Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences
archives.ncbs.res.in
 
 
Upcoming Event:
 
 
 
Feb 4, 2024. 4:00 PM
TBD
 
 
Public Lecture Series: Archives
A monthly series framed around explorations in and around archives. Discussions by archivists, artists, historians, teachers, journalists, scientists and others.
 
 
 
Sunday, Nov 26 2023. 4:00 PM
Arun K Thiruvengadam, in conversation with Usha Ramanathan
Champaca Bookstore, off Queens Road
 
Thursday, Oct 19 2023
Building (for) Biology: The NCBS campus
3 PM: NCBS Reception: Starting point for a historical walk through campus in collaboration with the NCBS Communications Office
 
Friday, Sep 15 2023. 6:00 PM
Shomona Khanna, in conversation with Radhika Chitkara
Alternative Law Forum, Shivaji Nagar
 
Friday, Aug 18 2023. 5:00 PM
Peggy Mohan 
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
 
Tuesday, Aug 1 2023. 11:00 AM
Anna Spudich
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
 
Friday, Jun 23 2023. 5:00 PM
Uma Chakravarti
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
 
Friday, May 19 2023. 7:00 PM
Agyeya and the Archives: Humanising a writer, translator, and revolutionary
Akshaya Mukul
Champaca Bookstore
 
Understanding Post-Colonial India through Philately
Vikas Kumar
Lecture: Apr 21 - inStem Auditorium
Exhibition: Apr 21 - Apr 26 - inStem Museum
 
 
 
Data and Democracy: How statistics and democracy shape each other in India
Rukmini S
Lecture Hall-1, NCBS
 
Like a Furious Storm
Shabnam Virmani and Prashant Parvataneni
Jun 17: Lecture Hall-1, NCBS, Part 1 and Part 2
Jun 18: St Joseph's College Auditorium
 
Feminism, the breath in the body, the fire in the soul
Urvashi Butalia 
Faculty Hall, Main Building, IISc
In collaboration with IISC Archives and Centre for Public History
 
Body as / of an Archive: Matter, Memory and Absence 
Sundar Sarukkai 
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
 
 
Friday, Dec 17 2021. 5:30 PM
Understanding Inequality
Reetika Khera
Archives at NCBS, in collaboration with St Joseph's College, Azim Premji University and IIIT Bangalore
 
Thursday, Nov 18 2021. 4:00 PM
People of the Brahmaputra: On Crisis, Care and Complex Relationships
Sanjoy Hazarika
 
Friday, Oct 22 2021. 4:00 PM
In Digital Exile: Narrating urban histories: https://metromod.net/
Rachel Lee, Mareike Hetschold and Laura Karp Lugo
 
Friday, Sep 17 2021. 4:00 PM
Wiping polio off spaceship earth: The hope and dream of disease eradication
Thomas Abraham
 
Friday, Aug 13 2021. 6:30 PM
Can a State Love its People? Reflections on governance
Harsh Mander
 
Thursday, Jul 15 2021. 6:30 PM
Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
 
Thursday, Jun 17 2021. 6:30 PM
The extent of virtue: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
Larissa MacFarquhar, in conversation with Samanth Subramanian
 
Thursday, May 13 2021. 6:30 PM
People make their own map: Citizenship and belonging in South Asia
Suchitra Vijayan, in conversation with M Rajshekhar
 
Friday, Apr 16 2021, 4:00 PM
Archiving Grief
John Mathew, Krea University
 
 
Friday, Mar 19 2021, 4:00 PM
Ornamented Elephants, the Lowly Pida, and the Turbaned Man: Ruminations from the margins of design
Sarita Sundar in conversation with Suresh Venkat
 
Friday, Feb 19 2021, 4:00 PM
This thing called the Internet: Infrastructure, governance and rights
Ashwin J Mathew, King’s College London
Apar Gupta, Internet Freedom Foundation
 
Tuesday, Jan 19 2021, 4:00 PM
4:00 PM – Public lecture by Janaki Nair: The demands for a past and the (im)possibility of the archive
Discussant: Indira Chowdhury 
Mariam Ram (TNQ Technologies), S Ramakrishnan (Director, TIFR), Satyajit Mayor (Centre Director, NCBS)
 
 
Friday, Nov 13 2020, 4:00 pm
Who's Afraid of an Emergency? 
Rochelle Pinto and Maya Dodd
Friday, Oct 16 2020, 4:00 pm
Remembering Queer Lives: Silence, memory and building a collective history 
Arvind Narrain, in conversation with T Jayashree and Rahul Rao
 
