The International Association for Assyriology (IAA) is a non-profit, non-political organization founded in July 2003, and seated in Leiden that "the fields of

Cuneiform Studies Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sha ...

, ancient

Near Eastern The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...

History and

Archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

on an international basis and to act as a representative body for these fields in relationship to national, international and private institutions, as well as the general public". According to the

Union of International Associations The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a non-profit non-governmental research institute and documentation center based in Brussels, Belgium, and operating under United Nations mandate. It was founded in 1907 under the name Central Office ...

, this organization was founded in "July 2003, London (UK), during International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology (RAI)" and "registered in accordance with Dutch law." The IAA makes an annual congress, the

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Rencontre or La Rencontre may refer to: * Rencontre East, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Rencontre West, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * La rencontre imprévue, a 1763 opera by Gluck * Diogenes and Alexander The meeting of Diogenes ...

that assembles scholars from all the world at centres of Near Eastern research. Associations and societies are affiliated like

The American Oriental Society The American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned societies in America, and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship. The Society encourages basi ...

British Institute for the Study of Iraq The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) (formerly the British School of Archaeology in Iraq) is the only body in Britain devoted to research into the ancient civilizations and languages of Mesopotamia. It was founded in 1932 and its aim ...

Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (, ''German Oriental Society''), abbreviated DOG, is a German voluntary association based in Berlin dedicated to the study of the Near East. The DOG was officially founded in January 1898 to foster public interest ...

, The Israel Society for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and La Société pour l’étude du Proche-Orient ancien.

List of presidents

* Cécile Michel *

Walther Sallaberger Walther Sallaberger (born 3 April 1963 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian Assyriologist. From 1982 to 1988, Walther Sallaberger studied languages and cultures of the ancient Near East as well as classical archeology at the University of Innsbruck. He ...

Jack M. Sasson Jack M. Sasson (born 1941) is the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Emeritus and previously Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. From 1977 to 1999, he was a professor at the Un ...

* Åke W. Sjöberg

Honorary Council

* M. Roaf (2018) *J. Klein (2017) *W. Van Soldt (2017) *I. Winter (2017) *E. Leichty† (2016) *D. Collon (2016) *J. S. Cooper (2016) * H. Hunger (2015) *S. Zawadzki (2015) *D. Owen (2014) *J. Sasson (2014) *B. Kienast† (2013) *C. Wilcke (2012) *J. D. Hawkins (2011) * W. W. Hallo† (2010) *

W. G. Lambert Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Early life Lambert was born in Birmingham, and, having won a scholarship, he was edu ...

† (2009) *K. R. Veenhof (2007) *E. Reiner† (2005) *A. Sjöberg† (2005) *P. Garelli (2004)

References

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