Conferences
Collaborating with various academic institutions around the world, the Institute organizes International and National Conferences around the world. From First World Congress on Synthesis of Science and Religion, held at Mumbai India in 1987 where Nobel Laureate George Wald from Harvard University gave Keynote Address to many conferences such as – First International Conferences on the Study of Consciousness within Science, San Francisco, 1990 ( John Eccles , Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine gave one of the Keynote Addresses); Second World Congress on Synthesis of Science and Religion held at Calcutta, India, 1997, where Nobel Laureate in Physics Charles Townes presented the Keynote Address; Second International Congress on Life and its Origin – Perspectives from Science and Spiritual traditions held at Rome, 2004; to several other conferences. Besides, the Institute launched annual conferences in India on Science and Spiritual Quest from 2005 which are held every year since then and are supported by Dept. of Science and Technology of Govt. of India. The 2010 conference held in the capital city of India, Delhi was inaugurated by the President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil herself and she expressed the need of holding these conferences regularly for helping entire humanity. The proceedings volume of many of these conferences containing papers of all the distinguished scientists and scholars participated are also available.
Some of these are reflected below:
National Conferences and Symposiums:
- A symposium on “Consciousness and the Origin of Life”, (1978)
- Ayurvedic conference entitled “Health and Consciousness”, (1978)Conference on “The Model and Structure of the Universe”, (1981)
- International symposium on Science and Religion, (1981)
- 2017: A unique Conference on Quantum Physics and Consciousness, Kolkata with over 300 Delegates.
- 2017: Science, Religion & World Peace, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
- One Day Conference on Synthesis of Science & Spirituality for Holistic Development, IISc, Bangalore, (2017)