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In 2013, as part of the first phase of the PRISM pro­gramme (more on LILA PRISM here), fif­teen sem­i­nal thinkers who have made re­mark­able con­tri­bu­tions to their fields – rang­ing from Pol­i­tics to Arts, New Media to Tribal Re­search, Media to Grass­roots In­no­va­tion – agreed to col­lab­o­rate with us and de­liver pub­lic lec­tures. This made the LILA PRISM LEC­TURE SE­RIES 2013.

LILA PRISM Lec­ture Se­ries 2013 was an at­tempt to ex­plore some major fields of knowl­edge in the de­vel­op­men­tal con­text of con­tem­po­rary India. This ini­tia­tive found a vi­brant sup­port and fol­low­ing in India and abroad. The 15 speak­ers, be­yond rig­or­ously dis­cussing their spe­cific top­ics, shared with us the dream of a so­ci­ety in which cre­ative ef­forts and mean­ing­ful re­sults are in­te­grally con­nected. They not only posed key ques­tions that must awaken pol­icy mak­ers, but also shared their sug­ges­tions to link their dis­ci­pli­nary sites with the lives of com­mon peo­ple, in a non-in­tru­sive and cre­ative way.

The LILA PRISM se­ries will be fol­lowed by pub­li­ca­tions and other aca­d­e­mic ex­er­cises such as corol­lary sem­i­nars and work­shops, as well as pub­lic in­ter­face pro­grammes, spe­cially de­signed to trans­late and con­vey these mes­sages to dif­fer­ent sec­tions of the so­ci­ety. Through this unique ven­ture, we aim at two ob­jec­tives:

  • Cre­at­ing a hor­i­zon­tal con­tin­uum of knowl­edge
  • Mak­ing a pub­lic in­ter­ven­tion to­wards the fa­cil­i­ta­tion of de­vel­op­ment in a cre­ative, in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary and trans­for­ma­tive man­ner.

The PRISM Lec­ture Se­ries is a demon­stra­tion of the di­verse fields of LILA’s in­ter­est. Our phi­los­o­phy of the translo­cal cel­e­brates the human ge­nius for as­so­ci­a­tion and in­ter­link. It al­lows us to in­te­grate ap­par­ent op­po­sites, to help in­di­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties tran­scend their lim­ited lo­cales, to forge newer re­al­i­ties, and to find meth­ods to con­serve the most pre­cious mo­ments in the march of cul­tures.

yellow band speakers PRISM 2013

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