Special Lecture Series Bhasha organizes conferences, seminars, workshops and cultural festivals to raise awareness of issues related to adivasis. Shortly after the Bhasha Trust was established, it was decided to institute an annual lecture series named after Dr. Verrier Elwin in memory of his significant contribution to documenting adivasi cultural heritage and to defining India’s official policy of adivasi development. Since 1997 nine lectures have been given. 1997: Prof K. G. Subramanian, Discovering Each Other 1998: Smt. Mahasweta Devi, Denotified & Nomadic Tribes 1999: Dr. Ramachandra Guha, The Nine Lives of Verrier Elwin 2000: Smt. Jaya Jaitly, Tribal Identity Through Craft 2001: Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah, Tribals : The Present and The Future 2002: Shri Rajmohan Gandhi, Beyond Religion 2003: Dr. Gail Omvedt, Notes Toward A History of Bhills 2004: Prof. Ram Dayal Nunda, Challenges To Tribal Development 2005: Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, The imagination of the future Adivasi Academy has commenced the Academy Foundation Lecture series. The inaugural lecture of which was delivered by Dr K. K. Chakravarty, (IAS) Former Director General of the National Museum at Delhi on “The Legitimacy of Diversity in a Cultural Mapping” in 2005 The second lecture was delivered by Dr. B. D. Sharma on ‘Development with Equity’ in November 2006. The third Lecture was delivered by Shri Narayanbhai Desai on ‘'Gandhi and Non-Violence' in 2007 The fourth lecture was delivered by Dr Sudha Gopalkrishna on ‘'Oral literary traditions' in 2008 In addition a number of other conferences and seminars have been hosted by Bhasha related to adivasis and nomadic communities in India. |