Welcome to the website of the Oriental Society

Welcome to our website.The Oriental Society of Australia is the oldest society in Australia promoting Asian Studies in this continent since 1956. We are also moving with time, now you can contact us through our website. Please feel free to do so and send your views and suggestions and join our organisation.

Michael Carter , President.

Click here to learn more about the OSA 2006 Conference
World Without Walls:Asia and the West - 21st Century Perspectives

Oriental Society Presentations for 2008

8. December: Dr Lily Lee - An illustrated talk on women along the Silk Road: images from the murals of Dunhuang and archaeological findings along the Silk Road

15. September: Professor Sam Lieu - Gallipoli after Gallipoli: the Ottoman Phase

25. August: Hugh Clarke - A place for Okinawa: Japan’s changing perceptions of its southern islands.

28. July: Soumyen Mukherjee - Sir William Jones, Scottish Enlightenment and the Bengal Renaissance.

16. June: Malcolm Voyce (Macquarie University) - Buddhist ‘Transgressions’: The Violation of Rules of Buddhist Monks.

1. May, 5 (AGM session): Mark Rolfe (UNSW), paper on the Danish cartoons about Muhammad and Islam entitled: Cartoons that are Danish - not such Sweet Confections?