2007: Elected Secretary General of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
2012: Re-elected Secretary General of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
2017: Re-elected Secretary General of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference
Introduction to Altaic Studies and the PIAC: New Developments in International Altaic Studies (originally written in 2007, slightly revised 2019)
Participation:
- 34th Meeting, 1991: (President)
- 37th Meeting, 1994:
- 40th Meeting, 1997:
- 49th Meeting, 2006: (President)
- 50th Meeting, 2007:
- 51st Meeting, 2008: “Traveling the Steppe in the 18th Century: Weal, Woe and Wonder“
- 52nd Meeting, 2009: “Türkmen Villains and the Victorious Banners of the Khivan Khaqan”
- 53rd Meeting, 2010: “Green Knowledge. Ottoman Manuscripts on Botany and Agriculture”
- 54th Meeting, 2011:
- 55th Meeting, 2012: “Multilingualism in the Central Asian republics after 1991. A hierarchy of Sorts“
- 56th Meeting, 2013: “”
- 57th Meeting, 2014:
- 58th Meeting, 2015: “The Crimea in Focus. Turkological Research achievements of the Past in the Light of the Present.”
- 59th Meeting, 2016:
- 60th Meeting, 2017:
- 61st Meeting, 2018:
- 62nd Meeting, 2019: “Moghul Tribal Tradition According to Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi“