(Dues and Meeting Forms are available for download below)

Conference rates per night for rooms are $149 for single or double; $179, club level. There will be additional charges for parking. The hotel has a health club, pool, and 24-hour business center. Check in is 3:00 p.m., and check out is 12:00 p.m. The Sheraton Society Hill is located four blocks from Independence Hall and a short walk from restaurants, shopping, galleries, and theaters.

You must make reservations directly with the hotel well in advance of the meeting, since room availability cannot be guaranteed after February 21, 2005. As you make reservations, mention the American Oriental Society Meeting, with the meeting dates. After this cutoff date, any uncommitted rooms in the block we have reserved will be released for general sale, and additional reservation requests will be accepted if rooms are available.

Reservations: Direct phone: (215) 238-6000; Fax (215) 238-6652; Toll-free Sheraton main line (800) 325-3535. Please mention American Oriental Society Meeting, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, March 18-21, 2005.
Sheraton Society Hill Website: http://www.starwood.com/sheraton/search/hotel detail.html?propertyID=166.

The Society's contract with the Sheraton Society Hill for securing conference rates requires that a minimum number of rooms per night be reserved and occupied by members for the duration of the meeting. Thus, your stay at the Sheraton assures that the AOS will not be assessed extremely high fees for meeting and banquet space rental. We truly need your cooperation in this matter.

Transportation: The Sheraton is conveniently located 10 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport and Amtrak's 30^th Street Station. $20 flat rate from the airport to the hotel, $8 for USA Limousine (1-800-6070). The Center City Shuttle, located on the baggage claim level, stops at the Sheraton Society Hill between the hours of 7AM and 7PM. If driving, follow I-95 to Exit 20 (Penns Landing/Washington Avenue) and turn left on Columbus Boulevard. Proceed to Dock Street and turn left. Continue to the end of Dock Street and turn right. The hotel is located on your right.

All sessions will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel. The Annual Subscription Banquet will take place on Sunday evening, March 20, also at the hotel. The Program, which will be mailed to you in late January, 2005, will provide information on other special activities and events to take take place during the meeting.

Members of the Society are hereby invited to submit communications to be presented at the 215^th Meeting. Please complete and return the enclosed Announcement of Communication form and an Abstract of the proposed paper to the Office of the Secretary BEFORE NOVEMBER 15, 2004. No paper will be considered unless (a) the Abstract follows the guidelines set forth below, (b)the completed Pre-registration Form and Fee and your 2005 Dues Payment accompany the submitted Announcement and Abstract.

Members who submit papers will be notified by mail of their inclusion on the Program soon after January 15, 2005. Sectional Committee Chairs, whose names are listed on the verso of the title page of the Journal , should be contacted directly only in the matter of organizing special panels. (Refer also to: http://www.umich.edu/~aos/frntmtr.htm#OFFICERS)

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should cover the following points: (a) the precise topic treated, (b) your exact contribution to the problem, (c) its relationship to previous scholarship on the topic, (d) specific conclusions. Abstracts should be typed or word-processor produced and submitted in duplicate. Please do not submit draft-quality or dot-matrix printed abstracts, since these cannot be scanned efficiently for the production of the published Abstracts of the Meeting. Please also keep in mind that abstracts of papers accepted for presentation will appear in the published Abstracts in the way in which they have been submitted. It is impossible for this Office to edit them. Please transliterate non-roman writing systems.

Please note that the Program Committee will not accept papers for inclusion on the Program submitted by members whose 2005 dues have not been paid or who neglect to submit abstracts and registration forms in full with pre-registration fee by the November 15, 2004 deadline. We emphasize that you must pay your 2005 dues and submit your abstract and pre-registration form with fee by the November 15, 2004 deadline. Otherwise, your paper will not be considered acceptable for inclusion on the Program.

Papers from non-members, except for those of visiting scholars invited to participate in special panels, cannot be considered because of the expense the Society bears in running the Annual Meeting. When inviting colleagues and students who are not AOS members to participate in the program, please inform them that they should apply for membership at the time they submit abstracts.

Please respond to the Call for Papers only if you plan to attend the Meeting. Failure to present a paper that has been accepted on the Program creates a very poor impression of the Society and is particularly discourteous to those members who may have travelled great distances just to hear certain communications.

All materials must to submitted by November 15, 2004, to the Office of the Secretary, American Oriental Society, Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1205; telephone 734-647-4760.

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You are encouraged to submit Abstracts via E-MAIL; however, you must also submit paper copies of the abstract, pre-registration form, and announcement of communication via ordinary mail. (We use the paper copies of abstracts to restore formatting and other features, such as diacrtics, in the printed abstracts distributed at the meeting.) Send e-mail abstracts to: jrodgers@umich.edu with the subject line: AOS Abstract. Send the files either as plain text in the email message, or send formatted files as e-mail attachments. Please name the file as follows: YourlastnameFirstinitial.doc (or .wpd, .txt, .pdf, .rtf, etc.), e.g., SmithJ.doc.

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Abstracts may be submitted on COMPUTER DISKS in any format (PC or Mac). You must also submit paper copies. Mark your disk with your name, computer type, and file format. We can return it to you at the meeting.

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You may also submit materials via FAX between the hours of 18:00 and 08:00 Eastern Time, from October 1 through November 15, 2004, to 734-763-6743. (If you prefer this means, we ask, nevertheless, that you also transmit the abstract, if possible, in one of the other two electronic forms, i.e., via e-mail or on disk.)

2005 Annual Meeting Forms for Download (Some MS Internet Explorer for Windows users have experienced difficulties in displaying and printing these .PDF files. A work-around solution is to right-click on the file and specify that you wish to save the file in a local directory on your computer (i.e., “save target as”). If you use Netscape, you should not experience difficulty.)

1. Announcement of Communication
2. Pre-Registration Form
3. Dues Payment and Address Changes Form
4. Credit Card Payment Form
5. Call for Papers 2005 Annual Meeting (This file)
6. AOS Membership Application Form Please distribute to colleagues and students who are not yet members and might wish to attend the meeting or present a communication.

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