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:
- 13th Meeting, 1970
- 17th Meeting, 1974: “Eine krimtatarische Quelle zur Lage der Nogayer im 18. Jahrhundert“
- 20th Meeting, 1977
- 23rd Meeting, 1980: „Waqāyiʿ at-Turkumān“, eine bisher wenig beachtete Quelle zur Geschichte der Turkmenen
- 27th Meeting, 1984
- 33rd Meeting, 1990
- 34th Meeting, 1991: (President)
- 37th Meeting, 1994:
- 38th Meeting, 1995: St. Petersburg and the Steppe Peoples. Diplomatic Correspondences of the 18th Century from the Arkhiv Vnešnej Politiki Rossijskoj Imperii in Moscow
- 40th Meeting, 1997:
- 41st Meeting, 1998
- 42nd Meeting, 1999
- 43rd Meeting, 2000
- 44th Meeting, 2001: “Abu l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan and the Famous and Infamous Women“
- 46th Meeting, 2003: Nogays and Russians co-existence and confrontation
- 49th Meeting, 2006: (President)
- 50th Meeting, 2007: Images of Tatars in 16th Century Europe
- 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: Feasting with the Khivan Khans
- 55th Meeting, 2012: “Multilingualism in the Central Asian republics after 1991. A hierarchy of Sorts“
- 56th Meeting, 2013: All about Eve. Women in Abu l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan’s Shajara-i Türk
- 57th Meeting, 2014: “New Routes of Discovery and Research: Railways (Mid-19th – Early 20th Century)“
- 58th Meeting, 2015: “The Crimea in Focus. Turkological Research achievements of the Past in the Light of the Present.”
- 59th Meeting, 2016: “Remembering Denis Sinor (1916-2011)“
- 60th Meeting, 2017:
- 61st Meeting, 2018:
- 62nd Meeting, 2019: “Moghul Tribal Tradition According to Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi“
- 64th Meeting, 2022: “Itineraries among the Turkic peoples of Western Siberia: The formative years of young V. V. Radlov (1837–1918)“