Archives at NCBS : Events
Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences
Public Lecture Series
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A monthly series framed around explorations in and around archives. Discussions by archivists, artists, historians, teachers, journalists, scientists and others.
Public Lecture Series: Upcoming Event
Friday, June 17 2022. 5:00 PM
Title: TBD
Shabnam Virmani
Location:TBD
Public Lecture Series: Event Archives
Urvashi ButaliaFaculty Hall, Main Building, IIScIn collaboration with IISC Archives and Centre for Public History
Sundar SarukkaiLecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Understanding InequalityReetika KheraArchives at NCBS, in collaboration with St Joseph's College, Azim Premji University and IIIT Bangalore
People of the Brahmaputra: On Crisis, Care and Complex RelationshipsSanjoy Hazarika
In Digital Exile: Narrating urban histories: https://metromod.net/Rachel Lee, Mareike Hetschold and Laura Karp Lugo
Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
The extent of virtue: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to HelpLarissa MacFarquhar, in conversation with Samanth Subramanian
People make their own map: Citizenship and belonging in South AsiaSuchitra Vijayan, in conversation with M Rajshekhar
Archiving GriefJohn Mathew, Krea University
Ornamented Elephants, the Lowly Pida, and the Turbaned Man: Ruminations from the margins of designSarita Sundar in conversation with Suresh Venkat
This thing called the Internet: Infrastructure, governance and rightsAshwin J Mathew, King’s College LondonApar Gupta, Internet Freedom Foundation
4:00 PM – Public lecture by Janaki Nair: The demands for a past and the (im)possibility of the archiveDiscussant: Indira ChowdhuryMariam Ram (TNQ Technologies), S Ramakrishnan (Director, TIFR), Satyajit Mayor (Centre Director, NCBS)
G Sundar, Roja Muthiah Research Library
Who's Afraid of an Emergency?Rochelle Pinto and Maya Dodd
Remembering Queer Lives: Silence, memory and building a collective historyArvind Narrain, in conversation with T Jayashree and Rahul Rao
TM Krishna
Aparna Vaidik, Ashoka UniversityDanish Husain, The Hoshruba Repertory
Alok Sarin, Sitaram Bhartia HospitalSanjeev Jain, NIMHANSModerator: Zehra Mehdi, Columbia University
Jasmeen Patheja and the Blank Noise TeamRegistration for online lecture: https://tinyurl.com/APLS-20200619Livestream: https://tinyurl.com/BLiSCLive
Monday, June 8 - Sunday, June 14 2020
Speaker details and registration: https://bit.ly/IAW2020-Milli and http://milli.link/
Pankaj Sekhsaria, IIT Bombay. In conversation with Cyrus Mody, Maastricht University.Registration for online lecture: https://tinyurl.com/APLS-20200515Livestream: https://tinyurl.com/BLiSCLive
Update on March 14 2020
POSTPONED:
As a precautionary measure in response to COVID-19 related concerns, the public lecture scheduled for Mar 20 2020 is postponed till further notice.
Original Notice:
Friday, Mar 20 2020, 4:00 pm
The Dyeing Craft: A story of Indian block printing, colour and identity. Workshop and Public Lecture
Anella Jasuja and Akola PrintersLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Monday, Feb 10 2020 - Friday, Feb 21 2019. 9 am - 4 pm
Malgova Auditorium, NCBS.The Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, announces the first Winter School in Public History 2020: Public Lives of Objects This Winter School is being held in partnership with the Archives at NCBS, Bangalore.
Herbs, Maps & Medicine: An interpretive exhibition of commerce and spiceExhibition Curator: Anna Spudich. Design: Abhishek Ray and Matrika Design Collaborative. Writer: Gayathri VaidyanathanPanel Discussion with Anna Spudich (over Skype), Abhishek Ray and Ines G Županov. Moderated by Marialaura Ghidini.Lecture Hall - 1, NCBS.
Wednesday, Feb 12 2020, 4:00 pm
The Lives of Objects: Tracing the Past in the PresentPanellists: Klaus Staubermann, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Swarup Bhattacharyya, Sarita Sundar.Panel Chair: Roland WittjeLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
The Transformative Constitution
Gautam BhatiaDasheri Auditorium, NCBS
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane
Samanth SubramanianLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Body politic(s): A recent history of technology, databases and the human person
Usha RamanathanLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
In these Times: Three Conversations against Hatred
V Geetha, Tara BooksDasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Thursday, Sep 12 2019, 4 pm
When Farmers Die: Inequality and the Agrarian Crisis
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Friday, Sep 13 2019, 4 pm
Telling the Stories of 833 Million Indians: PARI and reporting in the digital age
P SainathDasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Friday, Aug 23 2019, 4 pm
Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound from the 19th to the 20th centuryLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
The Edge of Nature: History, Ecology and the FutureDasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Renaissance & Revolution: Cartography in the Early Modern WorldLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Women’s Lives, Women’s Words: Some Thoughts on Feminism as Experience and Writing Women into HistoryLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Archives Public Lecture Series: April Double Bill
The Himalaya: People, place and ecology
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Marching across the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Shekhar PathakDasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Letters Swallow Themselves in Seconds: A lecture-performance
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Through Two Doors at Once: Quantum mechanics and the Anatomy of an Elegant Experiment
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Winter School in Oral History 2019
Monday, Feb 11 2019 - Friday, Feb 22 2019. 9 am - 4 pm
The Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, announces the Winter School in Oral History 2019: Community, Environment and Oral History: Individual and Collective Memory. This Winter School is being held in partnership with the Archives at NCBS, Bangalore.
Raspuri Teaching Lab, Archives at NCBS.
Archives at NCBS: Public Opening
Archives at NCBS: Public Opening events
Opening talk by Sanjeev JainLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus) and Archives at NCBS.
Archives at NCBS: Opening Exhibition
Archives at NCBS: Opening Exhibition tours
Curators: Srajana Kaikini, Naveen Mahantesh, Meera BaindurPublic Gallery, Archives at NCBS.
Archives Public Lecture Series: December Double Bill
Pacifying atoms: Nuclear histories -- the Mexican case to be or not to be nuclear (1950-1970)
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Recovering Nature in Crowded India
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
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Enabling Education: Stories and trajectories from education policies in India
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Surveillance Stories: Optimizing rights and governance
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Market menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Deconstructing Art: Tales of Craft, Science, and History in Heritage ConservationAnupam Sah, Art Conservation Centre, CSMVS Museum, MumbaiLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
In pursuit of proof, A history of identification documents in IndiaTarangini Sriraman, Azim Premji UniversityLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Historical accident or path dependence? Science, technology, industry, and the state in 20th century BangaloreBalaji Parthasarathy, IIIT Bangalore.Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Indira Chowdhury, Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and TechnologyLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
P. Balaram, Indian Institute of ScienceLecture Hall -1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018. 2:00pm.
Seema Mundoli, School of Development, Azim Premji UniversityLecture Hall -1 (Haapus), NCBS.