World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES), Inc.

                                  (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                                  

THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT  CONFERENCE UPDATES

EXTENSION OF DATES - FOR ABSTRACTS /PAPERS/ REGISTRATION  

Deadline  EXTENDED For receiving abstracts UP TO :  MARCH 31,2008  

(Letters of Acceptance if needed may please be asked specifically)

Deadline EXTENDED For full length papers UP TO:  APR  30, 2008  

(Without full –final papers and confirmed participation, allotting the timeslots in the conference program may be difficult.)  

 

CONFERENCE UPDATES 

Prominent Confirmed  scholars

Prof. Arvind Sharma, USA

Sh. Rajiv Malhotra, USA

Dr. T. S. Rukmani, Canada

Dr. Bala V Manyam, India

Dr. Satya Prakash Agarwal, USA

Dr. Bisraam Rambilass, South Africa

Er.Himendra Thakur, USA

Dr. Sitanshu Shekhar Chakravarty, Canada

Dr. Sunil Bhattacharya, India

Dr. S.KalyanaRaman, India

 

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 . 

The program includes poster sessions, plenary addresses, volunteered papers, invited papers, panel discussions, and public lectures.

There will be 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.

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 :

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.

 
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: sairam@aol.com or sastry.bvk@gmail.com

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? 

Theme 2:What is the scope of Vedic Global Welfare- How to deliver it in current period? How to validate the same?

Theme 3:Transmission of Veda and modes of delivering Veda /Vedic welfare for Next Generation

 

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

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.

http://groups.google.com/group/waves-hu-2008

Follow the link for JOIN THE GROUP. You may be asked to sign in for the Google Mail account.

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.

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!)

If you are currently having a GMail ID

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.

IF you are Member of Google Groups /WAVES-HU-2008

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.

 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.