67th Meeting, Gotemba 2025: Programme

Tuesday, August 26th, 2025

13:00– Arrival and Registration at the Seminar House of RINRI Institute of Ethics
18:00– Welcome Dinner

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

07:30–09:00 Breakfast at the Seminar House of RINRI Institute of Ethics
09:00–10:30 Opening Ceremony
  • Welcome Speech by the President of the 67ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the PIAC, MiyawaKi-Okada Junko 宮脇淳子
  • Welcome Speech by the President of RINRI Institute of Ethics, Maruyama Toshiaki 丸山敏秋
  • Welcome Speech by the Secretary General of the PIAC, Oliver Corff
  • Award of the PIAC Medal
10:30–12:00 Confessions I
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:30–14:15 Confessions II
* Session Chair: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele *
14:15–14:35 Junko Miyawaki-Okada 宮脇淳子: Why Altaic studies have become popular in Japan
14:35–14:40 Juha Janhunen: Remembering Nikolaj Alexandrovich Baskakov
14:40–15:00 Keynote Speech by Oliver Corff
15:00–15:20 Tea break
15:20–18:00 Paper readings A, Conference Hall
* Session Chair: Ilya Gruntov *
15:20–15:40 Arai Yukiyasu 荒井幸康: Kalmyk Language Reform, 1998–2001 — cause and aftermath —
15:40–16:00 Anna Dybo: The Tuba Language in Retrospect and Prospect
16:00–16:20 Yurong: Research on Vowel Harmony in Mongolian by Scholars within China
16:20–16:40 Yiweelqeqeg: Diachronic Study of Vowel Harmony in Chinese Loanwords in the Ordos Dialect
16:40–17:00 Tea break
* Session Chair: Saitō Yoshio 齋藤純男 *
17:00–17:20 Higuchi Kōichi 樋口康一: A Consideration on the Background of the Creation of Todo Script
17:20–17:40 Zhanseit K. Tuimebayev: Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Diplomatic Communication in Central Asia: From Past to Present (paper not presented)
17:40–18:00 Futaki Hiroshi 二木博史: On the relationship between three Oirat manuscripts of Sarayin gerel written by Radnabhadra
15:20–18:00 Paper readings B, West Room
* Session Chair: Peter Zieme *
15:20–15:40 Uli Schamiloglu: Materials Towards an Etymological Dictionary of Kazakh (I): Arabic Loanwords in Kazakh
15:40–16:00 Sherman Han: Emperor Qianlong’s Poetical Memoir of Taiwan
16:00–16:20 Sultan Tulu: On new corrections and interpretations in the Book of Dede Korkut
16:20–16:40 Michael Knüppel: Aetiological legends about the origin of flies and gnats among the peoples of Siberia
16:40–17:00 Tea break
* Session Chair: Saule Tazhibayeva *
17:00–17:20 Barbara Kellner-Heinkele: On the Tracks of Peter Simon Pallas in the Crimean Peninsula: Remarks on His Scientific Itineraries, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
17:20–17:40 Funda Güven: A Woman who Built a City next to Irtysh River: Lady Suzge
17:40–18:00 Nagamine Hiroyuki 長峰博之: On the Tārīkh-i Khānī, a Uyghur Script Source of the Timurid Period
18:00–19:00 Dinner
19:00–21:00 Movie “Saman Heaven”

Thursday, August 28th, 2025

07:30–09:00 Breakfast
09:00–12:00 Paper readings, Conference Hall
* Session Chair: Ekaterina Gruzdeva *
09:00–09:20 TodoriKi Masahiko 等々力政彦: The Persistence of Ethnic Subgroups: Kyrgys and Uigur Lineages in Tuvan Ethnohistory
09:20–09:40 Ilya Gruntov and Olga Mazo: Avoidance Practices, Female language, and the Tale of the Wise Daughter-in-Law
09:40–10:00 Peter Zieme: Notes on weather magic in an Altaic perspective — yad yadlamak —
10:00–10:20 Hacer TokyüreK: Shamanistic Remains in Buddhist Old Uighur Texts: A Philological Study on Traces of Religious Syncretism
10:20–10:40 Tea Break
* Session Chair: Michael Knüppel *
11:00–11:20 Liubov Lubsanova Abaeva: Religious Culture of the Mongolian Peoples in the Context of Retrospective and Prospective Analysis
11:20–11:40 Michał Németh: An attempt on the religious affiliation of a 15th-century Middle Kipchak translation of the Bible
11:40–12:00 Narbibish Shammayeva: Turkmen Mentality in Global World: Pro and Cons
12:00–12:20 Saijilahu: A Study on Traditional Mongolian Medical Elements in Medical Books of the Yuan Dynasty
12:30–17:30 Excursion to the eastern foot of Mt. Fuji, two Asama Shrines and Lake Yamanaka (lunch boxes provided)
18:00–19:00 Dinner
19:30–21:30 Screening of Old PIAC Photographs

