Opening remarks from Prof. Romila Thapar
Keynote address by Dr. Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University, Haryana
Speakers
Dr. Omar Khan, Harappa.com
Title: Harappa.com @30
Prof. Sudeshna Guha, Shiv Nadar Institution
Title: Harappa 100 Years Ago
Dr. Christopher Davis, Durham University, UK
Title: New Light on Marshall: Exploring the archaeological methods, approaches, and perspectives of Sir John Marshall through his photographic collection at Durham University
Mr. Tony Joseph, Journalist and Author
Title: Discovery of the Harappan Civilization: Some questions and issues that remain 100 years later
Dr. V. Selvakumar, Tamil University, Thanjavur
Title: Harappan India: Contemporary Cultures of the Indian Subcontinent
Dr. K. Rajan, Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu
Title: Indus Script and Graffiti Marks: A Comparative Study
Dr. Gregg Jamison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Seals of the Indus Tradition: Current Perspectives and Future Goals
Ms. Dilshad Fathima, University of Allahabad
Title: The Bead Making: A Cultural Identity of the Harappan People
Dr. K. Thangaraj, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology
Title: Origin of Indian population: IVC and genomic perspectives
Dr. G. Kumaresan, Madurai Kamaraj University
Title: The Human Genetic History of South India: Modern Genomes Reiterate Five Ancestries
Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Title: Bhagatrav and its Functional Utility
Dr. R. N. Kumaran & Dr. Yathees Kumar V.P, Archaeological Survey of India
Title: Indus Valley Civilization and its Material Culture in South India
Dr. Rajesh. S. V, University of Kerala
Title: Harappan Archaeology in Kachchh: Insights and Discoveries
Dr. Marxia Gandhi, Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (Retd.)
Title: Some Indus Cultural Vestiges in the Vedic Sources
Dr. Brenda Beck, University of Toronto
Title: What The Seven Pleiad Sisters Can Tell Us– By Their Presence In Mesopotamia, on IVC Seals, and in Kongu Nadu today
Dr. K. M. Metry, Kannada University
Title: Hampi Tunga-Bhadra River Basin Cave Rock Paintings Resemblance to Indus Seals
Mr. R. Balakrishnan, Indus Research Centre, RMRL
Title: Understanding Indus Riddles: In the absence of a bilingual script…
Dr. Amarnath Ramakrishnan, Archaeological Survey of India
Title: Indus Valley Civilisation and its impact towards the continuous legacy of the Dravidian culture viewed from Keeladi Excavation
Mr. Anish Bharadhwaj Lakshmanan, IISER Mohali
Title: Pleonastic Compounding, Cults and Dynastic Titles: A Few Clues to the Indus Signs
Mr. Sukumar Rajagopal, Independent Researcher
Title: IVC Deep Astronomy Harappan Celestial Omens List
Dr. Sitabhra Sinha, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Title: Data and Decipherment: Computational Approaches to Epigraphy of Indus “Writing”
Ms. Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, Independent Researcher
Title: Indus script’s gemstone and precious commodity related fish-signs, and Indus gemstone-word “maṇi”: Ancestral Dravidian symbolism in Indus logograms and language(s)?
Dr. Arun Raj T, Archaeological Survey of India, Noida
Title: Decoding the Harappan Writing system: In-search of Rosetta stone