65th Meeting Astana, 2023: Programme

Sunday, July 30th, 2023

Daytime Arrival

19:00 – 21:00 — Welcome Reception
Hosted by the International Turkic Academy
Manna Restaurant (47 Mängilik El).

Monday, July 31st, 2023

07:30 – 08:30 — Breakfast at Hotel
09:00 — Bus to Nazarbayev University

09:00 – 10:30 Conference Registration
10:30 — 11:15

(Room C3.1010)

Opening Ceremony

  • Opening remarks by Dr. Uli Schamiloglu, President of the 65th annual meeting of the PIAC
  • Welcome speech by Dr. Shahin Mustafayev, President of the International Turkic Academy
  • Welcome speech by Dr. Loretta O’Donnell, Acting Provost of Nazarbayev University
  • Welcome speech by Dr. Anton Desiatnikov, Acting Dean of the School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University
  • Welcome speech by Dr. Yerden Kazhybek, President of the 36th annual meeting of the PIAC held in Almaty (1993)
  • Welcome speech by Dr. Oliver Corff, Secretary-General of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)
11:15 — 11:45 PIAC Medal Award Ceremony

12:00 — 13:30 — Coffee Break (with buffet)
С3 vestibule (next to Room 1010)

13:30 – 16:00
(Room C3.1010)
Confessions
16:00 — 17:00 Keynote Address

Dr. Shahin Mustafayev, President of the International Turkic Academy, “Recent Discoveries of New Orkhon Inscriptions in Mongolia”

17:00 — 18:30 Panel 1. Cultural History of Inner Asia.
Chair: Dr. Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
17:00 — 17:20 Guljamal Djamankulova (Zhusup Balasagun Kyrgyz National University), “Ilteris Kutlug Kagan — In Written Sources”
17:20 — 17:40 Ma Xiaolin (Nankai University), “Chinese sources on the Mongol Shamans in the Yuan Court”
17:40 — 18:00 Qiu Zhirong (Renmin University of China), “Migration and Identity: An Ölberli family in China in the 13–14 centuries”
18:00 — 18:20 Alice Crowther (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), “The Atlas of the Mukden Hunting Grounds (Shengjing weichang quantu 盛京圍場 全圖) in the Chinese collections of the Collège de France”
18:30 Bus to dinner (departing from C3 parking entrance)
19:00 — 21:00 Dinner
21:00 (Return to the hotel, on one’s own)

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

07:30 – 08:30 — Breakfast at Hotel
09:00 — Bus to Nazarbayev University

09:30 — 10:30
(Room C3.1010)
Panel 2. The Lost Heritage
Chair: Oliver Corff (PIAC)
09:30 — 09:50 Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, “Forgotten Manuscripts and Other Sino-Barbarica from Louis Ligeti’s Unpublished Works”
09:50 — 10:10 Junko Miyawaki-Okada (Toyo Bunko), “Galdan Boshoqtu Khan’s Mother was a Khoshuud, Not a Torghuud”
10:10 — 10:30 Hartmut Walravens (International ISMN Agency), “On the Tracks of a Lost Book”
10:40 — 12:00 Panel 3. Sources and Traditions
Chair: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele (Freie Universität Berlin)
10:40 — 11:00 Pierre Marsone (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), “The Sacrifices of the Khitan and Sacred Mountains in Khitan Culture
11:00 — 11:20 Saule Tazhibayeva (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University), “New Sources for Study of the Kazahstani Turkish Community”
11:20 — 11:40 Michal Schwarz (Masaryk University) & Ondřej Srba (Masaryk University), “Data collecting and analytic approaches towards the oral memory of the human-landscape relations in the Mongolian Altai”
11:40 — 12:00 Zsuzsanna Olach (Johan) (Jagiellonian University), “New sources in Karaim language history: The Karaim Bible translations”

12:00 — 13:30 — Coffee Break (with buffet)
С3 vestibule (next to Room 1010)

