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WASPaLM<\/h2><\/div>
World Congresses<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”ex-full” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″ type=”vc_default” css=”.vc_custom_1575975581657{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}” bg_color_value=”#f6f6f6″][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″ css=”.vc_custom_1490190990839{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]

PAST CONGRESSES<\/h1><\/div>
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Congresses<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_pie value=”100″ label_value=”>90.000″ color_mode=”accent” css=”.vc_custom_1542877575848{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”color-title”]
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Participants<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” bg_type=”bg_color” bg_color_value=”#f6f6f6″][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Congress<\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nPlace<\/strong><\/td>\nPresident<\/strong><\/td>\nSecretaries-General<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I<\/td>\n1951<\/td>\nLondon<\/td>\nSir Lionel Whitby<\/td>\nWm. McMenemey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
II<\/td>\n1954<\/td>\nWashington<\/td>\nJohn R. Schenken<\/td>\nC. G. Culbertson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
III<\/td>\n1957<\/td>\nBrussels<\/td>\nJeanCharles Firket<\/td>\nMaurice Welsch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IV<\/td>\n1960<\/td>\nMadrid<\/td>\nAntonio Utrilla-D<\/td>\nJ. Apancio-G<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
V<\/td>\n1963<\/td>\nMexico<\/td>\nAntiago Fraga-0<\/td>\nErnesto Cervera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VI<\/td>\n1966<\/td>\nRome<\/td>\nT. DeSanctis Monaldi<\/td>\nBruno Delia Vida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VII<\/td>\n1969<\/td>\nMontreal<\/td>\nAlec C. Ritchie<\/td>\nDonald W. Penner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VIII<\/td>\n1972<\/td>\nMunich<\/td>\nMartin Nordmann<\/td>\nHermann Lommel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IX<\/td>\n1975<\/td>\nSydney<\/td>\nPeter I. A. Hendry<\/td>\nRobert A. Osborn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
X<\/td>\n1978<\/td>\nRio de Janeiro<\/td>\nJose Pinheiro<\/td>\nEvaldo Melo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XI<\/td>\n1981<\/td>\nJerusalem<\/td>\nHenry Ungar<\/td>\nEmanuel Levy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XII<\/td>\n1983<\/td>\nTokyo<\/td>\nNozomu Kosakai<\/td>\nTadashi Kawai<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XIII<\/td>\n1985v<\/td>\nBrighton<\/td>\nG.W.Pennington<\/td>\nColin C. Berry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XIV<\/td>\n1987<\/td>\nWashington<\/td>\nR.L. Breckenridge<\/td>\nTyra T. Hutchens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XV<\/td>\n1989<\/td>\nFlorence<\/td>\nGuiseppe Bugiardini<\/td>\nManfredo Fanfani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XVI<\/td>\n1991<\/td>\nVancouver<\/td>\nMichael McNeely<\/td>\nJohn Jacques\/Gino Montessori<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XVII<\/td>\n1993<\/td>\nAcapulco<\/td>\nGuillermo Santoscoy-Gomez<\/td>\nFrancisco Resano<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XVIII<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\nAuckland<\/td>\nH. Konrad Muller<\/td>\nAntony N. Barker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XIX<\/td>\n1997<\/td>\nVersailles<\/td>\nGerard Gallez<\/td>\nChristine Ferriere<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XX<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\nS\u00c3o Paulo<\/td>\nEvaldo Melo<\/td>\nMaria E. Mendes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXI<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\nDusseldorf<\/td>\nHans Reinauer<\/td>\nWilliam G. Wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXII<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\nBusan<\/td>\nHan-Ik Cho<\/td>\nOh Hun Kwo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXIII<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\nIstanbul<\/td>\nGamze Mocan Kuzey<\/td>\nArzu Sungur<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXIV<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\nKuala Lumpur<\/td>\nLai-Meng Looi<\/td>\nLaie Leslie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXV<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\nSydney<\/td>\nBeverley Rowbotham<\/td>\nChris Hemmings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXVI<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\nUnited States<\/td>\nJohn Tomaszewski<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXVII<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\nJagdish Butany<\/td>\nNone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXVIII<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\nMexico<\/td>\nRoberto Ruiz-Arenas<\/td>\nAlberto V\u00e1zquez-Mellado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXIX<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\nKyoto<\/td>\nMasami Murakami<\/td>\nToshiyuki\u00a0Yamada<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Website<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXX<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\nXi\u2019an, China<\/td>\nHong Shang<\/td>\nWei Cui\u00a0 \u00a0Program<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXXI<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\nPunta del Este, Uruguay<\/td>\nRaquel Ballest\u00e9<\/td>\nWalter Alallon Save the date<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXXII<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\nSao Paulo, Brasil<\/td>\nCrist\u00f3v\u00e3o Luis Pitangueira Mangueira, Walter Alallon<\/td>\nProgram<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXXIII<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\nAntalya, Turkey<\/td>\nOzkan Alatas<\/span><\/td>\nWebsite<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XXXIV<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\nPune, India<\/td>\nWalter Alallon<\/td>\nWebsite<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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