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)
