Past World Congresses

Congress

Date

City, Country

Chair

I

October, 1959

Montreal, Canada

II

November, 1963

Washington DC, USA

III

May, 1968

Edinburgh, Scotland

FJ Gillingham

IV

September, 1972

Zurich, Switzerland

J Siegfried

V

September, 1975

Vienna, Austria

W Birkmayer

VI

September, 1978

Quebec, Canada

LJ Pourier

VII

June, 1982

Frankfurt, Germany

RG Hassler

VIII

June, 1985

New York, USA

M Yahr

IX

June, 1988

Jerusalem, Israel

MB Streiffler

X

October, 1991

Tokyo, Japan

H Narabayashi

XI

March, 1994

Rome, Italy

L Battistin

XII

July, 1997

London, UK

G Stern

XIII

July, 1999

Vancouver, Canada

D Calne

XIV

July, 2001

Helsinki, Finland

H Teräväinen

XV

2003

Beijing, China

Cancelled

XVI

March, 2005

Berlin, Germany

P Riederer

XVII

December, 2007

Amsterdam, Netherlands

E Ch Wolters

XVIII

December, 2009

Miami Beach, USA

XIX

2011

Shanghai, China

Cancelled

XX

December, 2013

Geneva, Switzerland

E Ch Wolters

XXI

December, 2015

Milan, Italy

A Antonini

XXII

November, 2017

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

D Truong

XXIII

August, 2018

Lyon, France

E Moro

XXIV

June, 2019

Montreal, Canada

R Postuma

XXV

2020

Maastricht, Netherlands

Cancelled

XXVI

May, 2021

Virtual

T Van Laar, E Van Wegen

XXVIII

May, 2022

Prague, Czech Republic

I Rektorova, J Roth, M Trost, E Moro

XXIX

May, 2023

Chicago, USA

C Comella