IASFS has so far organized 15 National and 6 International Science Fiction conferences at different locations in India. The first conference was attended only by a dozen delegates. But from the second conference there was no turning back. The Association had begun to collaborate with many Colleges, Universities, Local Bodies and Institutions in organizing conferences. Hence, it could bring together hundreds of academicians, scholars, scientists, writers, publishers, critics, movie makers, journalists, fans, webmasters, industrialists, technologists, farmers and readers. So far the Annual Conferences were held at Chennai, Coimbatore, Gandhigram, Gudiattam and Vellore in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore, Yelahatti and Mysore in Karnataka, Varanasi in UP, Aurangabad and Pune in Maharashtra States, Pondicherry a Union Territory and Ernakulum in Kerala State in India. During the annual conferences, participants have shown keen interest in discussing the following topics: the forms of science fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Cinema and SF, “Science Fiction Film : Seventy Years of Synergy, 1926 to 2003”, Aliens, A Tribute to Kalpana Chowla, Technology and Science Fiction, Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Hindi SF, Indian Responses to World SF, Indian SF in Vernacular languages, Literary Criticism on Indian SF, Myth, Fantasy, Utopia, Feminism, Colonialism, Popular Science, Genetic Engineering, Robotics, Media and SF, Information Technology, Nanotechnology, Print versus Visual SF, Science and Science Fiction, Space travel, Time, Science Fiction Today, Science Today, SF and Mainstream Fiction, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary prospective, SF Narration, SF the Human Aspect, Women in Science Fiction, SF & Technology and others. Each conference had plenary sessions and story reading sessions by respective authors in addition to paper presentation. IASFS had also arranged an SF Story Writing Workshop conducted by Eric Miller and story reading session by respective SF writers. The association had a video conference with Professor James E Gunn Director, Center for Science Fiction Studies, Kansas University, Kansas, USA.
Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies is organizing the 21st Annual/6th International Virtual Conference on July 17-20, 2022 in collaboration with a number of prestigious organizations.
The 20th Annual SF conference is a recent milestone in the path of progress of IASFS. This Virtual Conference was held during the last week of August 2021 in collaboration with ISFWA, Ayodhya. UP; Kalpabishwa, Kolkata, West Bengal; Marathi Vidnyan Parishad, Mumbai; Malayalam SF Association, Kerala; and the host institution Deogiri College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra state.
- Dr. Srinarahari, Secretary – General, For Team IASFS
20th Annual Science Fiction Conference:
Report of the 2oth Conference by Dr.Srinarahari
Video links: Distinguished Guest Lectures:
Audio speech: Purushothaman
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DqoY1DogchsZ8_HeYKcDdXsqsKOaC_OH/view?usp=sharing;
Inaugural Address:
Dinkar Charak
Dinker Charak – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Damien Walter
Damien Walter @ 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Mugdha Sinha
Mugdha Sinha – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Bal Phondke
Dr Bal Phondke – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Srinarahari
Dr M H Srinarahari – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Arvind Mishra
Dr. Arvind Mishra – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Gautham Shenoy
T Gautham Shenoy – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Supriyo Das
Supriyo Das – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Dip Ghosh
Dip Ghosh – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Sowmya Murukesh
Sowmya Murukesh Releases Insight – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Shantala
Dr Shantala on Her Book 3019 AD – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Kiran Kumar Singh
Kiran Kumar Singh on His Book The Five Friends: Battle Against Aliens – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Others
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVZoHvVUK1Rnv9dZjrUiNww
Subha Das Moulick & Sudipto Shankar Roy
Subha Das Maulik & Sudipto Shankar Roy – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Unnikrishnan
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iK9OQpSp6RCEo5okvLzrwpRai2KIGUke/view?usp=sharing;
Pradeep Kumar Sengupta
Ranjan Garge:
Ravi Kopparapu
Harish Goyal
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dm3nnG1wnJJ8aACO4IFJtG8JzKwirnNz/view?usp=sharing;
Sumit Bardan
Sumit Bardhan – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Harish Yadav; Magic show:
Magic Show by Harish Yadav – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Valedictory address:
AP Jayaraman
A P Jayaraman – 20th Annual National Virtual Science Fiction Conference, India
Courtesy: IASFS is indebted to the Mr. Dinkar Charak who has been generous enough to in taking pains in editting, arranging the videos of the Conference. We owe to http://www.adhbut.in for permiting us to copy the links created by the webmaster.
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The association has organized the 19th Annual/5th International Science Fiction Virtual Conference in collaboration with Bangalore University, Bangalore on, December 7,8, 9, & 10, 2020. The unique feature of the conference is that all the 52 PG departments of the University, Sci-Fi fans, media and the general public had converged at “All Roads to Science Fiction” as ISFC -2020. There were themes varying from Myth to advanced technology and to the life in other worlds. The conference was inaugurated by Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka State, The Hon. Deputy Chief Minister & The Minister for Higher Education, Hon.Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Hon. Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University, Nobel Laureate Professor Didier Patrick Queloz (Keynote- Physics 2019), had made their august presence. Plenary sessions, presentations, special lectures, interviews, panel discussions, narrating stories of tomorrow variety of programs from the PG department of Performing Arts and others were the highlights of this mega event.
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