Seminar on coastal knowledge systems

Seminar on coastal knowledge systems

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Jan 30, 2015: The Department of Tourism, the Karnataka Janapada Parishat and the Oriental Archives Research Centre will organise a one-day national seminar on ‘Folk-life and knowledge system of coastal Karnataka tribes’ here on Saturday.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, S.A. Krishnaiah, president of the district unit of the parishat, said that topics including the cultural life of the Kudubi community, the women of coastal Karnataka tribes – education and awareness, the food habits of tribal communities, the folk life and the knowledge system of the migrated tribes of Malabar, the olk life and knowledge system of migrated tribes of Konkan, would be discussed. Experts including U.P. Upadhyaya, H.L. Nagegowda, Marine Carrin, Suresh K.P., Vijayakumar N. Phaterpekar, Harald Tambs Lyche, Y. Raghavendra Rao, Saigeeta, Bhairegowda, Jyoti Chelyar, would be participating in the seminar.

Laxminarayana Alva, writer, will preside over the inaugural function of the seminar. Thimmegowda, president of the State unit of Karnataka Janapada Parishat, would deliver the introductory remarks. H.C. Boralingaiah, Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi, will be present.

 

Courtesy: The Hindu