List of learned societies

This is a partial list of learned societies, grouped by country.

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International

Name	Established	Headquarters
Association for Computing Machinery	15 Sep 1947	New York City[1][2][3]
Association for Information Science and Technology	13 Mar 1937	Silver Spring[4]
Association for Symbolic Logic	1936	Poughkeepsie
Association of Internet Researchers	1999
Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology	1997	Western Australia
Australasian Law Teachers Association
Australasian Proteomics Society	1994
Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society	1993
Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights	1899[5]
Chinese Music Society of North America
Human Behavior and Evolution Society	29 Oct 1986
Illuminating Engineering Society		Wall Street
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science	1967	Menton
International AIDS Society	1988[6]	Geneva
International Association of Amateur Heralds
International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	1956
International Association of Medical Colleges	2005
International Association for the Study of Pain	1973	Washington, D.C.
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society	1992	San Antonio
International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society	1996
International Communication Association	1950
International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies	19 Jan 1949[7]
International Council for Science	1931	Paris
International Council of Onomastic Sciences		Uppsala
International Fiscal Association	1938
International Geographical Union	1922	Cape Town, Delhi
International Institute for Conservation	1950
International Mammalian Genome Society	1991
International Mathematical Union	10 Sep 1951[8]	Weierstrass Institute
International Social Science Council	1952	Paris
International Society of Critical Health Psychology
International Society for Plant Pathology	26 Jul 1968[9]	Saint Paul
International Union of Crystallography	1948
International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences	1931
International Union of Microbiological Societies	1927
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry	1919[6]	Zurich
Latin American Studies Association	1966[10]	Pittsburgh
Society for Animation Studies	1987
Society for Ethnomusicology	1955	Bloomington
Society for Public Health Education
Society for Social Studies of Science	1975	Evansville
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship	1992[11]
International Union of Academies	1919[12]
World Economics Association	2022	Vienna
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies	1955
World Veterinary Association	1863, 9 Sep 1905	Geneva, Budapest
International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation	1971[13]

European

Name	Established	Headquarters
European Academy of Sciences and Arts	7 Mar 1990	Salzburg
European Association for Artificial Intelligence	1982
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science	1972
European Brain and Behaviour Society	1968[14]
European Crystallographic Association	1997
Engineers Europe	1951	City of Brussels
European Geosciences Union	Sep 2002[15]	Munich
European Mathematical Society	1990	Helsinki
European Physical Society	1968	Mulhouse
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology	1998
European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
Informatics Europe	2006	Zurich

Argentina

Name	Established	Headquarters
Academia Argentina de Letras	13 Aug 1931	Buenos Aires
Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters
Argentine Film Critics Association	1942
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team		New York City, Buenos Aires[16], Córdoba[16]
Argentine Medical Association	1891
Belgranian National Institute	22 Jun 1944
Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine	9 Apr 1822
Fundación Favaloro	1975	Buenos Aires
Fundación Italia	1985
Konex Foundation	1980
National Academy of History of Argentina	1893	Former National Congress Building, Buenos Aires
San Martín National Institute	1933
SADAIC	1936
Association Internationale d'Études Occitanes		Montpellier

Armenia

Name	Established	Headquarters
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia	10 Nov 1943	Yerevan
Armenian Economic Association

Australia

Main article: List of learned societies in Australia

Austria

Name	Established	Headquarters
Austrian Academy of Sciences	14 May 1847	Vienna
Austrian Institute of Technology	1956	Vienna
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence		Vienna
Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics	1993	Vienna
Gregor Mendel Institute	2000	Vienna
Institute Vienna Circle	1991
Joanneum Research	1960	Graz
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies	2011

Bangladesh

Name	Established	Headquarters
Asiatic Society of Bangladesh	1952
Bangla Academy	1955	Dhaka
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development	1959	Cumilla
Bangladesh Astronomical Association
Bangladesh Computer Society		Dhaka
Bangladesh Computer Samity	1987
Bangladesh Research and Education Network
Bangladesh Entomological Society
Bangladesh National Geographical Association
Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists	1976
Bishwa Sahitya Kendra	1980
Shilpakala Academy
Shishu Academy	1976	Dhaka

Belgium

Name	Established	Headquarters
Belgian Physical Society	26 Dec 1962	Belgium
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten	16 Mar 1938	Academy Palace
Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium	1842[17]	Brussels metropolitan area[18], Royal Museums of Art and History, Academy Palace

Brazil

Name	Established	Headquarters
Brazilian National Academy of Medicine	30 Jun 1829
Brazilian Academy of Letters	1896	Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Academy of Sciences	3 May 1916	Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Society of Physiology
Brazilian Society of Health Informatics
Brazilian Medical Association	1951[6]
Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science	May 1948[19]	São Paulo

