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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars Program\, American Society for Legal History\, April 1\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \nCriteria: Early-career scholars who wish to present a paper on any topic in legal\, institutional and/or constitutional history\, at the annual ASLH conference. \nAmount: $500 cash + $750 reimbursement \nDeadline: April 1\, 2026 \nNamed after the late Kathryn T. Preyer\, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to early career legal historians\, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society. The generosity of Professor Preyer’s friends and family has enabled the Society to offer a small honorarium to the Preyer Scholars and to reimburse\, in some measure or entirely\, their costs of attending the meeting. The competition for Preyer Scholars is organized by the Society’s Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Committee. \nSubmissions are welcome on any topic in legal\, institutional and/or constitutional history. Early career scholars\, including those pursuing graduate or law degrees\, those who have completed their terminal degree within the previous year\, and those independent scholars at a comparable stage\, are eligible to apply. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society. While papers simultaneously submitted to the ASLH Program committee are eligible\, Preyer Award winners must present their paper as part of the Preyer panel and will be removed from any other panel. For the 2026 conference in Banff only\, a Preyer Scholar may give their presentation virtually if they are unable to attend in person due to exceptional circumstances. \nSubmissions should consist of a single MS Word document consisting of a complete curriculum vitae\, contact information\, and a complete draft of the paper to be presented. Papers should not exceed 50 pages (12-point font\, double-spaced). In past competitions\, the Committee has given preference to draft articles and essays\, though the Committee will also consider shorter conference papers\, as one of the criteria for selection will be the suitability of the paper for reduction to a twenty-minute oral presentation. \nThe two Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will receive a $500 cash award and reimbursement of expenses up to $750 for travel\, hotels\, and meals. Each will present the paper that s/he submitted to the competition at the Society’s annual meeting. The Society’s journal\, Law and History Review\, has published several past winners of the Preyer competition\, though it is under no obligation to do so. \nPlease send submissions by the deadline to preyeraward@aslh.net.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-kathryn-t-preyer-scholars-program-american-society-for-legal-history-april-1-2026/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Opportunities,prizes and nominations
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Fellowship: 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey\, American Research Institute in Turkey\, April 1\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:ARIT FELLOWSHIPS for 2026 \nThe American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) announces 2026 ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey. Awards are offered for research in ancient\, medieval\, or modern times\, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Tenures range from one to three months. \nScholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient\, medieval\, or modern times in Turkey\, in any field of the humanities and social sciences\, are eligible to apply.  Student applicants must have fulfilled all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation by June 2026.  Non-U.S. applicants who reside in the U.S. or Canada are expected to maintain an affiliation with an educational institution in the U.S. or Canada. \nApplications due April 1\, 2026 \nhttps://aritweb.org/fellowships/arit-research-fellowships/
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/fellowship-2026-arit-fellowships-for-research-in-turkey-american-research-institute-in-turkey-april-1-2026/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Fellowships,Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260404
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
CREATED:20260103T001945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T234753Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Arabic TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative)\, April 2–3\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions. Hugh Cayless (TEI treasurer\, senior programmer Duke University Libraries) and Adam Mestyan (Professor of Middle Eastern Studies\, NELC) will teach the sessions. The workshop will feature an evening talk by Sabine Schmidtke (IAS Princeton) about the history of critical editions of Arabic manuscripts. \nThe workshop will take place on April 2-3 (Thu-Fri) 2026 in the Gibb Room in Widener Library. Students will need to bring their own laptops but will receive a free one-year license for the Oxygen XML editing software. \nLunch will be provided. Space is limited and priority will be given to Harvard students. Please only register if you can commit to the full two-day program by filling out the form in the link. \nThis workshop is generously supported by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, and the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-arabic-tei-textual-encoding-initiative-april-2-3-2026/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,Harvard Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T183000
