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