5.0674 Confs: American Oriental Society (1/122)

Thu Feb 13 09:55:43 UTC 1992

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0674. Wednesday, 12 Feb 1992.

Date:     Tue, 4 Feb 92 22:43:54 EST
From: Jonathan Rodgers <USERGDZT at UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject: Summary Program American Oriental Society, 1992

Here follows a summary of the Program of the Annual Meeting of the American
Oriental Society, Cambridge, Mass., 29 March--1 April, 1992.
I shall send in a few minutes a BITNET file transfer of the entire Program
in ascii format for distribution via the fileserver.
Many thanks for your assistance in distributing our Program.  The program
will reach many of our members who are subscribers to the HUMANIST well before
receipt of the printed Program.
Jonathan Rodgers, Secretary, AOS.

       202nd MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY

   29 MARCH--1 APRIL, 1992 HYATT REGENCY CAMBRIDGE, MASS

                   OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAM

                    Saturday, March, 28th

2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board,  JAOS.

 5:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. American Institute of Iranian Studies
Annual Trustees Meeting.

8:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. Meeting,  ASOR Baghdad Committee.

 Sunday, March 29th

9:30 a.m.--12:00 p.m. Meeting, Board of Directors.

1:00 p.m.--5:00 p.m.  Registration and Book Exhibit.

2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East I:  Historical and  Historiographic
Documents.
 B. East Asia I: Chinese History.
 C. Islam I: Islamic History I.
 D. South & Southeast Asia I: A Vedic Miscellany.

7:30 p.m.--10:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East II: Social and Legal  Institutions.
 B. Islam II: Islamic History II.

                     Monday, March 30th

8:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit.

9:00 a.m.--12:30 p.m. Monday Morning Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East III: Literature.
 B. East Asia II: Approaches to Textual History  and Textual
Criticism.
 C. Inner Asia I: Antiquities.
 D. Inner Asia II.: Antiquities II.
    Meeting of the Mongolia Society. (following Inner Asia
II)
 E. Islam III: Islamic Religion.
 F. South & Southeast Asia II: Philosophy  and Religion.

2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Monday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East IV: Cult and Ritual   Activities.
 B. East Asia III: Chinese Poetry.
 C. Inner Asia III: Religion.
 D. Inner Asia IV: History.     (following Inner Asia III)
 E. Islam IV: Literature I.
 F. South & Southeast Asia III: Literature and  Art History.
 G. Islam V: Islamic Law.

6:00 p.m.--8:00 p.m. Reception.   American Academy of Arts
and Sciences

                     Tuesday, March 31st

8:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit.

8:30 a.m.--10:45 a.m. Plenary Session: The Self and the
Other.

11:00 a.m.--12:00 p.m. Business Meeting.

2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Tuesday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East V: Art and Archeology.
 B. East Asia IV: Topics in Chinese Literature.
 C. Inner Asia II: Linguistics.
 D. Islam VI: Literature II.
 E. South & Southeast Asia IV: Various Sastras;  Himalayan
Culture.
 F. Ancient Near East VI: AOS-NACAL I: Hebrew   Literature
and Linguistics.

3:30 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Book Sale.

6:45 p.m.--7:45 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar).

8:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner and
Presidential Address.

                    Wednesday, April 1st

9:00 p.m.--12:00 p.m. Book Sale.

9:00 a.m.--12:30 p.m. Wednesday Morning Sectional Meetings

 A. Ancient Near East VII: AOS-NACAL: Linguistics.
 B. East Asia V: Japan and Korea.
 C. Islam VII: Islamic Philosophy & Thought.
 D. South & Southeast Asia V: Linguistics and Music.
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