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World Tamil Conference (WTC)
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- The 10th World Tamil Conference (WTC) will be held in Chicago for four days from July 4-7, 2019.
- It will sponsored by,
- International Association of Tamil Research (IATR),
- Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America (FeTNA) and
- Chicago Tamil Sangam (CTS),
- This is for the first time a world Tamil conference is being held on the American soil.
- The Chicago International conference has main stress on “seminar on Tamil studies” with the central theme titled “Keezhadi nam Thai madi” (On our Tamil mother’s lap—Keezhadi excavation).
- It also dedicated to Tamil scholar Revenant G. U. Pope, this being his 200th birth anniversary.
Backround
- The first conference was held in Malaysia in 1966 at the initiative of Thani Nayagam Adigal.
- Three were held in Tamil Nadu in the years 1968, 1981 and 1995.
- The 9th World Tamil Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2015.
| Official title | Host city | Host country | Year | Arranged by |
| 1st World Tamil Conference | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 1966 | Thani Nayagam Adigalar |
| 2nd World Tamil Conference | Chennai | India | 1968 | M. Bhaktavatsalam and C. N. Annadurai |
| 3rd World Tamil Conference | Paris | France | 1970 | |
| 4th World Tamil Conference | Jaffna | Sri Lanka | 1974 | |
| 5th World Tamil Conference | Madurai | India | 1981 | M. G. Ramachandran |
| 6th World Tamil Conference | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 1987 | |
| 7th World Tamil Conference | Port Louis | Mauritius | 1989 | |
| 8th World Tamil Conference | Thanjavur | India | 1995 | J. Jayalalithaa |
| 9th World Tamil Conference | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 2015 | |
| 10th World Tamil Conference | Chicago | USA | 2019 | International Association for Tamil Research, FeTNA & Chicago Tamil Sangam |
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