(A
Multidisciplinary Academic Society - Tax Exempt in USA)
Seventh International Conference
Theme : Vedic heritage for Global Welfare of Next Generation
Date : June
27 – 29, 2008
Venue: University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
SECOND
ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Deadline For receiving abstracts
: Jan 30, 2008
(Letters of Acceptance if
needed may please be asked specifically)
Deadline For full length papers: Mar . 30, 2008
(Without full –final papers and confirmed
participation, allotting the timeslots in the conference program may be
difficult.)
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Submission Procedure Details for UPLOADING
Abstracts-PAPERS
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About the Conference: The
Conference aims at bringing together persons having academic interest in
diverse areas of Indian Studies. These will include scholars, academics,
authors, writers, journalists, media-persons, artists, etc., and of course the
common man interested in past, present and future of Indian / Vedic Studies. The
Conference is sponsored by WAVES and HUA /IVHU.
Call for Papers: Papers, Panel Presentations, Research presentations,
Poster sessions, Workshop sessions, Forum discussions, exhibit displays and
such related activities in tune with the conference theme are welcome from all
persons /institutions engaged/interested in studying in any field of Vedic/
Sanskrit/ Indian/ Asian /Religious studies. The word ‘Vedic’ is used in a wide
sense to include, not only Vedas, but all different areas of religions,
history, philosophies, practices and cultures of past, present traditions and people based on Vedas.
The conference theme can be addressed critically, reflectively, and creatively
from interdisciplinary perspectives. Papers on any aspect of Indian
studies as related to the conference theme may be submitted. Deliberations will
include perspectives of vedic studies from the platforms of : Religion,
Philosophy, Hindu Identity, ritual, Temple programs, Spirituality, Archaeology,
Anthropology, History & Social
Sciences, Sanskrit and Indic Language, Literature
& Linguistics; Vedic Science & Technology, Documentation of Vedic
traditions, Vedic Mathematics, traditional study of Vedas, Upanishads, upavedas and vedangas, Smirities, Puranas; Epics – Ramayana &
Mahabharat, Gita in relation to Vedas; Vedic commentaries, Vedic manuscripts
and printing, Contemporary Works and
Issues in Dharma – Shastras, Ethics & Rituals; Agriculture, Plant Science
& Ecology; Inter-Religious Dialogue; Veda and Health care, Yoga; Vedas as
inspirational models for best practices in modern Business, Economics &
Administration. The proceedings are planned for publishing. Therefore, you are
requested to send an electronic copy of your completed paper at the earliest.
The presentations are required to be in Power Point format. Direct reading of
papers is strongly discouraged. This
list is illustrative and not exhaustive. We welcome your participation and
suggestions. The suggested topics indicated in the table below is for general guidance.
The
program includes plenary addresses, volunteered papers, invited papers, and
panel discussions and public lectures.
There
will be Poster
sessions, special sessions focused on Vedic sciences and research, youth
committee presentations, Hindu temples presentations, Non-roman script Digital
technologies for web representation and online education of Vedic studies,
Audio-visual exhibits, Practical Vedic religious performances and learning
workshop, exhibits and book-shops are other interesting parts of the
conference.
Participants who are members of professional
associations or societies are encouraged to submit proposals for holding
meetings / workshops in the conference on behalf of their associations/societies.
Please submit the abstract /full paper as per the guideline below before the deadline.
If you have any questions, please send a mail at the
following address:
Suggested
Themes –Topics Guidelines: The following are highlighted themes suggested for deliberation and paper
/panel submission. The list is only indicative and not exhaustive.
Theme
1: What constitutes and qualifies for the classification as Vedic heritage
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- What constitutes Vedic
heritage ? Oral – Scripted? How do we validate the text of traditions?
- What is the role of Vedangas
in preservation and propagation of Vedic heritage?
- Tradition of Vedic heritage
transmission, Gurukulas
- Tradition of Vedangas
heritage transmission
- Tradition of Upaveda heritage
transmission
- Veda – yoga – Tantra, Ayurveda
interrelations in heritage transmissions
- Vedic languages- a study
- Vedic manuscripts, scripting
and printing traditions of Veda / Vedanga
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Theme
2:What is the scope of Vedic Global Welfare- How to deliver it in current
period? How to validate the same?
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- Deployment of Veda Upaveda,
Vedanga for global welfare of health, protection, wealth, harmony, peace.
- Role of temples and religious
institutions
- Vedic Brahmins, priests and
Yogis as deliverers of Vedic welfare
- Monks and orders of
renunciation – authorities on Vedic guidance
- Mimaamsaa - the traditional
‘yajna’ discipline of Vedic ritual
- Historical practices and
cultural practices of welfare connected with Veda
-Vedic Philosophies
-Vedic scholars of past,
present and future
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Theme
3:Transmission of Veda and modes of delivering Veda /Vedic welfare for Next Generation
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- How is the next generation
reckoned in Vedas- concepts of vamsha, kula, gotra, rishi parampara,
sampradaya
- How does the next generation
receive the continuity of text, traditions and practices of veda?
- Moving from limited schema of
varna-ashrama vedic beneficiaries to a global society.
