The term orientalist was officially abolished at the 1973 Paris congress

Evidence

The debate among the orientalists was carried on for some time and came to a head on the hundredth anniversary of the 1st Congress of Orientalists. The first was held in Paris in 1873, another was held in Paris on the hundredth anniversary in 1973; and celebrated the centenary by officially abolishing the term orientalist. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2069

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete institutional event showing that scholars themselves repudiated ‘orientalism’ as a disciplinary label — a useful data point against a purely external-imposition reading. — connects to: Orientalists formally abandoned their field’s name yet kept using it
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 2069