Past meetings, locations, years and chairmen
This is the chronology of our Society’s Annual Meetings which are our lifeblood. The list contains many memories of scientific enlightenment, fantastic hospitality and enduring fellowship.
1st: Tokyo, Japan, 1973 (Satoshi Matsumoto)
2nd: London, United Kingdom, 1974 (Kenneth Till)
3rd: Toronto, Canada, 1975 (E. Bruce Hendrick)
4th: Würzburg, Germany, 1976 (Karl Bushe)
5th: Guarujá, Brazil, 1977 (G. Machado de Almeida)
6th: Jerusalem, Israel, 1978 (A. Sahar)
7th: Chicago, United States, 1979 (Anthony Raimondi)
8th: Marseille, France, 1980 (Maurice Choux)
9th: Budapest, Hungary, 1981 (E. Paraics)
10th: Philadelphia, United States, 1982 (Luis Schut)
11th: Gothenburg, Sweden, 1983 (H. Anderson)
12th: Cairo, Egypt, 1984 (A. Zidan)
13th: Mexico City, Mexico, 1985 (Fernando Rueda Franco)
14th: Madrid, Spain, 1986 (Francisco Villarejo)
15th: New York, United States, 1987 (Fred Epstein)
16th: Rome, Italy, 1988 (Concezio Di Rocco)
17th: Bombay, India, 1989 (Sanat Bhagwati)
18th: Paris, France, 1990 (Jean-François Hirsch)
19th: Seoul, Korea, 1991 (Joon Ki Kang)
20th: Prague, Czech Republic, 1992 (Vladimir Benes)
21st: Phoenix, United States, 1993 (Harold “Hal” Rekate)
22nd: Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1994 (Anthony “Tony” Hockley)
23rd: Santiago, Chile, 1995 (Luciano Basauri)
24th: Ottawa, Canada, 1996 (Enrique Ventureyra)
25th: Verona, Italy, 1997 (Anthony Raimondi)
26th: Melbourne, Australia, 1998 (Elizabeth Lewis)
27th: Salt Lake City, United States, 1999 (Marion “Jack” Walker)
28th: Istanbul, Turkey, 2000 (Saffet Mutluer)
29th: Aalborg, Denmark, 2001 (Jens Haase)
30th: Kyoto, Japan, 2002 (Shizuo Oi)
31st: Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2003 (Alain Pierre Kahn)
32nd: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004 (Hugo Pomata)
33rd: Vancouver, Canada, 2005 (Paul Steinbok)
34th: Taipei, 2006 (Tai-Tong Wong)
35th: Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2007 (Paul May)
36th: Cape Town, South Africa, 12-16 October 2008 (Graham Fieggen)
37th: Los Angeles, United States, 11-15 October 2009 (Gordon McComb)
38th: Jeju Island, Korea, 30 October-4 November 2010 (Kyu-Chang Wang)
39th: Goa, India, 16-20 October 2011 (Chandrashekhar Deopujari)
40th: Sydney, Australia, 9-13 September 2012 (Charlie Teo)
41st: Mainz, Germany, 29 September-3 October 2013 (Wolfgang Wagner)
42nd: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9-13 November 2014 (Francisco Salomão)
43rd: İzmir, Tukey, 3-8 October 2015 (Saffet Mutluer)
44th: Kobe, Japan, 24-27 October 2016 (Mami Yamasaki)
45th: Denver, United States, 8-12 October 2017 (Michael Handler)
46th: Tel Aviv, Israel, 7-11 October 2018 (Shlomi Constantini)
47th: Birmingham, United Kingdom, 21-24 October 2019 (Guirish Solanki)
*Virtual meeting, 6-8 November 2020 (not considered full annual meeting)
*Virtual meeting, 5-7 November 2021 (not considered full annual meeting)
48th: Singapore, 6-10 December 2022 (Wan Tew Seow)
49th: Viña del Mar, Chile, 15-19 October 2023 (Sergio Valenzuela)
50th: Toronto, Canada, 13-17 October 2024 (James Drake, Abhaya Kulkarni)
51st: Lyon, France, 26-30 October 2025 (Federico di Rocco)
52nd: Cairo, Egypt, 2026 (Mohamed El Beltagy)
