Monthly Archives: September 2022

Obituaries

Dear Reader,

obituaries are an important means to share the memories of a person who has passed away. The writer of the obituary shares his or her knowledge of the deceased and, very often, shares the perceptions and sentiments related to that person. An obituary is thus a pathway to contribute to collective memory by sharing these individual observations and sentiments.

In a scholarly environment, collective memory is the essence of all academic pursuit. Without the achievements (and occasional errors) of our predecessors, meaningful reasoning would be simply impossible. It is thus understandable that writing obituaries is one of the many tasks of a scholar who takes history as the most important source of progress. In this tradition, PIAC members dedicate obituaries to their fellow members who have passed away.

References to obituaries dedicated to the following scholars, but published outside the domain of altaist.org, were added recently.

Oliver Corff, September 13, 2022

Previous Meetings: Programme of 16th Meeting, Ankara 1973

Dear Reader,

from the archives of Györges Hazai the editor could obtain the Programme of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Ankara 1973. There are some minor differences between this programme and the Proceedings; not all  speakers in the programme appear with their contributions in the Proceedings, but this quite a normal case as usually not all participants submit their papers for publication in written form, and sometimes the editors take an additional step of accepting only a selection of papers offered by the contributors for the Proceedings.

Oliver Corff, September 06, 2022

Previous Meetings: Programme of 14th Meeting, Szeged 1971

Dear Reader,

from the archives of Györges Hazai the editor could obtain the programme of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Szeged 1971. There are some minor differences between this programme and the Proceedings; not all contributors to the proceedings appear as speakers in the programme, and vice versa.

Oliver Corff, September 03, 2022.

Previous Meetings: List of Participants and Programme of 13th Meeting, Strasbourg 1970

Dear Reader,

recently, the editor obtained from the archive of the Hungarian scholar György Hazai a copy of the original list of participants and programme of the 13th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, held in Strasbourg (France) in 1970. You can follow either link; the first one leads directly to list and programme, the second one includes information on the proceedings and a short introduction by I. Melikoff, the President of that Meeting.

Oliver Corff, September 03, 2022.

 

Report of the 64th Annual Meeting Budapest 2022 Available

Dear Reader,

It was a challenging experience for the organizers to organize the 64th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference at short notice in Budapest from August 21 to August 26, 2022. Yet all’s well that ends well, and this can be said with all justification about this Meeting.

The Report of the 64th Annual Meeting is now available.

Oliver Corff, September 1st, 2022.