Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference records, 1964-2006
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Summary
- Creator:
- Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference
- Abstract:
- Association for Asian Studies is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in East, South, and Southeast Asia. The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) was founded in 1941. The Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) is a non-political, non-profit scholarly organization dedicated to promoting the study of Asia in the southeastern region of the United States.
- Extent:
- 4 Linear Feet
9,725 Items - Language:
- Material in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.00056
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Association for Asian Studies (AAS), founded in 1941, is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in East, South, and Southeast Asia. The Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) is a non-political, non-profit scholarly organization dedicated to promoting the study of Asia in the southeastern region of the United States.
Collection (ca. 3300 items, dated 1964-1988) includes records pertaining to the conference's primary mandate--to promote the study of Asia in the southeastern region of the United States. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and printed material relating to the organization's activities. Also included are programs, minutes, and letters for annual meetings (1964-1988), as well as a history of the association, membership lists, and documentation for an occasional papers project. (3-15-85?)
Addition 93-178 Series (3500 items, dated 1979-1993) contains copies of the association's ANNALS publication, volumes I-XI; correspondence, secretary and treasurer's papers; as well as papers presented at annual meetings.
Addition 97-007 Series (ca. 900 items, dated 1994-1996) includes 44 folders of materials concerning annual meetings and other activities of the organization.
Addition 01-006 Series (1000 items, dated 1994-2000) includes annual meeting documents, business and annual reports, and student prize competition papers from 1995 to 2000. At the end of the second box are included materials from 1994-1997 that are similar to those in earlier accessions.
Additions 04-136 and 07-042 Series (1025 items, 1.5 lin. ft.; dated 1991-2006) consists of files related to annual meetings, committees, membership, publications, institutional records relating to 45th annual business meeting and volume 27 of the SOUTHEAST REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES. Addition 07-042 has been interfiled in 04/136: Box 3.
- Acquisition information:
- The Association for Asian Studies Southeast Conference Records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1985, 1993, 1997, 2001, and 2004.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Rubenstein Library staff.
Encoded by Carrie Mills, August 2011.
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 3-15-85, 93-178, 97-007, 01-006, 04-136, 07-042.
Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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- Subjects:
- Asianists -- United States
Arabists -- United States - Names:
- Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference
Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference -- History -- Congresses
Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference - Places:
- Asia -- Study and teaching -- Southern States
Asia -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
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