The 236^th Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia will be held Friday, April 24, 2026 through Monday, April 27, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA USA.

Members of the Society are hereby invited to submit communications to be presented at the 236^th Meeting.

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. 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-Latin writing systems. Text submitted in non-Latin writing will be not appear in the printed abstracts.

Submission Guidelines (Submit Online or by Email Attachment):

Upload to the AOS/ASPA site: Expand All Folders to View, Select the Abstracts of Communications Folder, and upload to that folder.
Members must log-in to see the Abstracts folder.

Alternatively, you may submit abstracts by Email Attachment. Use “AOS/ASPA Abstracts” in the subject line. Abstracts must be in Microsoft Word format or .pdf produced from MS Word. Please name your abstract according to following convention: YourLastNameYourFirstInitial.docx, e.g., RodgersJ.docx. You must include the abstract title and your name, email, and academic affiliation in the abstract. Abstracts need not be submitted anonymously.

Please note that the Program Committee will not accept papers for inclusion on the Program submitted by members who have not paid 2026 membership dues and pre-registration fees in full and who neglect to submit abstracts by the October 31, 2025, deadline.

Members who submit abstracts of papers will be notified of their inclusion on the Program soon after January 15, 2026.

Sectional Committee Chairs, whose names are listed at ASPA Officers should be contacted directly only in the matter of organizing special panels.

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 ASPA members to participate in the program, please inform them that they should apply for membership and pre-register 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.

Presenters are usually allotted 15 minutes to read their papers. Five minutes of discussion following presentation is the convention, if there is sufficient time. These limits are flexible, depending on the number of papers and available time.