The 3rd Biennial International Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on South Asian Interconnections on the theme of Producing Knowledge through Practice was held at the Nāgānanda International Institute for Buddhist Studies (NIIBS), Manelwatta, Bollegala, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka on 24th and 25th July 2023. The Conference was organized by the Indian Association for South Asian Studies of Banaras in India and the Hindu University of Varanasi in India in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of the Nāgānanda International Institute for Buddhist Studies. The objective of the conference was to enhance institutional education and training across sectors with the interconnection of local and South Asian countries.
The main aim of the conference was to be more focused on the interconnections among South Asian countries in terms of labour, ideas, commodities, culture, religion, and performing practices since the world we live in is intertwined, with constant movements of products, services, capital, labour, information, and ideas. As these movements have served as the foundation for constructing global value chains this conference explored the interconnectedness of South Asians from pre-history to modern times. The business sessions were held on 11 parallel sessions on the themes of Economics and Political Science, Performing Arts, Media and Journalism, Geography, Language/ Literature and Linguistic Studies, Education, Psychology and Medical Sciences, Anthropology / Sociology, History and Archaeology, Religious Studies, and Language/ Literature and Linguistic studies with 20 scholars chairing the sessions in which 88 research papers were presented by 33 Indian and 37 Sri Lankan delegates.
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