Panel Proposal

During the Conference, a number of Thematic Panels will be organized. Proposals for organising panels are invited from scholars and institutions.

Each panel proposal should contain the following:

• Title of the panel and a description of the Panel's theme.
• Titles, authors and abstracts (about 700 words) of the papers to be presented.
• Names, affiliations and brief biographies of about 100 words along with a digital high-resolution picture to be submitted for each proposed panelists/speakers.
• Name, contact and high-resolution logo of the Panel Organiser/s
• Social media handles (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) of participants and institutions.

Note: A Thematic Panel Session will comprise of 4-5 paper presentations. The organisers/coordinators of each Thematic Panel Session are expected to be in charge of the Panel Discussion, including raising resources for speakers' travel and other expenditure. Panel Registration fee of ₹ 50,000 for institutions within India or US $ 1000 in case of institutions outside India will cover overhead costs including printing, photography, videography, documentation, booklets containing details of the panels, brand visibility, promotions etc.

The proposals may be emailed to iassi.conference@gmail.com and mail@iassi.org latest by 25 September 2024.

Best Paper Awards and Fellowship

The ISLE provides 1award and 1 fellowship to young scholars below 40 years of age.

Surjit Singh Fellowship
Prof. Surjit Singh was the Honorary Secretary of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) since 2009 and continued to hold the post till his sudden demise in December 2013. His association with the Society goes back to the early 1990s. Under his able leadership, Prof. Surjit Singh successfully organized the ISLE conference of 2004 at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Jaipur. His contribution and commitment to the ISLE is cherished widely by members of the Society through these years. His sudden demise was a huge loss to the ISLE and the community of economists and social scientists at large. His wife and daughter gave an endowment fund in his memory for supporting the promotion of research in the field of labour economics.

Since 2015, the Society has been giving one Fellowship to a young labour economist below the age of 40 years for undertaking research in the field of labour and employment studies. The research paper should be related to one of the identified themes for the ISLE conference of the year. It should be an original work and not be based on the applicant’s earlier works; including PhD thesis of the applicant. An Expert Committee would scrutinize the applications and select the candidate for awarding the Fellowship. The awardee is expected to prepare an empirical paper in about 10,000 words (including tables and appendices) and present at the ISLE Conference during that year. The revised paper/monograph would be submitted by the awardee after two months of the ISLE Conference. Apart from a certificate, the award would include an amount of Rs 40,000.

Interested scholars may please share their proposal along with a cover letter to ISLE Secretary at conference.isle@gmail.com

Best Paper Award
The Ruddar Datt Memorial Award and L. K. Deshpande Labour Economist Awards (each carrying an award of Rs.10,000) will be awarded to the authors of the best papers at the Conference. Only authors who are below 40 years of age will be considered for these awards. The papers on any of the Conference themes to be considered for the award should be presented by the paper writers themselves. Contributors who wish to be considered for these awards are requested to furnish proof of their age along with their paper.

Interested scholars may please follow the link conference.isleijle.org for their paper submission or write to us as at conference.isle@gmail.com