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.
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.
Dear Reader,
Dear Participants of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference,
The official programme of the Meeting is now available online.
Looking forward to a fruitful and successful Meeting,
Oliver Corff.
Dear Reader,
the 64th Annual Meeting of the PIAC is to begin soon. It will take place in Budapest, Hungary, August 21 – 26, 2022, and will be hosted by the Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.
On our dedicated page for the 64th Annual Meeting 2022 you can find travel information.
While the programme is not yet finalized, there is a list of confirmed participants and their papers.
Dear Reader,
today it is with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of the Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the PIAC:
Edited by: Oliver Corff
I wish to thank all contributors, and my special thanks goes to De Gruyter, the publisher. De Gruyter has acquired the Klaus Schwarz Verlag, owned by the late Gerd Winkelhane, and continues to support for publishing selected PIAC Proceedings under the “Edition Klaus Schwarz” label.
Oliver Corff, February 27, 2022.
Dear Reader,
there is a constant flow of material of previous meetings that is not (hopefully, yet) included in the PIAC website altaist.org. Thanks to Olga Dyakova who shared the source documents of the Programme and Book of Abstracts of the 57th Annual Meeting which took place in Vladivostok in 2014, the programme of said Meeting and nearly all abstracts are now available online: 57th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, 2014: Programme.
Oliver Corff, October 2021.
Dear Reader,
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the PIAC closed on August 28th, 2021. The meeting was held under the most unusual, but hopefully unique circumstances. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic had forced the organizers first to postpone the Meeting from 2020 to 2021, and then to conduct the Meeting in electronic form, i.e. as a video conference.
Despite so many “firsts”, the Meeting went smoothly and was appreciated by all participants. A detailed report can be found here.
Oliver Corff, Sept. 6th, 2021.
Dear Reader,
the second day of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the PIAC featured two sessions, one on Mongolian Language and Thought,, chaired by D. Tumurtogoo, the other one on Turkic Studies, chaired by L. Bold. Both sessions ended in lively discussions.
In the meantime, more Mongolian media report on the 63rd Annual Meeting, e.g. medee.mn. The article shows Bat-Ireedüi during his opening speech and also allows a glimpse into the “command post” of this year’s meeting.
Oliver Corff, August 27th, 2021.
Dear Reader,
due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 63rd Annual Meeting which was scheduled for 2020 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, had to be postponed to August 26–28, 2021. The pandemic situation, however, relentlessly continued as a global emergency into this year 2021, making a reunion impossible again. So, instead of postponing the Annual Meeting for another year, it was decided to overcome health concerns and travel restrictions by conducting the 63rd Annual Meeting in electronic form.
August 26, 2021, witnessed the opening ceremony of the 63rd Annual Meeting and successful sessions of the first day. The number of active participants is close to 50. The programme is available here.
Besides a report on the homepage of the Institute for Language and Literature at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, there are also first Mongolian media reports (e.g. by mpress.mn) on the PIAC.
Oliver Corff, August 26, 2021.
Dear Reader,
A gallery of pictures taken during the 62nd Annual Meeting of the PIAC is available here.
Oliver Corff, September 06th, 2019.