The Academic programme will consist of plenary sessions, symposia, special lectures and presentation of papers.

Plenary sessions

Symposia

Special lectures

Subject Areas for the seminar

1. Tamil and world classical language
2. Tamil Literature
3. Grammar
4. Linguistics
5. Dravidian Linguistics
6. Traditional Arts
7. Folk Literature
8. Archaeology
9. Epigraphy and Paleography
10. Numismatics
11. Political and Socio - Economic History
12. Cultural Studies / Comparative Literature
13. Literary Criticism
14. Literary Theory
15. Lexicography
16. Tamil Creative Literature in foreign countries
17. Manuscriptology and Editing
18. Media and Tamil
19. Religion and Tamil
20. Language Movements
21. Translation
22. Language learning
23. Tribal Languages in Tamilnadu
24. Tamil and Philosophy
25. Children Literature
26. New literary genres
27. Tamil and other Indian Languages
28. History of arts, Literature and Culture
29. Creative literature
30. Dialects and Standard Language
31. Etymology
32. Terminology
33. Social Sciences
34. Language Politics
35. Traditional Sciences
36. Tamil Cinema
37. Documentary films
38. Tamil Music
39. Tamil Computer
40. Ecology and Tamil
41. Architecture
42. Siddha Medicine
43. Sculpture
44. Feminism
45. Dalitism
46. Fine Arts
47. Preservation of Books
48. Documentation
49. Little Magazines

50. Indus Civilization and Scripts - Dravidian Connections

51. Science and Tamil

52. Place Names studies

53. Drama

54. Commentators

55. Language Management