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Recent Updates

1. Key Note Speaker: Frederick T.L. Leong, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, USA.

2. Details regarding accommodation has been updated.

3. Outstanding manuscripts presented at the IAEVG-Jiva International Conference will be carried in a special issue of the International Journal of Educational and Vocational Guidance. Check our Publications page for details.

Conference Objective

• To draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to consider both universal and specific principles for guidance and counselling that are socially and economically relevant to the contemporary situation.

Jiva Partner

Academic Partner

Dr. Shanti Pappu

Founder/director of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, and Sharma Children's Museum, Chennai/Pune, India.

Dr. Pappu is an archaeologist who obtained her MA. and Ph.D from the Deccan College of Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune, India. She is also a former Homi Bhabha fellow, a Charles Wallace Fellow for conducting research at the University of Cambridge and Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, U.K.

She was awarded the Prof. H.D. Sankalia medal for standing first in M.A, the Prof. H.D. Sankalia young archaeologist award, and the Young Scientist award of the Earthwatch Institute, USA. She has been actively involved in archaeological research in Tamil Nadu since 1991, and has been excavating the prehistoric site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu. Her projects have been funded by the Leakey Foundation, Earthwatch Institute, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Indian Space Research Organisation and Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre, Bengaluru, and Sharma Centre for Heritage Education. Dr. Pappu has published a book, a monograph, and more than 20 research papers in Indian and peer-reviewed international journals.

She has participated in seminars and conferences in India, USA, U.K., Israel, Sri Lanka, China and France, and has organised themes in conferences. She was a consultant to the State Department of Archaeology, Government of TamilNadu for excavations and analysis of prehistoric finds. She is a member of various national and international societies and is currently joint editor of the journal Man and Environment.

The Sharma Centre for Heritage Education has a strong social commitment towards generating popular awareness of issues in Indian heritage (natural and cultural) and organises workshops for teachers, students, villagers, and other stake-holders. Dr. Pappu, has published numerous popular articles on archaeology and one book for children on this subject.

Dr. Pappu and the Jiva Conference
The past holds the keys to the present and the future. Dr. Pappu will work with interested delegates to mount an exhibition that will explore the history of work in the context of modernisation. For details do take a look at 'Hunters to Hotels' under Special Session