2022: Elected Secretary General of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference

Participation:

• 37^th Meeting, 1994
• 40^th Meeting, 1997
• 49^th Meeting, 2006: “The Known World and Beyond: Concepts of the Animal Kingdom as Presented in the Pentaglot”
• 50^th Meeting, 2007: “The Contribution of Dictionaries to Preventing the Loss of Cultural Knowledge“
• 51^st Meeting, 2008: “Travel or Trade: Western Perceptions of Central Asia”
• 52^nd Meeting, 2009: “Manju and Mongolian Perceptions of Tibetan“
• 53^rd Meeting, 2010: “Some Remarks on the Editorial Status of the Beijing and London Mss of the Wu Ti Qingwenjian“
• 54^th Meeting, 2011: “An Approach to Reading Qing Turki”
• 55^th Meeting, 2012: “Hierarchy of the World – a Reflection on Chinese and Manju Perceptions“
• 56^th Meeting, 2013: “Gender, Rank and Symmetry: Matters and Modes of Expression in the Pentaglot”
• 57^th Meeting, 2014: “The Contribution of Legal Studies to the History of the Manju Empire“
• 58^th Meeting, 2015: “Are Altaic Studies a political science?“
• 59^th Meeting, 2016: “Nation and Nations in the Qing Empire: a Boundless Homeland. Terminology of Territorial Administration“
• 60^th Meeting, 2017: “Boundaries, Markers and Rivers: Their Scripts and Names in the Qing Shi Gao”
• 61^st Meeting, 2018: “Games, play and wisdom: More than an Altaic Pastime”
• 62^nd Meeting, 2019: “Disasters — Acts of Heaven? Official Records of Disasters in the Draft History of Qing” (President)
• 63^rd Meeting, 2021: “Transformations of Language and Thought Reflected in Mongolia’s Constitutions Since 1924“
• 64^th Meeting 2022: From Felt to Fabric: Transformative Processes in Manju Lexicology and Lexicography
• 65^th Meeting, 2023: Defining the New Normal: Transformations of Lexicon and Grammar in two Manju Dictionaries

Berlin, Germany

Position or affiliation: Independent scholar

Fields of interest

Mongolian and Manju lexicography, language contact in Central Asia; Mongolian law; history of military thought and strategy in China

Current research

Development of constitutional law in Mongolia

Publications

Zur Frage der Herkunft der Japanischen Sprache. Eine Einführung in die Problematik im Lichte der Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, OAG Nr. 52, Tokyo 1991

The Known World and Beyond: Concepts of the Animal Kingdom
as Presented in the Pentaglot. In: Proceedings 2006, p. 69-76.

Hauer, Erich Handwörterbuch der Mandschusprache
Herausgegeben von Corff, Oliver
Gebunden, 552 Seiten – 24 × 17 cm. ISBN: 978-3-447-05528-4
Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007

Some Remarks on the Editorial Status of the Beijing and London Mss of the Wu Ti Qingwenjian. In Proceedings 2010, 322-328

Auf kaiserlichen Befehl erstelltes Wörterbuch des Manjurischen in fünf Sprachen “Fünfsprachenspiegel”. Systematisch angeordneter Wortschatz auf Manjurisch, Tibetisch, Mongolisch, Turki und Chinesisch
Corff, Oliver; Maezono, Kyoko; Lipp, Wolfgang; Dorj, Dorjpalam; Gerelmaa, Görööchin; Mirsultan, Aysima; Stüber, Réka; Töwshintögs, Byambajav; Li, Xieyan pages/dimensions: 2 Teile, LIV, 1110 Seiten. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. publishing date: 1. Aufl. 31.08.2013
ISBN: 978-3-447-06970-0

60 Years of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC). A Bibliography. By Oliver Corff.  Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker No. 26. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin:2017. ISBN: 9783879974696.

Statehood in the Altaic World. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Ardahan, Turkey, June 26-July 1, 2016. Edited by Hartmut Walravens, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele and Oliver Corff. Published by Books on Demand. Norderstedt, 2018. ISBN:  978-3-7528-0263-4.

Expressions of Gender in the Altaic World. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of The Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Kocaeli, Turkey, July 7–12, 2013. Edited by Münevver Tekcan and Oliver Corff. De Gruyter: 2021. ISBN 9783110748789.