Canada

Name	Established	Headquarters
Association francophone pour le savoir	15 Jun 1923[20]
Canadian Institute of Actuaries	1965	Ottawa
Canadian Economics Association	1966
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences	1996[21]	Ottawa[22]
Canadian Historical Association	1922	Ottawa
Canadian Information Processing Society	1958	Mississauga
Canadian Mathematical Society	Jun 1945[23]	Ottawa
Canadian Political Science Association
Canadian Society of Forensic Science	1953
Canadian Society of Medievalists
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion	1965[24]
Chemical Institute of Canada
Engineering Institute of Canada
Literary and Historical Society of Quebec	6 Jan 1824[25][26]	La Cité-Limoilou
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada	1868	Toronto
Royal Canadian Geographical Society	1929	50 Sussex Drive
Royal Society of Canada	1882	Ottawa
Statistical Society of Canada		Ottawa

China

Name	Established	Headquarters
Chinese Academy of Engineering	1994
Chinese Academy of Sciences	1 Nov 1949	Beijing
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	1977	Beijing
Chinese Chemical Society	4 Aug 1932
Chinese Mathematical Society	1935
Chinese Physical Society	1932
Royal Asiatic Society China	2006

Czech Republic

Name	Established	Headquarters
Royal Czech Society of Sciences[a]	1791	Prague
Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis	1746	Olomouc
Union of Czech mathematicians and physicists	1862	Prague[27]
Learned Society of the Czech Republic	10 May 1994[28]	Prague[27]

Finland

Name	Established	Headquarters
Actuarial Society of Finland	1922
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters	1908, 1838[6]	Borgströmin talo, Mariankatu 5
Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland - TEK	1896
Finnish Association of Architects	1892	Helsinki
Finnish Literature Society	1831	Kruununhaka
Finno-Ugrian Society	1883	House of Science and Letters
International Council on Monuments and Sites	1965	Charenton-le-Pont

France

• The 5 académies of the Institut de France:

Name	Established	Headquarters
Académie des Beaux-Arts	21 Mar 1816	Paris
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres	1663	Paris
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques	22 Aug 1795	Paris
French Academy of Sciences	22 Dec 1666	Paris
Académie Française	29 Jan 1635[29]	Paris

Others

Name	Established	Headquarters
Académie de Marine	1752	Paris
French Academy of Technologies	2000	Paris
Société mathématique de France	1872	Paris[30]
Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles	1983	Paris

Germany

Name	Established	Headquarters
Association of German Engineers	12 May 1856	Düsseldorf[31]
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities	1759	Munich
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities	1992	Berlin
German Academy of Science and Engineering	2002	Munich
Academy of Sciences of the GDR	1946	East Berlin
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina	1 Jan 1652	Halle
Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache	1947	Wiesbaden
Göttingen Academy of Sciences	1751	Theaterstraße 7
Latvian Literary Society	1824	Riga, Jelgava
North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts	1970
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences	11 Jul 1700
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities	1 Jul 1846	Leipzig
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft	14 Jan 1845	Bad Honnef
German Chemical Society	1949	Frankfurt
German Crystallographic Society	1991	Stuttgart

Ghana

Name	Established	Headquarters
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences	27 Nov 1959	Airport Residential Area
Ghana Academy of Film and Television Arts	2001	Accra
Ghana Biomedical Convention	2007
Ghana Institute of Architects	1962
Ghana Institution of Engineers	1968
Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation
Ghana Institution of Surveyors	1969
Ghana Journalists Association	1949
Ghana Medical and Dental Council		Accra
Historical Society of Ghana	1951	Accra
Nurses and Midwifery Council

Hungary

Name	Established	Headquarters
Hungarian Academy of Sciences	3 Nov 1825	Main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Historical Society	15 May 1867	Budapest

Hong Kong

Name	Established	Headquarters
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch	1959

India

Name	Established	Headquarters
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India	1 July 1949	ICAI Bhawan, New Delhi
Institute of Company Secretaries of India	1968 (Converted into statutory body in 1991)	New Delhi
Institute of Cost Managers of India	1944 (Converted into statutory body in 1959)	Kolkata
Indian Academy of Sciences	1934
Indian Institute of Architects	12 May 1917	Mumbai
Indian National Science Academy	7 Jan 1935[32], 1935[6]	New Delhi, The Asiatic Society[32]
Indian National Academy of Engineering	20 Apr 1987	New Delhi
Neurological Society of India	1951
The National Academy of Sciences, India	1930
Asiatic Society of Mumbai	1804[6]
Sahitya Akademi	1954	New Delhi

