Tag Archives: Annual Meeting

New additions in List of PIAC Reports

Dear Reader,

after a prolonged phase of dormancy, the list of PIAC reports contributed by PIAC members has been thoroughly updated. With support from Miyawaki-Okada Junko, the references for reports contributed by the late Okada Hidehiro could be completed; Russian-language references from Soviet journals (e.g. Sovetskaya Tyurkologiya) were also added, as were references for reports about the latest Meetings contributed by Michael Knüppel and Nagamime Hiroyuki.

These reports are sometimes the most informative source about Meetings, notably in case of the absence of Proceedings or other materials. Not only do they record the actual sequence of presentations (which — in many cases — differs from the printed programme), they also frequently contain remarks about the presented papers.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
September 2026

 

68th Meeting, Bangkok 2026: Report

Dear Reader,

the 68th Annual Meeting of the PIAC was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 21 to 26, 2026. Held for the first time ever in Thailand, It was a very successful meeting with approx. 30 participants, among them numerous young first-time participants.

The report of the Meeting is now online.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
June 29, 2026

67th Meeting Gotemba, 2025

Dear Reader,

the 67th Annual Meeting of the PIAC was held in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, from August 26 to 30, 2025. Held for the second time only in Japan, It was a very successful meeting with 51 participants, among them many young first-time participants.

The report of the Meeting is now online.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
September 02, 2025

Previous Meetings: Information on 37th Meeting, Chantilly 1994, now available

Dear Reader,

The editor continues to negotiate his path through a huge treasure trove of PIAC documents: books of abstracts, lists of participants, and programmes of previous PIAC Meetings. If these materials contain many hand-written notes or are typeset by typewriter which was typically the case until the 1990s, they have to be copied manually. Thus, it is understandable that this is a time-consuming process. On the other hand, the editor does not process the materials in a linear, time-sequential fashion but his choices are rather prompted by a multitude of factors, curiosity not being the least among them.

That is why the List of Participants and Titles of Communications of the 37th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, held in Chantilly, France, in 1994, is available only now.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
July 2024

 

66th Meeting Göttingen, 2024: Report

Dear Reader,

the 66th Annual Meeting of the PIAC was held in Göttingen from June 30 to July 5, 2024. Held for the eleventh time in Germany, It was a very successful meeting as it saw the number of participants (from 15 countries) return to pre-Covid levels (57 participants joined the Meeting), among them many young participants.

The report of the Meeting is now online.

Oliver Corff
Secretary General
July 08, 2024

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.