Previous ISFNR Meetings

According to its statutes, the ISFNR aims to convene regularly every four years for a congress in connection with the General Assembly. Previous congresses include the following:

  • 1959 Kiel (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 1962 Antwerp (Belgium)
  • 1963 Budapest (Hungary)
  • 1964 Athens (Greece)
  • 1969 Bucharest (Romania)
  • 1974 Helsinki (Finland)
  • 1979 Edinburgh (Great Britain)
  • 1984 Bergen (Norway)
  • 1989 Budapest (Hungary)
  • 1992 Innsbruck (Austria)
  • 1995 Mysore (India)
  • 1998 Göttingen (Germany)
  • 2001 Melbourne (Australia)
  • 2005 Tartu (Estonia)
  • 2009 Athens (Greece)
  • 2013 Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • 2016 Miami (USA)
  • 2020 Zagreb (Croatia)
  • 2024 Riga (Latvia)

After a first interim meeting in Liblice (Czechoslovakia) in 1966, interim conferences have become a regular phenomenon since 1996. Interim conferences primarily address the local audience and aim to offer a forum linking local researchers to the international community. Previous interim conferences include the following:

  • 1996 Beijing (China)
  • 2000 Nairobi (Kenya)
  • 2003 Visby (Sweden)
  • 2007 Santa Rosa (Argentina)
  • 2011 Shillong (India)
  • 2015 Ankara (Turkey)
  • 2018 Ragusa, (Italy)
  • 2022 London, (England)