Schedule

Conference Date: 5-7 January 2025 | 9.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.

Day 1 – 5th January 2025

Inauguration of the conference

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, Pondicherry University (Retd.)
Title: Indus Script and Graffiti Marks: A Comparative Study

Day 2 – 6th January 2025

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: Exploring Regional Variations in Harappan Bead Culture: A Call for Re-evaluating Standardized Narratives

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 it’s 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 Depatment of Archaeology (Retd.)
Title: Some Indus Cultural Vestiges in the Vedic Sources

Day 3 – 7th January 2025

Dr. Brenda Beck, University of Toronto
Title: The Sky-Garment. A Study of the Harappan Religion and Its Relation to the Mesopotamian and Later Indian Religion

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: Indus @ 100

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)?