Friday, August 29th, 2025

07:30–09:00 Breakfast
09:00–12:00 Paper readings, Conference Hall
* Session Chair: Michał Németh *
09:00–09:20 Bair Kovaeva: The names of rivers and mountains in Kalmyk folk songs (paper not presented)
09:20–09:40 Ellara Omakaeva: Linguocultural study of the Oirat toponymy of Russia (Republic of Kalmykia), China (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region) and Mongolia (Khovd and Uvs aimaks): semantics and etymology of oikonyms/hydronyms (paper not presented)
09:40–10:00 Enkhbat Munkhtsetseg: Function words in Manchu lexicographic representation
10:00–10:20 Evgeniya Korovina: An Etymological Dictionary of the Tungusic Languages: Archival Materials and the Potential for Online Development
10:20–10:40 Tea Break
* Session Chair: Marcel Erdal *
10:40–11:00 Fırat Başbuğ: Harnessing Phatic Capital: Small Talk as Political Strategy in Contemporary Turkish Discourse
11:00–11:20 Juha Janhunen and Ekaterina Gruzdeva: Amuric — How Altaic?
11:20–11:40 Kaisla Anna Maria Kaheinen: Samoyed-Tungusic contacts: etymological re-evaluation
11:40–12:00 Mehmet Ölmez: Mongolian Loanwords in Anatolian Dialects
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00 Business Meeting
15:00–15:30 Tea Break
15:30–17:30 Paper readings A, Conference Hall
* Session Chair: Mehmet Ölmez *
15:§0–15:50 Saule Tazhibayeva / Irina Nevskaya / Sholpan Zharkynbekova: Expression of evidentiality in supranatural and liminal contexts in Kazakh and Shor in a comparative perspective
15:50–16:10 Shynaray Burkitbaeva and Mereke Kassymbayev: Determining the origin of meaningless pairs of hendiadyoins in the Kazakh language
16:10–16:30 Maezono Kyōko 前園京子: Causative and Passive in Manju, Mongolian and Japanese
16:30–16:50 Azharbubu Raimkulova: Вклады ученых по изучению алтайских языков в исторической ретроспективе
16:50–17:10 Irina Nevskaya: Ongoing work on a new catalogue of Old Turkic runiform inscriptions in the Republic of Altai based on their 3D documentation
17:10–17:30 Iurii Averianov: The legacy of the Qalandar Sufi community and of the poet Babarakhim Mashrab (Diwana Mashrab, ca. 1657–1711) in Russian and Soviet Oriental Studies
15:30–17:30 Paper readings B, West Room
* Session Chair: Uli Schamiloglu *
15:§0–15:50 Ikeda Sumiko 池田寿美子: The growth of Uzbek and Uzbekistani communities in Japan
15:50–16:10 Oğuz Baykara: Problems of Translation from Japanese into Turkish
16:10–16:30 Ma Xiaolin 馬暁林: Sino-Western Academic Exchanges in Mongol History Studies, 1850s–1940s
16:30–16:50 Nurmukhammed Merekeuly: Lexical Traces of Astronomical Knowledge in Ancient Turkic and Kazakh Place Names
16:50–17:10 Qiu Zhirong 求 芝 蓉: Who is Angutha in Simon of Saint Quentin’s History of the Tatars?
17:10–17:30 Tana Wu 小塔: A comparative study of body part terms in Mongolian and Manchu
18:00–18:30 Closing Session, Conference Hall
19:00–21:00 Dinner and Farewell Party

Saturday, August 30th, 2025

07:30–09:00 Breakfast
10:00– Departure from the Seminar House of RINRI Institute of Ethics, Gotemba