Friday, Sep 18 2020, 4:00 pm
TM Krishna
 
Friday, Aug 14 2020, 4:00 pm
Aparna Vaidik, Ashoka University
Danish Husain, The Hoshruba Repertory
 
Friday, Jul 17 2020, 4:00 pm
Alok Sarin, Sitaram Bhartia Hospital
Sanjeev Jain, NIMHANS
Moderator: Zehra Mehdi, Columbia University
Friday, Jun 19 2020, 4:00 pm
Jasmeen Patheja and the Blank Noise Team
Registration for online lecture: https://tinyurl.com/APLS-20200619
Monday, June 8 - Sunday, June 14 2020
Speaker details and registration: https://bit.ly/IAW2020-Milli and http://milli.link/
Friday, May 15 2020, 4:00 pm
Pankaj Sekhsaria, IIT Bombay. In conversation with Cyrus Mody, Maastricht University.
Registration for online lecture: https://tinyurl.com/APLS-20200515
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 Printers
Lecture 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.
Friday, Feb 14 2020, 4:00 pm
Herbs, Maps & Medicine: An interpretive exhibition of commerce and spice
Exhibition Curator: Anna Spudich. Design: Abhishek Ray and Matrika Design Collaborative. Writer: Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Panel 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 Present
Panellists: Klaus Staubermann, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Swarup Bhattacharyya, Sarita Sundar. 
Panel Chair: Roland Wittje
Lecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Friday, Jan 10 2020, 4:00 pm
The Transformative Constitution
Gautam Bhatia
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS
Friday, Dec 13 2019, 4:00 pm
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane
Samanth Subramanian
Lecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Thursday, Nov 21 2019, 4:00 pm
Body politic(s): A recent history of technology, databases and the human person 
Usha Ramanathan
Lecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Wednesday, Oct 16 2019, 5:30 pm
In these Times: Three Conversations against Hatred 
V Geetha, Tara Books
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Archives Public Lecture Series: September Double Bill
Thursday, Sep 12 2019, 4 pm
When Farmers Die: Inequality and the Agrarian Crisis
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Friday, Aug 23 2019, 4 pm
Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound from the 19th to the 20th century
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Friday, Jul 12 2019, 4 pm
The Edge of Nature: History, Ecology and the Future
Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS.
Friday, Jun 07 2019, 4 pm
Renaissance & Revolution: Cartography in the Early Modern World
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Friday, May 17 2019, 5 pm
Women’s Lives, Women’s Words: Some Thoughts on Feminism as Experience and Writing Women into History
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Archives Public Lecture Series: April Double Bill
Wednesday, Apr 17 2019, 4 pm
The Himalaya: People, place and ecology
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Letters Swallow Themselves in Seconds: A lecture-performance
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Friday, Feb 15 2019, 4 pm
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
Monday, Feb 4, 4 pm
Archives at NCBS: Public Opening events 
Opening talk by Sanjeev Jain
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus) and Archives at NCBS.
 
Archives at NCBS: Opening Exhibition
Monday, Feb 4 - 8, All Day
Archives at NCBS: Opening Exhibition tours
Curators: Srajana Kaikini, Naveen Mahantesh, Meera Baindur
Public 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 Conservation
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
In pursuit of proof, A history of identification documents in India
Tarangini Sriraman, Azim Premji University
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
Historical accident or path dependence? Science, technology, industry, and the state in 20th century Bangalore
Balaji Parthasarathy, IIIT Bangalore.
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018. 4:00pm

Indira Chowdhury, Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS.
P. Balaram, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Hall -1 (Haapus), NCBS.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018. 2:00pm.

Seema Mundoli, School of Development, Azim Premji University
Lecture Hall -1 (Haapus), NCBS.
 
Friday, Apr 28 2023, 4:00 PM
For the Archives User
Anuja Ghosalkar
Simon's Centre
Wednesday, May 17 2023, 4:00 PM
Mathematics and the Archival Record
S. Prashant Kumar
Simon's Centre
 
Exhibition Launch:
 
Sunday, March 26 2023. 4:00 PM
Ever Met an 'Ugly' Flower?
Hortus Garden, Archives at NCBS
Friday, March 18 2022. 4:00 PM
Bodies at Sea
Archives at NCBS
 
Wednesday, March 15 2023. 5:00 PM
Launch of TSG Sastry Papers
Lecture Hall - 1, NCBS