Schedule

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

Day 1 – 5th January 2025

The conference will be inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister of Tamilnadu

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

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: 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

Day 3 – 7th January 2025

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