Founded 1842
HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY
The American Oriental Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society was founded in 1842, preceded only by such distinguished organizations of general scope as the American Philosophical Society (1743), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780), and the American Antiquarian Society (1812). From the beginning its aims have been humanistic. The encouragement of basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia has always been central in its tradition. This tradition has come to include such subjects as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art. The scope of the Society's purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership.
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ANNUAL MEETING
Program of the 222nd Annual Meeting (Preliminary draft)
Registration List and Schedule of Sectional Meetings
222nd Annual Meeting Call for Papers (Boston, 16-19 March 2012)
Graduate Student Award Fund for Travel to the Annual Meeting
Future Annual Meetings: 2009-2013
AOS Middle West Branch Annual Meeting 2012 (February 10-12)
AOS Western Branch Annual Meeting (October 14-15, 2011)
Historic AOS Videos
• American Oriental Society: Centenary of Benno Landsberger (Atlanta: 200th Annual Meeting, March 26, 1990): Miguel Civil, Samuel Greengus, Hans Güterbock, Thorkild Jacobsen, Anne Kilmer, and (the mystery guest) Eugen Merzbacher - Jack M. Sassion, Chair
• An Evening of Reminiscences (New Haven: 196th Annual Meeting, March 10, 1986): Theodor Gaster, Cyrus Gordon, Hans Güterbock, Samuel N. Kramer, and Edith Porada - Jack M. Sasson, Chair
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2011)
The AOS again this past year has received an anonymous gift of $5000 to be matched by additional gifts from the membership to support the Graduate Student Award Fund. Last year's gift was matched by the generous gifts of the members. Members are encouraged to continue their generosity this year.
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds(2005)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2006)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2007)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2008)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2009)
Contibutors to the AOS Endowment Funds (2010)
American Oriental Society Medal of Merit Recipients
Membership Directory (Access is restricted to AOS members)
Officers of the
Society (2011-2012)
2011 Election Results
American Council of Learned Societies
Fellowships & Grants
American Council of Learned Societies Announces Fellowship Awardees from the Membership of the AOS
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