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International Conference "Facets of Tamil Diaspora"
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Tamil expansion all over the world, except Latin America, has been partly studied, but never systematically in a global perspective. Such was the aim of a Conference organized at IFP on March 14-16, 2007, gathering international academic participants from Europe to Sri Lanka.
Cultural contexts of migration in the past provided the initial setting for the discussion on the panoramic view of Tamil Diasporic lives in Canada, France, Norway, Reunion and Seychelles Islands and that ranged from personal narratives to issues of language teaching. Cultural encounters took the centre stage of the discussions, with the new roles that Theatre and New Media like Internet have come to play in the social life of the Diasporic communities.
The Conference was organised at the IFP by the Department of Tamil Literature , Madras University and by the IFP’s Programme of Contemporary Tamil Culture. This strengthened collaboration with Indian academic institutions, the diversity of origin of the participants and a large audience of post-graduate students, establish the IFP as an international research forum.
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http://www.ifpindia.org/Facets-of-Tamil-Diaspora.html