37.3258, Confs: Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar - Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI (India)

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Date: 08-Oct-2026
From: Rakhi N K [rakhi.nk at vitap.ac.in]
Subject: Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar - Indian Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI


Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar - Indian Languages and Shared Expression in
the Age of Digital Media and AI
Short Title: Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar

Date: 02-Dec-2026 - 03-Dec-2026
Location: Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Contact: Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti
Contact Email: bharatiyabhasha.conference at vitap.ac.in

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Submission Deadline: 10-Nov-2026

VIT-AP University in collaboration with Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti,
Ministry of Education, Government of India is pleased to announce a
Two-Day National Conference - Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar - Indian
Languages and Shared Expression in the Age of Digital Media and AI to
be held at VIT-AP University Amaravati, AP.
The languages of India have long met one another in markets and on
pilgrim routes, in courts and households, in songs, proverbs and the
telling of tales. Stories travel across them with remarkable ease, and
the verses of a single poet are often sung in several tongues. Such
shared expression, carried as much by voice and memory as by script,
remains one of the defining features of linguistic life in the
subcontinent.
Digital media and artificial intelligence have entered this history
within the space of a few decades. Platforms, archives, translation
tools and language models are changing how Indian languages are
written, heard, documented and studied, opening new possibilities
while raising questions of access, representation and care. The School
of Social Sciences and Humanities, VIT-AP University, invites
scholars, researchers, translators, writers and practitioners to
reflect on this moment together at a two-day national conference held
in collaboration with the Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of
Education, Government of India.
Contributions may take the form of close readings, fieldwork, archival
study, theoretical reflection or computational analysis, and may draw
on literature, folklore, translation, media, education or technology.
Papers that move between two or more Indian languages, or that bring
lesser-known languages into the conversation, are especially welcome.
Questions the conference hopes to open:
 - How do stories, motifs and proverbs move between Indian languages,
and what changes in the crossing?
 - What do oral traditions preserve that writing, and now data, may
overlook?
 - How are digital platforms and language technologies reshaping the
everyday life of Indian languages?
 - Whose languages are present in the archives and corpora on which AI
is built, and whose are absent?
 - What might humanistic scholarship and computational methods learn
from one another?
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following themes:
 - Contact, convergence and areal features in Indian languages
 - Interconnection among Indian languages: theoretical and
methodological approaches
 - Oral traditions, epic and folk narrative, and performance as
vehicles of shared expression
 - Shared motifs, metaphors, proverbs and conceptual vocabulary across
Indian languages
 - Language in everyday cultural life: kinship, ritual, festival and
foodways
 - Indian languages in digital media, social media and online cultures
 - Cinema, translation, dubbing and subtitling across Indian languages
 - Song, music and the circulation of lyrical forms
 - Computational linguistics and natural language processing for
Indian languages
 - Machine learning, large language models and speech technologies for
Indian languages
 - Machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval
 - Computational approaches to comparative analysis of narrative,
lexicon and meaning
 - Multilingual corpora, digital archives and the documentation of
lesser-known languages
 - Scripts, digitisation and multilingual interfaces
 - Mother tongues and multilingual education
 - Ethics, representation, bias and community ownership in language
technologies
Those wishing to present are invited to send an abstract of 200 to 250
words, with five keywords and a short biographical note, to
bharatiyabhasha.conference at vitap.ac.in on or before 10 November 2026.
Contributors will hear from the organisers by 15 November 2026,
together with details of registration. Full paper submissions by 25
Nov 2026.



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