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PIAC Medal 2014

The 2014 Indiana University Prize for Altaic Studies, also known as the PIAC Medal, was awarded to Mongolian scholar D. Tserensodnom.

Prof. Tserensodnom received the medal during a ceremony held in at the premises of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, in January 2015. The academic world of Mongolia takes particular pride in this award as it is only the second time in 50 years that this prize was awarded to a Mongolian. The first Mongolian scholar to receive the medal was B. Rinchen.

There was extensive media coverage on television, nation-wide newspapers and academic journals of this event.

Introductory Information to the 37th – 39th Meetings available

Thanks to Hartmut Walravens’ kind help, introductory information about the 37th Meeting in Chantilly (1994), the 38th Meeting in Kawasaki (1995) and the 39th Meeting in Szeged (1996) is now available.

Previous Meetings: 15th Meeting Wien/Strebersdorf, 1972

Dear Reader,

Information about the 15th Meeting 1972 is now available.

Oliver Corff.

Previous Meetings: 7th Annual Meeting in Arnhem, 1964

Dear Readers,

Thanks to the efforts of Profs. Kellner-Heinkele and Walravens there is now a collection of well over 20 tables of contents of proceedings as well as publications of PIAC articles in journals like the CAJ waiting to be consolidated and introduced here. I’ve begun to integrate information about previous PIAC meetings into this website; today I start with the 7th Meeting which took place near Arnhem in 1964.

Oliver Corff.

57th Meeting 2014

Planning for the 57th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference is underway; details will be announced in due course.

Editor’s note

The PIAC website is online again.