SInce 2005, every year Berkeley has hosted an annual conference on Tamil studies that has brought together the leading scholars and academics focusing on Tamil studies. This conference is now counted among some of the most inportant academic conferences in this field.
9th Tamil Conference 2013 | Reading Tamil Publics: Questions of Audience
8th Tamil Conference 2012 | Beauty: Goddesses, Queens & Women
7th Tamil Conference 2011 | Tamil Marapu (Traditions)
6th Tamil Conference 2010 | Kālam
5th Tamil Conference 2009 | The Land of the Pandyas
4th Tamil Conference 2008 | Researching Many Paths
3rd Tamil Conference 2007 | Bridges
2nd Tamil Conference 2006 | The Time of the Cholas 900-1300 CE
1st Tamil Conference 2005 | Kōyil: Invention, Imagination, Transmission