National Folklore Conference

The three-day National Seminar of South Indian Folklore Society,was hosted by the Malayalam University. It was inaugurated on 9 May 2015 by Dr. B.A.Vivek Rai, the ex-Vice Chancellor of Karnataka University. The main speech was made by Prof. N.Bhakthavalsala Reddy. In the conference which had more than 250 participants from the different South Indian states, about 300 papers were presented. Dr. Raghavan Payyanad and Prof. M.Sreenathan also spoke on the occasion. In the closing ceremony held on May 11th, Dr. G. Gopakumar, Vice Chancellor of Central University of Kasargod, was the chief guest.