Professor Deepti Ganapathy, Visiting Faculty, IIM Indore, was invited to present a paper at the International Association for Media and Communication Research 2016 Conference, held at University of Leicester from July 27-August 31, 2016. The conference theme of Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking back, looking forward provided an opportunity to media and communication scholars from 77 countries to present their research. Professor Ganapathy’s paper ‘Palm Leaf Manuscripts in India: Preserving Their Antiquity for the Millennials’ was awarded the IAMCR Travel Grant.
In addition to this, Professor Ganapathy also conducted a workshop at the 2016 East-West Centre International Media Conference in New Delhi on September 11, 2016 on ‘Social Media tools for Social Entrepreneurship’. East West Centre was established by the US Congress in 1960 at the University of Hawaii, as an educational and research centre.