The American Oriental Society will be meeting on March 16-19, 2012 in Boston.   Professor John M. Steele will be presenting Numbers, Signs and Meanings in Babylonian Astral Medicine on Friday afternoon, March 16th.  Also presenting Friday afternoon will be Zackary Wainer Etiologies of Illness: 
 A Late Babylonian Understanding of the "Hand of Ishtar" and Yuzhen Guan A New View on Solar Eclipse Records in the Pre-Qin Period.   M. Willis Monroe will present Tablets and Tokens: Methods of Administration on Assyrias Northern Frontier Saturday morning, March 17th.