Ireland

Main article: List of Irish learned societies

Italy

See also: List of learned societies in Italy

Name	Established	Headquarters
Lincean Academy	1603[6]	Rome
Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL	1782	Villa Torlonia
Accademia della Crusca		Florence
Arcadian Academy	1690
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia	1585

Japan

Name	Established	Headquarters
Asiatic Society of Japan	1872
Chemical Society of Japan	1878	Tokyo
Japan Society of Applied Physics	1949
Japanese Society for the History of Medicine	1892
Japanese Society for the History of Pharmacy	1954
Optical Society of Japan	1952
Physical Society of Japan	1877
Society for the History of Western Learning in Japan
Society of Polymer Science	1951

Malaysia

Name	Established	Headquarters
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Montenegro

Name	Established	Headquarters
Montenegrin Sports Academy

Netherlands

Name	Established	Headquarters
Society for the Advancement of Science, Medicine and Surgery	1790	Amsterdam

New Zealand

Name	Established	Headquarters
Armed Forces Law Association of New Zealand	2000
Legal Research Foundation
Institute of IT Professionals	1960
New Zealand Dermatological Society
Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand	1931, 20 Jul 1931
Royal Society Te Apārangi	1867	Wellington
The Heraldry Society of New Zealand	1962	Auckland
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry	1931

Nigeria

Name	Established	Headquarters
Association of Cost and Management Accountants
Association of National Accountants of Nigeria	1979	Lagos
Institute of Chattered Chemists of Nigeria	1993	Abuja
Nigerian Academy of Engineering	1997
Nigerian Association of Law Teachers	1961
Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics
Nigerian Institute of Architects	1960
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs	1961[33]	Abuja
Nigerian Institute of Management	1961	Lagos
Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers	1969
Nigerian Society of Engineers	16 Feb 1958
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria

Pakistan

Name	Established	Headquarters
Pakistan Academy of Letters	1976	Islamabad

Papua New Guinea

Name	Established	Headquarters
The Institute of Chemists PNG

Poland

Name	Established	Headquarters
Collegium Invisibile	1995	Warsaw
Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists	1875	Kraków

Portugal

Name	Established	Headquarters
Sciences Academy of Lisbon	24 Dec 1779	Lisbon

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Name	Established	Headquarters
Academia Sinica	9 Jun 1928	Nangang District

Serbia

Name	Established	Headquarters
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts	7 Nov 1841	Belgrade
Matica srpska	1826	Novi Sad

South Africa

Name	Established	Headquarters
Astronomical Society of Southern Africa	1922
Economic Society of South Africa	1925
Royal Society of South Africa	1908	Cape Town
South African Archaeological Society

South Korea

Name	Established	Headquarters
Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch	1900
Korean Language Society	31 Aug 1908	Seoul
Korean Chemical Society	1946	Seoul
Korean Mathematical Society	1946[34]	Seoul
Korean Physical Society	7 Dec 1952	Seoul

Spain

Royal Academies of the Institute of Spain:

Name	Established	Headquarters
Royal Spanish Academy	1713	Madrid, Real Academia Española headquarters
Royal Academy of History	18 Apr 1738	Nuevo Rezado
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando	12 Apr 1752	Palace of Goyeneche
Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences	1847	Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales building
Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation	1763	Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación headquarters
Royal National Academy of Medicine	1734[35]	Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine building
Royal National Academy of Pharmacy	1737	Royal Academy of Pharmacy building
Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences	1857	Casa y Torre de los Lujanes
Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain	1994	Mansion of the Marquis of Villafranca[36]
Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences	1940	Barcelona

Sri Lanka

Name	Established	Headquarters
National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka	1976
Computer Society of Sri Lanka	1976
College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka	1927
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka	1959	Colombo
Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka	1906
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka	7 Feb 1845

Sweden

Name	Established	Headquarters
Swedish Academy	20 Mar 1786	Stockholm Stock Exchange Building
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences	2 Jun 1739	Frescati
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences	24 Oct 1919	Stockholm
Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography	1878
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities	1753	Eken 9
Swedish Linnaeus Society	23 May 1917	Uppsala

Switzerland

Name	Established	Headquarters
Society for Art History in Switzerland	1880

Thailand

Name	Established	Headquarters
Siam Society	26 Feb 1904[37]	Khlong Tan Nuea

Tunisia

Name	Established	Headquarters
Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts	1983	Carthage

United Kingdom

Main article: List of learned societies in the United Kingdom

United States

Main article: List of learned societies in the United States

See also

• List of engineering societies
• List of international professional associations

Notes

1. Predecessor of the Czech Academy of Sciences

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