Tag Archives: Annual Meeting

65th Meeting Astana, 2023: Report

Dear Reader,

the 65th Annual Meeting of the PIAC was held in Astana from July 30 to August 4, 2023. Held for the second time in Kazakhstan (the first time being the 36th Annual Meeting held in Almaty in 1993), It was a very successful meeting with many young participants.

The report of the Meeting is now online.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
August 15, 2023

Previous Meetings: 43rd Meeting Lanaken, 2000 — Programme and List of Participants

Dear Reader,

Materials of the 43rd Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), held in Lanaken in 2000, are available now: list of participants and programme.

The programme reflects, to a certain degree, the actual sequence of communications which occasionally deviates from the printed material.

Oliver Corff, August 6, 2023.

Previous Meetings: 45th Meeting Budapest, 2002

Dear Reader,

the 45th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) was held in Budapest, Hungary, in June 2002 and was hosted by the Research Group for Altaic Studies,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The programme of this meeting is now available. In the preface of the proceedings volume, Alice Sárközi mentions a total 88 of participants, so this was definitely one of the larger PIAC meetings, yet not everybody who registered for the meeting and submitted an abstract seems to have participated. The programme reproduced here attempts to reflect this situation.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
April 22nd, 2023.

Reports of Annual Meetings

Dear Reader,

the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) looks back over more than 60 years of near-continuous meetings since 1958 (due to Covid-19, the year 2020 was the only year without a PIAC Meeting). During this time, numerous scholars, many of them faithful PIAC members over many years, have contributed reports which were then published in scholarly journals.

The importance of these reports cannot be underestimated; not only do they reflect the importance the authors attached to the field of Altaic studies and the PIAC Meetings, but also these reports often  contain detailed lists of participants, presentations and keywords of discussions. The information contained in these reports thus complements the information contained in Meeting materials like programmes, lists of participants, etc., and serves as a means to confirm these materials.

The Reports of Annual Meetings can be found here.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
April 09, 2023

Previous Meetings: 36th Meeting Almaty, 1993

Dear Reader,

the 36th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in June 1993 and was hosted by the Centre of Oriental Studies of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The programme of this meeting is now available, with the following structure: The first half of the programme lists the general daily schedule in English, while the second half of the programme lists all communications, however in Russian. The total is 87 contributions, so this was definitely one of the larger PIAC meetings.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
April 4th, 2023.

65th Annual Meeting, Astana 2023

Dear Reader,

after exactly 30 years, the members of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) will gather again in Kazakhstan for the 65th Annual Meeting of the PIAC which will be held in Astana from July 30 to August 04, 2023.

The organizing committee of the 65th Annual Meeting is busy with the preparations, and as soon as information is available, it will be made available here.

Looking forward to meeting you in Astana,

Oliver Corff
Secretary General.

Previous Meetings: 48th Meeting Moscow, 2005

Dear Reader,

in 2005, the 48th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC) was held near Moscow, the first time to take place in Russia proper. Before that, one meeting of the PIAC had been held in the USSR, it was the 29th Meeting which took place in Tashkent in 1986.

The list of participants and the programme of the 48th Meeting are available now.

Oliver Corff, March 23, 2023.

Previous Meetings: 39th Meeting Szeged, 1996

Dear Reader,

for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Conference (PIAC) held in June 1996 in Szeged, Hungary, the list of participants and the programme are now available. That meeting had a fairly large number of participants (in the proximity of 100), a considerable number of them first-time participants; it is always important that the PIAC welcomes the next generation of scholars.

Oliver Corff, March 21, 2023.