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Manuscripts  to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and  Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age with Sabine Schmidtke\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, April 2\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:ALWALEED BIN TALAL\nRESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP \nManuscripts to Megabytes: Evolving Editorial Practices and Challenges in Arabic Manuscripts from the Premodern to the Digital Age \nSABINE SCHMIDTKE\nInstitute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\nThursday\, April 2\, 2026 | 5:00pm\nCGIS Knafel 262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\nThis lecture is free and open to the public \nCO-SPONSORS: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School \nSee Flyer Here. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-manuscripts-to-megabytes-evolving-editorial-practices-and-challenges-in-arabic-manuscripts-from-the-premodern-to-the-digital-age-with-sabine-schmidtke-institute-for-advanced-study-princ/
CATEGORIES:events in Islamic legal studies,lectures and talks,PIL events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260404
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Workshop: The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond with Adrien de Jarmy\, April 3\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:The BADR Project\n(7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond \nAdrien de Jarmy\, University of Strasbourg\nZoom: https://bit.ly/JarmyTEI\nThis lecture is free and open to the public \nCO-SPONSORS: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School \nFriday\, April 3\, 2026 | 12:00pm \nSee flyer here. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-the-badr-project-7th-21st-c-a-tei-xml-analysis-of-premodern-islamic-texts-and-beyond-with-adrien-de-jarmy-april-3-2026/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Opportunities,PIL events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T193000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh\, “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive\,” April 6\, 2026 @ 6:15pm
DESCRIPTION:Amadu Kunateh (CSR)\, “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive.” Nicholas Judt (CSR) will respond. \nWe will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more info and to RSVP. \nThe Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries\, mobility\, and transformation. Our goal is to offer a platform for collaboration and discussion to all Middle East scholars at Harvard across a wide range of academic fields and disciplines. To date\, our community has welcomed scholars from NELC\, History\, Middle Eastern Studies\, Anthropology\, the Study of Religion\, Law\, Art and Architecture\, and more. During meetings\, we typically workshop a polished dissertation chapter or prospectuses from graduate students.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-middle-east-beyond-borders-amadu-kunateh-footnote-to-ghazali-philosophy-without-falsafa-in-west-african-intellectual-archive-april-6-2026-615pm/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,Harvard Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T133000
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California)\, “The Islamic Secular\,” April 7\, 2026 @ 12:30pm
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, April 7\, 2026\, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST\, Professor Sherman Jackson will be speaking on his book\, The Islamic Secular. The basic point of the secular in the modern West is to “liberate” certain pursuits—the state\, the economy\, science—from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of “secular” in Islam. Sherman Jackson argues\, however\, that that assumption is wrong. In Islam the “secular” was neither outside “religion” nor a rival to it. “Religion\,” in Islam was not identical to Islam’s “sacred law\,” or “shari’ah.” Nor did classical Muslim jurists see shari’ah as the all-encompassing\, exclusive means of determining what is “Islamic.” In fact\, while\, as religion\, Islam’s jurisdiction was unlimited\, shari’ah’s jurisdiction\, as a sacred law\, was limited. \nRegister here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-law-speaker-series-sherman-jackson-university-of-southern-california-the-islamic-secular-april-7-2026-1230pm/
CATEGORIES:PIL events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Fellowship: MESA 2026–2027 Global Academy\, April 16\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Global Academy Fellowship Applications\nfor the 2026-2027 academic year\nis now open! \nThe MESA Global Academy offers scholars of the Middle East from the MENA region who are currently displaced and/or whose careers have been disrupted in their home countries due to war\, institutional collapse\, or repression the chance to join the strongest network of Middle East Studies scholars in North America\, with professional development opportunities and a modest grant. \nProfessional development opportunities include curated speaking engagements at partner universities across the United States\, Canada and Europe\, publication opportunities with leading journals in the field\, mentoring\, and workshops such as grant and proposal writing workshops. Fellows also benefit from being part of a supportive intellectual community during a time of professional transition. \nEligibility criteria for the fellowships are: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English\, French\, a native MENA language\, or principal research language of the field). \nPlease reach out to Ceren Abi\, Program Manager\, at ceren@mesana.org with any questions about the Global Academy or the application process. Please share this call far and wide. \nApply here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/fellowship-mesa-2026-2027-global-academy-april-16-2026/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Fellowships,Opportunities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T133000
