Special Lectures & Invited Speakers

Plenary Lectures

1. Prof. Devyani Sharma Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Topic: "Syntactic variation in Indian English and implications for NLP". Download the Abstract from here.

2. Prof. S. N. Sridhar Professor of Linguistics & India Studies, Director, Center for India Studies, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. Topic: "Mixing as a Civilizational Process: Language Interaction and Literary Creativity in Indian Multilingualism and Multilingual Theory". Download the Abstract from here.

3. Prof. Pramod Kumar Pandey Vice-Chancellor, Deccan College PGRI (Deemed University), Pune, India. Radhabhai Katre Memorial Lecture on topic: "Phonological Patterning and Emergence of Novel Segments". Download the Abstract from here.

4. Prof. Malhar A. Kulkarni Department of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai. Topic: "Features of interaction between Paninian grammar and Computational Linguistics". Download the Abstract from here.

5. Prof. K. Karunakaran Sociolinguist, Director, ISDL & Former Vice-Chancellor, Tamil University, Thanjavur. Topic: "Tamil Diglossia and its Reality in use: Revisited with current thinking". Download the Abstract from here.

6. Prof. Probal Dasgupta Formerly in ISI Kolkata, India. Topic: "The Semiotic Supplement to Grammar: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of the Naive Formal Approach to the Science of Language". Download the Abstract from here.

7. Prof. Shobha Satyanath Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi. Topic: "Looking beyond the 60s: Sociolinguistics research trends in India". Download the Abstract from here.

8. Prof. Mrinal Chatterjee Regional Director, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal, India. Topic: "Translation for Language Revitalization". Download the Abstract from here.

9. Prof. Mahavir Saran Jain Former Director, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Buland Shahr (UP), India. Topic: "The Influences of the Prakrit and Apabhransha Languages on the Modern Indo-Aryan Languages".

10. Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh Chair-Professor ACLiS, Amity University Haryana & Former Director of CIIL, Mysuru, India. Topic: "Possible Arguments Against a Multilingual Policy". (Deferred due to health problems).

11. Prof. G. Kesava Panikkar Hon. Director, International School of Dravidian Linguistics; Dean, Dravidian Linguistic Association of India & Chief Editor, IJDL, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Topic: "Towards Restructuring Linguistic Studies in India: From a Future Perspective". (Deferred due to old age health).

12. Prof. Rakesh Mohan Bhatt Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA. Topic: "Narratives of displacement: Kashmiri Pandits and the Chronotope of Victimhood". (Deferred due to personal problems).

13. Prof. Manir Uz Zaman Retired Professor of Bangla, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Topic: "Bangla or dia-Bangla: A Question". (Deferred due to health problems).

14. Prof. Ganesh N. Devy Heads People’s Linguistic Survey of India & Retired Professor of English at the MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, India. (Deferred due to health problems).

15. Prof. Noam Chomsky Laureate Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona & MIT, USA. (Deferred due to old age health).

16. Prof. Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate in Economics, Harvard University, USA. [Not-Confirmed]

Panel Discussant

1. Prof. Joga Singh Former Professor, Dept. of Linguistics & Punjabi Lexicography, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. Topic: "A scrutiny of language policy proposals in NEP 2020". & [Panel discussant on NEP-2020]

2. Prof. Bijoy Mohan Misra Odia Language & Indian Studies, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, USA. Topic: "Paninian Definition: A Search of Word Formation in the Vedas", Download the Abstract from here. (Deferred due to health problems).

3. Prof. Rajendra Narayana Dash Germany. [Odia Panel discussant] (Deferred due to health problems).

4. Prof. Rajagopal Gibikote Formerly in EFLU, Hyderabad, India. [Panel discussant on NEP-2020] (Deferred due to health problems).

5. Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva Former Director of CIIL, Mysuru, India. [Panel discussant on NEP-2020] (Deferred due undue reason).

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