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Previous Meetings: 42nd Meeting, Prague 1999

Dear Reader,

The the discovery of archival materials always offers a fortunate opportunity to fill in blank spots in the history of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC). This is even more important in cases where no proceedings volume was ever produced.

For the 42nd Meeting of the PIAC held in Prague in 1999 hosted under the auspices of RFE/RL, the following materials are now available in addition to the existing article by Bruce Pannier:

As always, curating the PIAC archive relies on contributions from the PIAC community. Thus, in case you participated in that meeting but do not find your name in the aforementioned materials, please let me know and everything will be duly updated.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General

Berlin, March 09, 2023

Previous Meetings: 61st Meeting Bishkek, 2018

Dear Reader,

the 61st Annual Meeting of the PIAC took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in 2018. With more than 150 participants it definitely is one of the biggest PIAC meetings ever held; the Meeting was part of a series of other, more prominent high-level international events, among them the Third World Nomad Games, the celebrations for the 27th Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan, as well as the 6th Meeting of the Turkic Council, as it was then called.

The introduction contains links to the list of participants, the programme as well the presentations.

Sincerely yours,

Oliver Corff
Secretary General.

Berlin, February 3rd, 2023

Previous Meetings: 47th Meeting Cambridge, 2004: Report

Dear Reader,

Our Turkish colleague Süer Eker wrote an introduction to the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) and a report on the 47th Annual Meeting of the PIAC. He kindly gave permission to translate the report in English, and finally it could be published here.

Oliver Corff, January 23, 2023.

Previous Meetings: 53rd Annual Meeting St. Petersburg, 2010: Abstracts and Report

Dear Reader,

Recently, Viacheslav Zaytsev made the Book of Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference available which was held in St. Petersburg, 2010. He also gave permission to make all abstracts available via programme and individual contributor.

This update was a good opportunity to finally present the report on that Meeting which was written by the President of that Meeting, Tatiana Pang.

The re-organized overview including T. Pang’s report of the Meeting can be found here, the book of abstracts here, individual abstracts are available via the programme.

Oliver Corff, January 23rd, 2023.

 

42nd Annual Meeting Prague, 1999

Dear Reader,

the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1999. It is one of those meetings in the history of the PIAC where neither any conference material nor a proceedings volume are available.

The most comprehensive report was by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who hosted the 42nd Annual Meeting. Their report here is reproduced with kind permission by RFE/RL.

Report: 42nd Annual Meeting, Prague 1999

Oliver Corff, October 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.