The Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces its fourth annual conference to be held at UMass Dartmouth campus, about 60 miles south of Boston, and only 30 miles from Cape Cod and Providence. The Dartmouth campus provides a beautiful summer setting for conferences in serene and green ambience of the New England. There are plenty of opportunities for site seeing, beaches, and quite walking the trails. An attendance fee of $40 (waived for presenters or financial hardship) covers the entire conference, including refreshments.

The basic goal of the conference is to bring out scholars from varying academic fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to present and discuss scholarly works related to art, culture, history, music, philosophy, sciences, and traditions of ancient and modern India.

Two areas being especially focused in this annual conference will be:

(a)   The origin and sustenance of Indian civilization and culture, which will focus on the ancient origin and modern understanding of Indian civilization. The topics will include controversial issues of Aryans, ethnicity of Indian people, and historicity of Indian people.

(b)   Family system in Indian culture and traditions. Topics will include philosophy, economics, sociology, and spirituality of joint family system.

For further info contact:

Jerry Solfvin, PhD.

Office: 508-910-6630, Offcampus:508-636-8104

email: jsolfvin@umassd.edu, jsolfvin@yahoo.com