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: Knowledge in the Islamic Court\, Program in Islamic Law\, Harvard Law School\, April 16\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:What counts as proof in an Islamic court? How does a judge rule between competing claims to truth? How does technological advancement impact notions of evidence? How can our understanding of Islamic law writ large change if we center its rules of adjudication? And what constitutes an “Islamic” court or judge in the first place? The participants of this roundtable seek to address these questions through five respective case studies and propose that attention to evidence\, proof\, and procedure will help us better understand both the adjudicative process and juristic intent of Islamic legal rules. Focusing primarily on the modern and contemporary world\, the five contributions center varying conceptions of proof amidst rapid social and technological changes in Islamic judicial contexts. \nConveners: Nurul Hoda Mohd. Razif (University of Bergen) and Ari Schriber (University of Erfurt) \nContributors: Aya Bejermi (University of Bordeaux)\, Léon Buskens (Leiden University)\, Dominik Krell (University of Oxford)\, Irene Schneider (Göttingen University)\, Mashal Saif (Clemson University) \nJoin us on zoom\, April 16\, 2026 @ 12:00pm EST. Registration required.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/roundtable-knowledge-in-the-islamic-court-program-in-islamic-law-harvard-law-school-april-16-2026/
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,PIL events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T193000
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Djelemory Diabate\, “Closing the Sufi Age: Authority\, Finality\, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal’s Kitab Rimah\,” April 20\, 2026 @ 6:15pm
DESCRIPTION:Djelemory Diabate (CSR)\, “Closing the Sufi Age: Authority\, Finality\, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal’s Kitab Rimah.” Amadu Kunateh (CSR) will respond. \nWe will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more info and to RSVP. \nThe Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries\, mobility\, and transformation. Our goal is to offer a platform for collaboration and discussion to all Middle East scholars at Harvard across a wide range of academic fields and disciplines. To date\, our community has welcomed scholars from NELC\, History\, Middle Eastern Studies\, Anthropology\, the Study of Religion\, Law\, Art and Architecture\, and more. During meetings\, we typically workshop a polished dissertation chapter or prospectuses from graduate students.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-middle-east-beyond-borders-djelemory-diabate-closing-the-sufi-age-authority-finality-and-political-theology-in-umar-al-futi-tals-kitab-rimah-april-20-2/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,Harvard Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
CREATED:20260126T003704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T234836Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Humanities of AI—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis\, Johns Hopkins University\, April 24-26\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis \nInaugural Humanities of AI Workshop \nJohns Hopkins University\, April 24-26\, 2026 \nAs a creative aspiration\, the Greek notion of mimesis (“imitation”) manifested not only in artistic works imitating reality and philosophical speculations but also in scientific theories and mechanical artifacts. Plato and Aristotle’s nous as a non-bodily principle of intelligibility underwriting cosmic order and thought; Hobbes and LaMettrie’s machine like mind and world; the Jaquet-Droz family’s musical automata; Wolfgang von Kempelen’s chess-playing Turk; Norbert Wiener’s cybernetic analogy between human\, animal\, and machine; Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori’s observation of the revulsion to imperfect verisimilitude (Bukimi no Tani: “uncanny valley”); and Soviet semiotician Yuri Lotman’s culture as collective mind\, exemplify the broad relevance of “imitations” to science\, literature\, and culture. \nDevelopments in artificial intelligence (AI) participate in the legacy of mimesis but also complicate and challenge it. In the course of AI’s research history\, AIs have variously been claimed to represent\, simulate\, assist\, improve upon\, provide a surrogate for\, or replace the functioning of human minds. Concepts such as “optimization\,” “satisficing\,” and “superintelligence” run orthogonal to the classical concept of mimesis. \nAt the same time\, developments in science and society have deeply challenged both mimesis and mindedness as concepts and ideals. Darwinian and embodied cognitive approaches challenge the primacy of abstract reasoning over embodiment; and reflections on human labor’s relation to material (re-)production\, social stratification\, and human experience from Marx\, Wallerstein\, Pasquinelli and others call into question the social “value-added” of material imitations as well asthe veracity of accounts of “intelligent” labor’s nature and origins. Deep divisions in the societal uptake of AI – exemplified in anti-AI activism\, dueling governance regimes\, and popular criticalslang like “AI slop” – exemplify and give opportunity to inform these theoretical challenges.Orientation to these developments requires approaches that scholars in the humanities may beuniquely positioned to provide. We hereby announce a three-day workshop on “Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis” for presentation and discussion of new humanities research engaging with this theme. \nOur aim is to foster a collective critical engagement with AIs in their history\, socioeconomic context\, architecture\, and other dimensions of significance with the assistance of resources from literature\, philosophy\, history\, or other humanities fields. We invite contributions from both early-career (including graduate students) and established academic researchers\, whose work-in-progress projects straddle disciplinary boundaries to