GUWAHATI:
The 47th All India Sociological Conference organised by the Indian Sociological Society will be held at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) from December 20 to 22.
The national conference will be joined by over 1000 sociologists from various colleges and universities in all the states of the country.
Assam Governor, Jagdish Mukhi, will inaugurate the conference on December 20. The theme of the conference is “Hundred Years of Sociology in India: Exploring Trajectories for the Future”.
Prof TK Oommen, Padma Bhushan, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, will make the keynote address titled “On the Foibles of Indian Sociology: Suggestions Towards their Rectification”.
Prof BI Laskar, organizing secretary, 47th All India Sociological Conference, said that this three-day-long mega sociological event would have three memorial lectures, three plenary sessions, and 29 technical sessions apart from the inaugural and valedictory sessions. The conference schedule also includes lifetime achievement awards, memorial prizes, book launches etc.
Some titles of the various sessions of the conference are: A Century of Sociology in India: Teaching and Research, Northeast in Sociological and Social Anthropological Studies: Emerging Issues and Concerns, Sociology and Social Policy Interface: The Roadmap for the Post – Covid World, Paradoxes and Trajectories of Development: State and Tribes in India, The New in the Old: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modernization of Indian Tradition.