Welcome to the Society for Animation Studies Homepage!

The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory. It was founded by Dr. Harvey Deneroff in 1987. Each year, the SAS holds an annual conference at locations throughout the world, where members present their recent research. For more information, contact SAS President Dr. Paul Ward at .

Benefits to members include:

• Annual conferences. The 23rd Society for Animation Studies Conference, The Rise of the Creative Economy, will be held at the University of Indianapolis' campus in Athens, Greece from 18-20th March 2011. Please see the call for papers for more information.
  
• Publication of peer-reviewed conference proceedings in the Society's online journal, Animation Studies (ISSN 1930-1928).
• Listing in the "SAS Animation Experts" directory.
• The SAS Newsletter (ISSN 1930-191X), an internal news publication.
• Members-only discussion list (available at groups.yahoo.com).
• Access to the members-only section of this website.
• Discounts to festivals and other events with participating organizations.
• Discounts to journal subscriptions with participating publishers.

Currently the SAS counts more than 200 members from all over the world. For more information, please visit the Membership section of this site. The SAS is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.