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Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the PIAC published

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:

Religion and State in the Altaic World

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Friedensau, Germany, August 18–23, 2019

Edited by: Oliver Corff

Volume 32 in the series Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker

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.

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting 2013 Published

Dear Reader,

sometimes, things take quite a while, but today it is with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of the Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the PIAC:

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

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 his work under the “Edition Klaus Schwarz” label.

Oliver Corff, August 12, 2021.

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting in Székesfehérvár, 2017, Available

Dear Colleagues,

The pdf of the PIAC 2017 Proceedings is now downloadable from: https://www.academia.edu/40146407/IDEAS_BEHIND_SYMBOLS_-_LANGUAGES_BEHIND_SCRIPTS

The individual off-prints will be soon available at the Studia uralo-altaica homepage, too. Thank the authors for their contributions and kind cooperation during the publication process!

Friendly regards,

Ákos.

 

Proceedings of 58th Annual Meeting, 2015 Available

Dear Reader,

During the Confessions of the 61st Annual Meeting of the PIAC, Mihály Dobrovits, President of the 58th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, held in Dunajská Streda (Slovakia) 6 – 11 September 2015, announced that the Proceedings of said Meeting are now available. They were published in Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları 28, 2018. The homepage of the journal invites readers to preview in two portions: 28-1 covers the first nine articles, 28-2 covers another seven articles.

Oliver Corff, Bishkek, August 30, 2018.

Papers of the 21st Meeting Manchester, 1978

Dear Reader,

Because of the sudden and untimely death of Professor J. A. Boyle, President of the 21st meeting of the PIAC held in Manchester (England) in 1978, the Proceedings of that meeting were not published. However, six papers read in Manchester by respectively, B. Chichlo, R. Dankoff, E. Esin, A. J. Joki, E. Moerloose, and M. F. Weidlich, appeared in volume 4 (1980) of the Journal of Turkish Studies.

Oliver Corff, July 19, 2018.

60 Years of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)

Dear Reader,

As the PIAC approached its 60th Annual Meeting in 2017, it was considered meaningful to collect the references of approximately 1,500 papers that had appeared in PIAC proceedings over the years and to present them in a concise bibliography. The purpose of this bibliography is twofold: on one hand, it is intended to offer an overview of virtually everything that has been published so far as an outcome of the Annual Meetings, and on the other hand, the interested reader can browse through an enormous variety of subjects and contributions in order to find inspiration.

This bibliography, entitled “60 Years of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)” is published by Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin.

Oliver Corff, July 2018.

The Complete PIAC Newsletter Archive

Dear Reader,

A few days ago, I wrote here that the Permanent International Altaistic Conference Newsletter produced by the PIAC Secretariat started in 1966 and ended in 1999. By today, I stand corrected: the last Newsletter was produced in 2002. It looks quite different from the earlier issues as modern computer-aided text-editing systems became ubiquitous. Computers and the internet brought an end to the necessity of using newsletters to communicate important information for a selected audience; this was felt already in the late 1990s but became manifest around the year 2000.

The PIAC Newsletters, beginning with No. 1 in 1966 and ending with No. 27 in 2002 (only No. 24 is missing, the number never existed and was skipped unintentionally) span an era of fulminant political changes of the Altaic world; what used to be a world divided into two blocs, all things Altaic firmly located in the less accessible bloc, suddenly became a world of open frontiers and new fledgling states in Central Asia. Inner Asian and Central Asian studies, once supported by governments out of political logic, became, at least for a few years, a new fashion; the number of new conferences and study courses announced in the Newsletter after 1990 gives vivid testimony. After economic and political reality left their impression, interest in Central Asia somewhat diminished, only to re-emerge temporarily after 2001.

The Newsletters end in 2002, and it is the chronicler’s task to record what has happened since. Denis Sinor’s (mostly) yearly reflections on the immediate past as well as the ramifications of arranging the next meeting (most rewarding to read is his report on how the 29th Meeting in Tashkent 1987 was organized). Equally insightful is his review of the 13th Meeting in Strasbourg, where he reflects on success and failure due to the political circumstances of the time.

Even if Altaic Studies are not intended as political studies, their research objects are frequently embedded in highly political environments. This fact has not changed since the conception of the PIAC in 1958; only the modalities have changed.

An overview of all Newsletters is found on a dedicated page. All contents of all Newsletters is listed, Newsletters can be downloaded, and individual articles of the Newsletters have found their way into the corpus of www.altaist.org.

Oliver Corff, June 24th, 2018.