13:30 — 14:30
(Room C3.1010)
Panel 4. Issues in Interpreting Turkic Languages
Chair: Funda Güven (Nazarbayev University)
13:30 — 13:50 Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki), “Turkic languages of Russia: Current issues of taxonomy and vitality”
13:50 — 14:10 Raushangul Mukusheva (Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan University), “The features of Turkic proverbs and its parallels in European Languages”
14:10 — 14:30 Murat Işık (Szeged University), “The Interpretation of Infinitival Paronomastic Usage in Biblical Hebrew within Karaim Bible Translations”
14:40 — 16:20 Panel 5. Interpreting Sources in Altaic Languages
Chair: Saule Tazhibayeva (L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University)
14:40 — 15:00 Erbol Munai (L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University), “Lexical-Semantic Analysis of occupational names in Temür Qutlugh Khans’ yarlïğ”
15:00 — 15:20 Liu Ge (Shaanxi Normal University), “A General Survey of the Conditional Suffixes in 82 Uighur Contracts”
15:20 — 15:40 Haruna Tanikawa (Waseda University), “Mongolian as a Lingua franca: Documents sent from Russia to Khalkha Mongolia during the Qing period in The Mongolian National Central Archives: Data collecting and analytic approaches towards the oral memory of the human-landscape relations in the Mongolian Altai”
15:40 — 16:00 Kyoko Maezono (independent scholar), “Case Suffix ‑Ø in Mongolian and Manju”
16:00 — 16:20 Assyltas Kaltenova (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University), “Contrastive analysis of food industry terms in Kazakh, English, and Russian languages on the basis of legislative documents”
16:30 — 17:30 Tour of Nazarbayev University campus (optional)
18:30 Bus to dinner (departing from C3 parking entrance)
19:00 — 21:00 Dinner
21:00 (Return to the hotel, on one’s own)

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023

07:30 – 08:30 — Breakfast at Hotel
09:00 — Bus Departure for Excursion

10:00 — 18:00 Excursion (with break for lunch during the excursion)

  • Alzhir
  • National Museum
  • Bayterek
19:00 — 21:00 Dinner
21:00 (Return to the hotel, on one’s own)

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

07:30 – 08:30 — Breakfast at Hotel
09:00 — Bus to Nazarbayev University

09:30 — 10:50
(Room C3.1010)
Panel 6. Sources for Chinggisid History
Chair: Halit Akarca (Nazarbayev University)
09:30 — 09:50 Emma Usmanova (Buketov Karaganda University), “The mausoleum of Jochi Khan as legacy of the Sufi movement in Central Asia”
09:50 — 10:10 Uli Schamiloglu (Nazarbayev University), “Contextualizing the Yarlıqs from the Golden Horde and the Later Golden Horde”
10:10 — 10:30 Sándor Papp (Szeged University), “Sources to the eastern diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire (15th -17th centuries)”
10:30 — 10:50 Barbara Kellner-Heinkele (Freie Universitat Berlin), “Steppe Diplomacy: The Kazakh Lesser Horde and its Neighbours in the Mid-18th Century”
11:00 — 12:00 Panel 7. Sources for Traditional Altaic Religions
Chair: Junko Miyawaki-Okada (Toyo Bunko)
11:00 — 11:20 Johannes Reckel (Georg August Universität Göttingen / Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek), “Sacred Animal, Gods and Men in the Rock Art of Central Asia”
11:20 — 11:40 Michael Knüppel (Arctic Studies Center (ASC), Liaocheng University), Dæmonologia Tuvinica – names and concepts of “intermediary beings” in Tyvan language and culture”
11:40 — 12:00 David Somfai Kara (Nazarbayev University), “The Majmū‘at ul-tawārih. A Sūfī chronicle from the Farghāna Valley and the Kirghiz Epic Tradition”

12:00 — 13:30 — Coffee Break (with buffet)
С3 vestibule (next to Room 1010)

13:30 — 15:10
(Room C3.1010)
Panel 8. New Sources for Altaic Studies
Chair: Dávid Somfai Kara (Nazarbayev University)
13:30 — 13:50 Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki), “Amuric—a new source for Altaic Studies”
13:50 — 14:10 Sami Honkasalo (University of Helsinki), Pui Yiu Szeto (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) & Chingduang Yurayong (University of Helsinki), “Quantification of verbal events: A new perspective for studying convergence and divergence across Altaic languages”
14:10 — 14:30 Julie Lefort (Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale (CRLAO), Paris), “Turkic Vocabulary in Dongxiang Mongolian: A Possible Substrate?”
14:30 — 14:50 Ding Shiqing (Minzu University), “The conservation of Altai language resources in China: Current situation and problems”
14:50 — 15:10 Oliver Corff (PIAC), “Defining the New Normal: Transformations of Lexicon and Grammar in Two Manju Dictionaries”
15:30 — 17:00 PIAC Business Meeting
18:30 Bus to dinner (departing from C3 parking entrance)
19:00 — 21:00 Dinner
21:00 (Return to the hotel, on one’s own)

Friday, August 4ᵗʰ, 2023

Breakfast
Daytime: Individual Departure