International Bat Research Conferences

1st          1968        Czechoslovakia, Hluboka n.V.
2nd         1970        The Netherlands, Amsterdam
3rd         1972         Yugoslavia, Plitvice
4th         1975         Kenya, Nairobi       
5th         1978         USA, Albuquerque
6th         1982         Nigeria, Ife
7th         1985         UK, Aberdeen
8th         1989         Australia, Sydney
9th         1992         India, Madurai
10th       1995         USA, Boston
11th       1998         Brazil, Pirenopolis
12th       2001         Malaysia, Bangi
13th       2004         Poland, Mikolajki
14th       2007         Mexico, Merida
15th       2010         Czech Republic, Praha

A conference series of considerable tradition * by its geographic and conceptual coverages, number of participated scientists, and/or by its impact upon the progress of the discipline often considered as the most important and respectful assembly of bat scientists * For more than 40 years, the IBRC series has mapped the pathways of development of the discipline, and has provided a prominent platform for introducing new conceptual and methodical issues and fruitful discussions on biology, taxonomy, biogeography, morphology, behaviour, evolution and all other topics in study of bats. 

Although recently accompanied with a number of other more or less regular bat symposia (such as the European Bat Research Symposia or  North American Bat Research Conferences) or specialized conferences focused on particular problems (such as 2010  Berlin Symposium on Bat Diseases), the International Bat Research Conference will play its role of an integrative platform for divergent  approches in bat studies undoubtedly also in future.