1997 PIAC Officers
Secretary General: Denis Sinor
Honorary President: Sechin Jagchid
President: David B. Honey
Vice-President: David C. Wright
Organizing Committee:
David B. Honey, Tricia Honey, Paul Hyer, David Montgomery, David C. Wright
Sponsoring Institutions
Office of the Academic Vice-President
David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
General Education and Honors
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
College of Humanities
Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Department of History
PIAC: Schedule
Monday, June 2: Arrival
4:00 — 5:00 Registration, Provo Park Hotel
6:00 Dinner, Provo Park Hotel (Balsam Room)
Tuesday, June 3:
7:15 Breakfast (Thistle Room)
8:00 Opening Ceremony (Phlox Room)
Welcome: Secretary General Denis Sinor
Honorary President Sechin Jagchid
President David Honey
8:30 — 10:00 Confessions, Part One
10:00 — 10:30 Break (Phlox Room)
10:30 — 12:00 Confessions, Part One
12:00 — 1:00 Lunch
1:30 — 3:00 Session A: History/Literature 1 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Okada, Hidehiro
Erdy, Miklos. “Northern Barbarians: The Spread of Their Major Funerary Customs Throughout Eurasia.”
Wright, David C. “What’s in a Name? Would a Hun by Any Other Name still be a Hsiung-nu?”
Drompp, Michael. “Steppe Empires and ‘Cycles’ of Nomadic Power: The Early Turkic Evidence.”
1:30 — 3:00 Session B: Linguistics 1 (Limber Room)
Chair: Berta, Arpad.
Vovin, Alexander. “Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese: the Morphological Evidence for Genetic Relationship.”
Solntseva, Nina. “The Pluarility in Mongolian and South East Asian Languages.”
Dugarov, Bayir. “The First Information on the Buriat-Mongolian Epic in the West.”
3:00 — 3:30 Break (Phlox Room)
3:30 — 5:00 Session C: History/Literature 2 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara
Sárközi, Alice. “Conquering the World: The Lingustic Legerdemain of the Mongols.”
Okada, Hidehiro. “Breaking Arrows: How Did alan Ghuua Show Up in 16th-Century Japan?”
Foltz, Richard. “The Timurid and Turko-Mongol Self-Identity of the Mughal Emperors.”
3:30 — 5:00 Session D: Lingustics 2 (Limber Room)
Chair: Solntsev, V.
Berta, Arpad. “On the Terms for ‘Sun’ in the Turkic Languages.”
Choi Han-Woo. “Notes on Some Altaic Loan-Words in Middle Korean.”
Kara, György. “Stave-rhyme, Head-rhyme, and End-rhyme in Mongolian and Uygur.”
5:30 — 5:45 Shuttle to Reception
6:00 Tour of Campus
6:30 — 8:00 Reception, BYU Museum of Art
8:00 David Montgomery, Turkish Films at Varsity Theater
9:00 Shuttle to Hotel
Wednesday, June 4:
7:15 Breakfast
8:00 — 9:00 Business Session (Phlox Room)
9:00 — 10:30 Session E: History/Literature 3 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Ercilasun, Ahmet
Décsy, Gyula. “The Turki Tribe of the Kabars and Their Name in the Central European Popular Tradition.”
Hamblin, William. “Pre-Ottoman Turks in Trans-Nilotic Africa.”
Wu, Shu-hui. “The Seventh Dalai Lama in Exile: 1729–1735.”
10:30 — 10:45 Break
10:45 — 12:15 Session F: Linguistics 3 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Kara, György
Vasiliev, D. “History of Researching Old Runic Inscriptions from the Altai.”
Alpatov, V. “N. Poppe: Some Aspects of His Scientific Activity.”
Walravens, Hartmut: “Ferdinand Lessing and his Contribution to Altaic Studies.”
12:30 Departure for Tour of SLC, Lunch on bus
Great Salt Lake: Saltaire
3:00 Temple Square
4:00 Reception
5:15 — 6:15 Celebration of 150 Years of Utah: Legacy
6:30 — 8:30 Banquet, Joseph Smith Memorial Building
After-dinner Speaker: Sechin Jagchid, “The Historical Relationshop Between Mongolia and India.”
8:30 Departure for Provo Park Hotel
Thursday, June 5:
7:00 Breakfast
7:30 Departure for all-day trip: Moab/Arches
11:30 Lunch, Moab
4:00 Dinner, Moab
5:30 Departure for Provo
Friday, June 6:
7:15 — 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 — 10:00 Session G History/Literature 4 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Hyer, Paul
Bregel, Yuri. “Khorezm, Afghanistan, and Kashgaria, or the Mysterious Case of 4000 Khivan Soldiers.”
Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara. “Abd alGhaffar Qïrïmï: Historiography of the Crimea in the Eighteenth Century.”
Boikova, E. “Russian Military Expeditions in Mongolia in the Beginning of the XX Century.”
Kendirbaeva, Gulnar. “The Muslim Faction of the Russian Duma (1906–1917).”
8:00 — 10:00 Session H: Linguistics 4 (Limber Room)
Chair: Wang, Penglin
Saito, Yoshio. “A Computer Data Base of West Middle Mongolian.”
Zülfikar, Hamza. “Inflected Adverbial Structures from Kök Turkish to the Turkish of Turkey.”
Parlatir, İsmail. “A Comparative Study of the Implementation of the Turkish Language Reform in the Press and the Transition to Latin Characters in the Central Asian Republics.”
Solntsev, V. “On the Correlation of Causative Passive and State Category in South East Asian Languages and Altaic Languages.”
10:00 — 10:15 Break
10:15 — 12:00 Session I History/Literature 5 (Phlox Room)
Chair: Sárközi, Alice
Lam, Ruby. “Approaches of Teaching China’s Altaic Cultures in a Liberal Arts College.”
Miyawaki, Junko. “Women’s Property in the History of Nomadic, Societies.”
Meserve, Ruth. “Law and the Domestic Animals of Inner Asia.”
10:15 — 12:00 Session J Lingustics 5 (Limber Room)
Chair: Solnsteva, Nina
Ishii, Hiroshi. “Japanese and Korean Derivatives from *TAR (face).”
Wang, Penglin. “The Correspondence Between Old English l and Mongolian n.”
Rozycki, Bill. “Manchu MISU ~ Japanese MISO.”
Corff, Oliver. “A Two-Level Morphology of Modern Mongolian.”
12:00 — 1:00 Lunch
1:30 — 3:30 Session K History/Literature 6
Chair: Meserve, Ruth
Ercilasun, Ahmet. “The Clash of Fathers and Sons in Turkish Epics.”
Rebollo-Sborgi, Francesca. “The Manchu Legacy of Chinese Oral Narrative: The Role of Women Protagonists in Chinese quyi Performance.”
Honey, David B. “Two Notes on Khitan Historiography: The Fall of Po-hai and the Establishment of Tung-tan.”
Hyer, Paul. “Chinese Penetration of Mongolia: The Case of Wang T’ung-ch’un.”
Hyer, Eric. “‘The Great Game’: Mongolia Between China and Russia.”
3:30 Shuttle Departure for Mall/BYU
3:30 Free Time
6:00 Mall Pick-up/Hotel Shuttle to Honey Home (1522 N. Oak Lane)
6:30 Barbeque at Honey Home
8:30 Shuttle to Hotel
Saturday, June 7: Departure
7:00 — 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 — 11:00 Departure