The main task of the IASS is to organise a World Sanskrit Conference (WSC), usually every three years, at different venues around the world and the New Delhi conference in 1972 has been recognised as the first WSC of the IASS. Over the years the WSCs have been successful in creating cooperation in a number of common causes, both in defence of the discipline and in encouraging important fields of research, while numbers of participants has increased steadily (with particularly large attendances at the conferences held in India: Varanasi in 1981, Bangalore in 1997 and New Delhi in 2012). The WSC in New Delhi in 2012 was the 15th.
Full list of WSCs:
- 19th WSC in Kathmandu, 17-21 December 2024 (https://www.nepalworldsanskrit.org/)
- 18th WSC in Canberra, Australia, 18-22 January 2021 —> moved TO 9-13 JANUARY 2023 ( http://www.wsc2021.com.au )
- 17th WSC in Vancouver, 9–13 July 2018 (https://wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca)
- 16th WSC at Bangkok, Thailand in 2015
- 15th WSC at New Delhi, India in 2012
- 14th WSC at Kyoto, Japan in 2009
- 13th WSC at Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. in 2006
- 12th WSC at Helsinki, Finland in 2003
- 11th WSC at Torino, Italy in 2000
- 10th WSC at Bangalore, India in 1997
- 9th WSC at Melbourne, Australia in 1994
- 8th WSC at Vienna, Austria in 1990
- 7th WSC at Leiden, The Netherlands in 1987
- 6th WSC at Philadelphia, United States of America in 1984
- 5th WSC at Varanasi, India in 1981
- 4th WSC at Weimar, German Democratic Republic in 1979
- 3rd WSC at Paris, France in 1977
- 2nd WSC at Torino, Italy in 1975
- 1st WSC at New Delhi, India in 1972
Forthcoming World Sanskrit Conferences:
- 20th WSC in Mumbai, IIT Bombay, India, in 2027 (Details to follow later)