- Digital technologies and
Vedic texts – Vedic digital library
- Health and Veda- Validation
paradigms and models, Spiritual health parameters compared to physical health
parameters
- How should the next
generation learn Vedas – Models of instruction as IE linguistics –Aryan
history model or Traditional model ?
- Vedic education references
and resources building
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Submission
Procedure-Details for
UPLOADING Abstracts-PAPERS:
The submission of
abstracts / papers currently is through the Google groups called:
WAVES-HU-2008. (It is a possibility that we may come up with a simpler direct
submission / upload system; please bear with us. (This Web Group model upload is followed due to the ease of access
to the Google Browser world wide and ready features for documents with web
compatibility offered by the Google
tools.)
If
you are NOT having a Google / GMail ID
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Go
to Home page of Google at www.google.com Choose GROUPS. (Some times, the GROUPS tab may be under the MORE Tab). Search
for WAVES-HU-2008 and reach the home page of the group and follow the steps
to join the group. Alternatively you
can follow this link or copy this to your browser search bar and reach the
home page of the group.
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Follow
the link for JOIN THE GROUP. You may be asked to sign in for the Google Mail
account.
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Alternatively, you may send a mail to sastry.bvk@gmail.com asking for an
invitation to join the group. On receipt and acceptance of the invitation,
you can access the features for uploading the submissions at the group.
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Once
you have access to the group, you can use the tools there for uploading the
files of abstract / full papers/ presentations. (You may try the Google documents features to create your
presentations!)
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If
you are currently having a GMail ID
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Sign
in to your Gmail /Google account. Use the tab of GROUPS and follow the
procedure for joining the group as above.
Alternatively,
you may send a mail to sastry.bvk@gmail.com asking for an invitation to join the group. On receipt and acceptance of the
invitation, you can access the features for uploading the submissions at the
group.
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IF
you are Member of Google Groups /WAVES-HU-2008
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Log
in to your group. Choose the upload file procedure using FILES OPTION under
HOME (right top corner of the Group home page).
IF
you plan to create a presentation using Google Documents (as a power
point/Word /PDF document) you can do this easily on Google using the
available tools. This solves several of the difficulties of web compatibility
of the abstracts submitted, software issues, images, fonts and the like.
For
help on fonts with diacritical marks, non-roman script fonts and symbols –
the suggestion is to use your native editor (Word or any software you prefer;
copy and paste it in to the web browser interface of Google document page. By
using Unicode compatible fonts and saving the Google document as a PDF
format, several difficulties of display can be easily addressed.
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World
Association for Vedic Studies: known by its acronyms ‘WAVES’ is a
multidisciplinary academic society with members of different religions, often
of different scholarly views and varied interests. It welcomes persons
engaged/interested in studying in any field of Vedic/ Indian studies. The
word ‘Vedic’ is used in a wide sense to include, not only Vedas, but all
different areas as well as past, present and future of traditions and people
based on Vedas.
Other six conferences held before were: “Int’l Conference on Revisiting Indus - Saraswati Civilization & Ancient
India”, Atlanta (GA),
October 4-6, 1996, “International
Conference on New Perspectives on Vedic & Ancient Indian Civilization”, Los Angeles (CA), August 7-9, 1998, “International Conference on Contemporary Views on
Indian Civilization”, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, (NJ), July 28-30, 2000,
“India’s Contributions and Influences in
the World”, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (MA) July 12-14, 2002. “India’s Intellectual Traditions In Contemporary
Global Context”, July 9– 11, 2004, University of MD, Washington, DC area. “Vedic Ideas for
Global Harmony and Peace in the Modern Context”, July 8-10, 2006, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
These
conferences, in the past, were attended by persons from Australia, Austria,
Bali (Indonesia), Belgium, Canada, Caribbean, China, Germany, India, Japan,
Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, UK, and USA, etc.
WAVES conferences in the eleven years have always been a
meeting point of all like minded and concerned persons, individual scholars,
researchers and researching /teaching institutions, dedicatedly deliberating on
Vedic studies.
WAVES-2008
conference is scheduled for three days. The deliberations in the conference
cover a total of sixteen invited lectures and around 150 paper presentation
sessions /poster presentations around the conference theme.
Poster
sessions, special sessions focused on Vedic sciences and research, youth
committee presentations, Hindu temples presentations, Non-roman script Digital
technologies for web representation and online education of Vedic studies,
Audio-visual exhibits, Practical Vedic religious performances and learning workshop,
exhibits and book-shops are other interesting parts of the conference.
HUA/IVHU: The mission of International Vedic Hindu University* is to provide
learning, research, and training in a broad spectrum of topics related to Yoga,
Ayurveda, Music, Vedic, Hindu culture. The university aims to establish harmony
among eastern religious thoughts and modern sciences, thereby contributing to
better human understanding and global peace. The university is committed to comprehensive
and liberal education with a broad curriculum at Baccalaureate, Master’s and
Doctoral levels in various areas, providing the students with a practical base
for their complete growth. The university fulfills the growing need of modern
western society to obtain authentic and unbiased understanding of the vast and
rich heritage of Eastern culture, traditions, philosophies, etc.
More at www.hua.edu / www.ivhu.edu