013: PDF icon Program (121.29 KB)
  • 52nd Annual Meeting
    2012: PDF icon Program (120.79 KB)
  • 51st Annual Meeting
    2011: PDF icon Program (102.27 KB)
  • 50th Annual Meeting
    2010: PDF icon Program (172.67 KB)
  • Previous Annual Meetings
    1969 to 2009: PDF icon Program (3.54 MB)

Videos of Selected Talks

Embedded thumbnail for CONCLUSIONS FROM CHAVIN DE HUANTAR: 30 YEARS OF LESSONS FROM A SECRETIVE SITE (PART I)
2023 Keynote Talk by Dr. John Rick
CONCLUSIONS FROM CHAVIN DE HUANTAR: 30 YEARS OF LESSONS FROM A SECRETIVE SITE (PART I)
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2023 Keynote Talk by Dr. John Rick
CONCLUSIONS FROM CHAVIN DE HUANTAR: 30 YEARS OF LESSONS FROM A SECRETIVE SITE (PART II)
Embedded thumbnail for Erasures, Revisions, and Histories in Andean Studies
2021 Keynote Talk by Rachel O'Toole
Erasures, Revisions, and Histories in Andean Studies
Embedded thumbnail for W'akas, plazas, and conquest: The children of Pariaqaqa and the Inka empire (Huarochirí, Peru)
2020 Keynote Talk by Carla Hernández Garavito
W'akas, plazas, and conquest: The children of Pariaqaqa and the Inka empire (Huarochirí, Peru)
Embedded thumbnail for Agricultural oasis at the southern puna: Ancient water management in Antofagasta de la Sierra (Argentina)
2020 Travel grantee talk by Lorena Grana, Marcos Quesada, and Victoria Arébalos presented by Lorena Grana
Agricultural oasis at the southern puna: Ancient water management in Antofagasta de la Sierra (Argentina)
Embedded thumbnail for Archaeology and ritual at Sechin Bajo, Casma, Peru
2019 Keynote Talk by Peter Fuchs, Renate Patzschke, and Jesus Briceño, presented by Peter Fuchs
Archaeology and ritual at Sechin Bajo, Casma, Peru
Embedded thumbnail for Ocupación Wari en el Antisuyo
2019 Travel grantee talk by Javier Fonseca
Ocupación Wari en el Antisuyo
Embedded thumbnail for Where mountain and forest meet: Toward a history of people and landscape in the Eastern Andes of Chachapoyas
2018 Keynote Talk by Anna Guengerich
Where mountain and forest meet: Toward a history of people and landscape in the Eastern Andes of Chachapoyas
Embedded thumbnail for Los Morteros and Pampa de las Salinas:
2018 Travel grantee talk by Ana Cecilia Mauricio
Los Morteros and Pampa de las Salinas:
Early monumentality, environmental transformations, and the creation of a preceramic ceremonial landscape
Embedded thumbnail for Bound together, torn apart: A spatial archaeology and microhistory of forced resettlement in the colonial Andes
2017 Keynote Talk by Steve Wernke
Bound together, torn apart: A spatial archaeology and microhistory of forced resettlement in the colonial Andes
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