Chronology of All India Sociological Conferences (AISCs)

Chronology of All India Sociological Conferences (AISCs)

S. No. Year & Date Venue Themes
1995-1960
I 1955 Dehradun Social Change
II 1957 Patna
III 1958 Calcutta
IV 1959 Lucknow Psychology, Social Stratification
V 1960 Agra
1961-1970
VI 1961 Sagar
VII 14-16 Oct, 1967 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay Sociological Prerequisites of Democratic Polity, Education and Social Change, Industrialisation and its Social Consequences
VIII 1-3 Sept, 1968 Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University, Agra Religion and Modernisation, Political Sociology, Changing Patterns of Stratification
IX 22-25 Nov, 1969 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, New Delhi Gandhi’s Contribution to Indian Thought and Action, Science, Technology and Society, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Kinship, Education and Society and Teaching Sociology in Regional Languages
X 26-28 Dec, 1970 Osmania University, Hyderabad Sociology of National Integration, Socialist Revolution, Sociology of Social Organisation
1971-1980
XI 28-30 April, 1972 Gujarat University Ahmadabad Social Demography, Sociology of Development, Changing Pattern of Caste, Urbanism and Urbanisation
XII 28-30 Oct, 1974 Banaras Hindu University Varanasi Sociology of Conflict, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Law
XIII 26-28 Dec, 1976 Punjab University, Chandigarh Sociologist Observer, Analyst or Interventionist, Sociology of Social Movements, Sociology of Peasant and Workers, Towards reorientation of Teaching and Research in Sociology
XIV 28-30 Dec, 1978 Jabalpur University, Jabalpur Education Policies in India, Transformation of Tribal Societies, Changing Status of Women
XV 2-4 Nov, 1980 Meerut University, Meerut Social Stratification, Family, Social Change
1981-1990
XVI 29-31 Dec, 1982 Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu Caste, Class and Gender
XVII 27-29 Dec, 1984 South Gujarat University, Surat Social Action for Change, Ethnicity and Ethnic Processes
XVIII 19-21 May, 1987 North Eastern Hill University, Shilong Sociology and Social Transformation
XIX 3-5 March, 1989 Haryana Agriculture University, Hissar Rural Development
1991-2000
XX 29-31 Dec, 1993 Saint Aloyius College, Mangalore Identity, Equality and Social Transformation
XXI 19-21 Dec, 1994 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Cultural Dimensions of Social Change
XXII 16-18 Dec, 1995 Barkatullah University, Bhopal Challenge of Change and Indian Sociology Retrospect and Bhopal Prospects
XXIII 23-25 Nov, 1996 Shivaji University, Kolhapur Ecology, Society and Culture
XXIV 22-24 Dec, 1997 Osmaia University, Hyderabad Fifty Years of India’s Independence and Beyond
XXV 17-19 Dec, 1998 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Nation, Nationality and National Identity: South Asia
XXVI 2-31 Dec, 2000 University of Kerala, Thiruvantapuram Civil Society in India
2001-2010
XXVII 26-28 Dec, 2001 Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Half a Century of Sociology in India (1951-2001) Challenges, Responses and Expectations
XXVIII 18-20 Dec, 2002 IIT, Kanpur Globalisation and the Indian Society
XXIX 21-23 Dec, 2003 Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur Social Policy Governance and Mobilisation
XXX 27-29 Dec, 2004 DDU University, Gorakhpur National Policy of Social Sciences
XXXI 25-27 Oct, 2005 University of Jammu, Jammu Redesigning Sociology, Teaching and Research
XXXII 27-29 Dec, 2006 University of Madras, Chennai Science, Technology and Society
XXXIII 28-29 Dec, 2007 Karnatak University, Dharwad State, Civil Society and Social Justice
XXXIV 27-29 Dec, 2008 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur Youth, Globalisation and Social Transformation
XXXV 10-12 Oct, 2009 University of Kashmir, Srinagar Identity, Development and Nation Building
XXXVI 27-29 Dec, 2010 Ravenshaw University, Cuttack Development, Polity and Social Tensions
2011-2018
XXXVII 11-13 Dec, 2011 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Sociology and the Crises of Social Transformation in India
XXXVIII 27-29 Dec, 2012 Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur Contemporary Indian Society: Challenges and Responses
XXXIX 27-29 Dec, 2013 Karnataka State Open University, Mysore Inequality, Social Justice and Empowerment
XL 29-30 Nov-1 Dec, 2014 Department of Sociology, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi Development, Diversity and Democracy
XLI 27-29 Dec, 2015 Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Development, Marginalisation and People’s Movements
XLII 27-30 Dec, 2016 Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Tezpur Rethinking Sociological Traditions of India
XLIII 9-12 Nov, 2017 Department of Sociology, Lucknow University, Lucknow Neo- Liberalism, Consumption and Culture
XLIV 27-29 Dec,2018 St. Philomena’s College (Autonomous) Bannimantap, Mysuru Karnataka Reconstructing Sociological Discourses in India: Perspectives from the Margins
XLV 27-29 Dec,2019 Department of Sociology, Kariavattom Campus, University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Environment, Culture and Development: Discourses and Intersections
XLVI 8-10 Dec 2021 Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai Constitution, Citizenship and Minorities: Mapping Seventy Years of Indian Republic
XLVII 20-22 Dec 2022 University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya Hundred Years of Sociology in India: Exploring Trajectories for the Future
XLVIII 28-30 Dec 2023 Department of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT, Vellore The Crisis of the 21st Century and the Way Forward
XLIX 22-24 Dec 2024 School of Liberal Studies, BML, Munjal University, Gurugram Sociology, Development and Democracy

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