philology, epigraphy, linguistics and material culture. From the beginning its aims have been humanistic.
The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded 1842 (as the AOS), promotes research in the languages and literatures of West, Central, South, and East Asia, and North Africa, incl. The American Society for Premodern Asia is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society was founded in 1842 as the American Oriental Society, preceded only
04/04/2026
Issue 146:1 of JASPA (former JAOS) is out online https://lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos/issue/view/126: on quranic reading in Andalus, holy tombs in Cairo, Tamil temple endowments, vratyas in Atharva Veda, military bounties in China, Mori Ōgai’s Dancing Girl, child-slaves in Egypt, Sumerian wordplay, & more!
12/12/2025
Issue 145:4 of the JAOS is out online https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.145.4.2025 , with articles on: Yahwists in Elephantine, oracular law in Assyria, syntax in Qur'anic interpretation, r vs rr in Khotan, Mongol text of the 1413 Tyr stele, Old Chinese parts of speech, Song dynasty incense trade, and more!
REMINDER
American Society for Premodern Asia
Two Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Meeting
Friday, April 24–Monday April 27, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA USA.
If you have not already done so, please submit your 2026 dues payment and 2026 Meeting Pre-Registration now.
Abstracts of communications on the Program may be submitted Online or by Email Attachment. You need to log-in to your member account to access the online Abstracts folder. In the Document Library, Expand All to reveal the Abstracts folder.
The Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 October 2025.
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09/05/2025
Issue 145:3 of the JAOS is out online: http://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.145.3.2025, w articles on: early Chinese autobiogs of becoming, late Ming women's anger, an old term for (eastern) foreigners in China, cuneiform word lists, a trilogy of neo-Babylonian chronicles, the epic of Aqhat, Tabari's poetic license, bustling Buddhist monasteries, the aims of a Sanskrit doxography, and more!