Annual Meetings

ANNUAL MEETING FORMAT

The IAS Leadership has voted to alternate holding the Annual Meeting in person and online as follows; currently there is no hybrid presentation or attendance option.

2026: 66th Annual Meeting will be held in person only in Berkeley, CA on January 9-10.

2027: 67th Annual Meeting will be held online only. Papers will be available before and after the meetings; live-streamed discussions will take place January 8-9.

2028: 68th Annual Meeting will be held in person in Berkeley, CA on January 7-8.

66th Annual Meeting,
Jan 9th to Jan 10th 2026

We are delighted to announce that the 66th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies will be returning to an in-person format in 2026! The 66th Annual Meeting will be held in Berkeley, California from January 9th to January 10th, 2026. Read more about the meetings and registration!

For details, please see the 66th Annual Meeting page

Past meetings

Programs and Abstracts

65th Annual Meeting
2025: Program (229.7 KB)
64th Annual Meeting
2024: Program (1.28 MB)
63rd Annual Meeting
2023: Program (339.71 KB)
62nd Annual Meeting
2022: Program (313.9 KB)
61st Annual Meeting
2021: Program (156.54 KB) Abstracts (168.19 KB)
60th Annual Meeting
2020: Program (585.36 KB) Abstracts (162.92 KB)
59th Annual Meeting
2019: Program (548.22 KB) Abstracts (168.91 KB)
58th Annual Meeting
2018: Program (598.35 KB) Abstracts (165.09 KB)
57th Annual Meeting
2017: Program (602.32 KB) Abstracts (186.08 KB)
56th Annual Meeting
2016: Program (117.03 KB) Abstracts (153.75 KB)
55th Annual Meeting
2015: Program (117.45 KB) Abstracts (185.47 KB)
54th Annual Meeting
2014: Program (103.17 KB) Abstracts (182.55 KB)
53rd Annual Meeting
2013: Program (121.29 KB)
52nd Annual Meeting
2012: Program (120.79 KB)
51st Annual Meeting
2011: Program (102.27 KB)
50th Annual Meeting
2010: Program (172.67 KB)
Previous Annual Meetings
1969 to 2009: Program (3.54 MB)

Videos of Selected Talks

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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 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)

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2021 Keynote Talk by Rachel O'Toole

Erasures, Revisions, and Histories in Andean Studies

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2020 Keynote Talk by Carla Hernández Garavito

W'akas, plazas, and conquest: The children of Pariaqaqa and the Inka empire (Huarochirí, Peru)

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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)

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2019 Keynote Talk by Peter Fuchs, Renate Patzschke, and Jesus Briceño, presented by Peter Fuchs

Archaeology and ritual at Sechin Bajo, Casma, Peru

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2019 Travel grantee talk by Javier Fonseca

Ocupación Wari en el Antisuyo

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2018 Keynote Talk by Anna Guengerich

Where mountain and forest meet: Toward a history of people and landscape in the Eastern Andes of Chachapoyas

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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

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2017 Keynote Talk by Steve Wernke

Bound together, torn apart: A spatial archaeology and microhistory of forced resettlement in the colonial Andes