9:00-9:20 - Between Gandhara and East Asia: A Comparative Study of the Buddha Image in Transcultural Perspective / Ms. Sakshi Ghosh, Dr. Vinay Kumar, Mr. Kasun S. Jayasuriya, Ms. Kajal Sinha
9:20-9:40 - Garuda as a Symbol of Cultural Expression in Ancient Buddhist Art of Mathura and Gandhara / Dr. Raushani Shreyashi
9:40-10:00 - Graphic Piety and Inscribed Agency: Bhikkhunī Donor Symbols in Early South Asian Buddhism / Rev. Kaudagammana Rathanasara, Dr. Vinita Chandra
10:00-10:20 - The ‘Containers’ of Dhamma: Interrogating the reliquary donation practice and its material milieu through archaeological findings of Gandharan Buddhism / Dr. Anand Gupta
10:20-10:40 - Revisiting the Mother Goddesses Concept: Evidences from Pre to Protohistoric Period / Dr. Kavya Swaroop, Dr. Deepika Mishra
10:40-11:00 - Spiritualism and Shamanism in Rock Art / Dr. Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-11:50 - Luxury in Motion: Harappan Beads and Maritime Exchange / PhD Guru Dayal Verma
11:50-12:10 - The Acanthus Motif as a Symbol of Adaptation, Mediation and Cultural Exchange Between India and Greece / Ms. Kajal Sinha, Dr. Vinay Kumar, Mr. Kasun S. Jayasuriya, Ms. Sakshi Ghosh
12:10-12:30 - Understanding Human Consciousness through Rock Paintings: A Cognitive Study of Sohagi Ghat, Rewa Central India / Dr. Saurabh Tripathi, Dr. Deepika Mishra, Ms. Maneesh Tiwari
12:30-12:50 - Beyond the (Virtual) Material: Dwelling, Building, and Identity in Protohistoric Domestic Architecture / Mr. Roberto Malinconico
12:50-13:10 - Quantifying Craftsmanship and Social Cohesion: A Morphometric Analysis of Aurignacian Ivory Beads from the Swabian Jura / Ms. Shuqin Guo, Dr. Marian Vanhaeren, Dr. Sibylle Wolf1, Dr. Nicolas Antunes, Dr. Nicholas Conard
13:10-13:30 - Pleistocene Symbolism Without Symbols: The Evolution of Material Coordination Without Representation / Dr. Corijn van Mazijk
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-14:50 - Legitimizing Authority through Symbols: A Semiotic Analysis of Early Inscriptions in Rōhaṇa, Sri Lanka (300 BCE–100 CE) / Mr. Kasun S Jayasuriya, Dr. Vinay Kumar, Dr. Rose Solangaarachchi, Rev. Kaudagammana Rathanasara
14:50-15:10 - Symbolizing Material Culture: Legitimizing Power over the Kiri Oya Basin Landscape in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka / Dr. Rose Solangaarachchi