illuminate aspects of the diverse mind-machine relations exemplified in AI’s history\, current reality\, and imagined futures. \nIn addition to presented papers\, some time at the conference will be devoted to reflection on “humanities of AI” as a research domain\, including its current state and possible futures\, disciplinary articulation\, conditions of success\, relations with natural and social sciences\, and potential impact on sociotechnical systems involving AI. \nFeatured Speakers  \nYulia Frumer\, Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professor of East Asian Science\, Johns Hopkins University; Author of “Cognition and emotion in Japanese humanoid robots\,” History & Technology (2018) and Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2018) \nN. Katherine Hayles\, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University; Author of Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2017) and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2015) \nMatthew L. Jones\, Smith Family Professor of History\, Princeton University; Author (with Chris Wiggins) of How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (Norton\, 2023) \nMatthew Kirschenbaum\, Commonwealth Professor of AI and English\, University of Virginia; Author of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press\, 2021) \nPatrick McCray\, Professor of History\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Kluge Chair in Technology and Society (2025) at the Library of Congress (2025); Author of README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (MIT Press\, 2025) \nAlexander Williams Tolbert\, Assistant Professor of Data and Decision Sciences\, Emory University; Author of “Why Causal Inference is Necessary for Algorithmic Fairness\,” Synthese (2025) and “Causal Agnosticism about Race: Variable Selection Problems in Causal Inference\,” Philosophy of Science (2024). \nSupporting Institutions \nAlexander Grass Humanities Institute\, Johns Hopkins \nUniversity\n(https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/) \nCenter for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS)\, Morgan State \nUniversity\n(https://www.morgan.edu/ceamls) \nOrganizing Committee \nJiantong Liao (Chair) \nPhD Student\, German Program\, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures \njliao20@jh.edu \nKsenia Tatarchenko (Faculty Sponsor) \nFaculty\, Medicine\, Science & Humanities Program\, Johns Hopkins University \nktatarc1@jh.edu \nPhillip Honenberger (Faculty Sponsor) \nAI Ethicist & Researcher\, Center for Equitable AI & ML Systems (CEAMLS)\, Morgan State \nUniversity \njaywilliam.honenberger@morgan.edu
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-humanities-of-ai-intelligence-and-imitation-mind-mechanism-mimesis-johns-hopkins-university-april-24-26-2026/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTSTAMP:20260527T052903
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SUMMARY:Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting\, Los Angeles\, CA\, April 24–27\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \nThe 236th 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.  \nHotel and Reservations: A block of conference-rate accommodations has been reserved at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza\, 251 South Olive Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012 USA. \nThe conference rate per night for rooms is $249-$309. Occupancy tax is 16.22%. Hotel’s check-in time is 4:00 pm; check-out time is 12:00 noon. \nYou must make reservations directly with the hotel well in advance of the meeting\, no later than Monday\, April 6\, 2026. After the 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 and without the conference discount. The conference rate also applies 3 days prior and 3 days after the conference\, based upon availability. \nReservations may be made by phoning the hotel at 1-800-THE-OMNI (general Omni number) or (213) 356-4070 (Direct). You need to identify yourself as a member of the AOS/ASPA and mention “American Oriental Society/American Society for Premodern Asia 2026 Conference” and the date the room block begins\, which is April 22\, 2026. It is also possible to reserve by visiting our customized Group Web Page. \nThe Society’s contract with the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza 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 Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza assures that the ASPA will not be assessed extremely high fees for meeting and banquet space rental. We truly need your cooperation in this matter. \nDirections\, Parking\, and Transportation: \nTravel\, Directions\, etc. \nAll sessions will be held at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. The Annual Subscription Banquet and Presidential Address will take place on Sunday evening\, April 26\, also at the hotel. The Program\, which will be accessible online in late January 2026\, will provide information on other special activities and events to take place during the meeting. \n\nPAYMENT OF 2026 MEMBERSHIP DUES AND MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION FEES \nOnline Dues and Meeting Pre-Registration Payment: \nPay 2026 dues online at: \nAOS/ASPA Membership Dues \nNOTE: In October\, AOS/ASPA members will receive email notice that they should pay 2026 membership dues by the 31 December 2025 deadline. Members may renew membership at any time by viewing their Profile page and finding on the right side: \n“Your Membership is not yet due for renewal. If you want to renew early\, click here” \nPre-register at: \nREGISTER HERE FOR THE 2026 ANNUAL MEETING \nNote: If you prefer to submit dues or registration payment by check or credit card and send payment by post\, you may use this 2026 Dues Registration Form
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-american-society-for-premodern-asia-annual-meeting-los-angeles-ca-april-24-27-2026/
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