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Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences
The Archives Public Lecture Series (APLS)
A series framed around explorations in and around archives. Discussions by archivists, artists, historians, teachers, journalists, scientists and others.
2018 - Present | 65+ lectures
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Upcoming Event
Saturday, Oct 25, 2025. 6:30 PM
Public Health Histories discussionTBDTBD
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Collections Launch: Archives of the Archives!
100,000 new archival objects, 100+ years of history, and 10 new public projects!Lecture Hall - 1 (Haapus)Archives at NCBS gardens and gallerySeason 6, exhibition launch and walk-throughs
The Archives at NCBS turns five! Launch of a 100,000 new archival objects, exhibition, talks, walk-throughs, and more!Archives at NCBS
Launch of Leslie Coleman PapersArchives at NCBS
Launch of TSG Sastry PapersLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Launch of MS Swaminathan PapersLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
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Public Lecture Series: Archives
A series framed around explorations in and around archives, around a broader history of ideas. Discussions and screenings by archivists, artists, historians, teachers, journalists, scientists and others.
Voices From the Lab and the FieldParvathi Menon and Sandipan Baksi, in conversation with Madhura SwaminathanBangalore International Centre (BIC) Auditorium
Revisiting the Narmada: On Memory, Accountability and ResistanceNandini Oza and Shripad DharmadhikaryLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Break for APLS due to other archive events: Feb 2025 - Jul 2025
The Politics of Muslin ClothSonia AshmoreLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Thu-Fri, Dec 19-20 2024. 4:00 PM
Structural Design of Indian Musical Instruments: Historic and Scientific Perspectives
Anurag GuptaLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Season Break: Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Scripts and Voices in the ArchivePrachi DeshpandeLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
KS Krishnan: A Life in a Myriad HuesDipankar MallikLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
July 2024: Obaid Siddiqi Lectures
Film screening: Homai VyarawallaLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
A Century of Watching Indian BirdsAasheesh Pittie and Suhel QuaderLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Growing with Black Holes and with the People's Science MovementPrajval ShastriLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Making Things, Doing ScienceArvind GuptaLecture Hall - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Arun K Thiruvengadam, in conversation with Usha RamanathanChampaca Bookstore, off Queens Road
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
Shomona Khanna, in conversation with Radhika Chitkara
Alternative Law Forum, Shivaji Nagar
Peggy Mohan
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Anna Spudich
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
July 2023: Obaid Siddiqi Lectures
Uma Chakravarti
Lecture Hall (LH) - 1 (Haapus), NCBS
Agyeya and the Archives: Humanising a writer, translator, and revolutionary
Akshaya Mukul
Champaca Bookstore
Vikas KumarLecture: Apr 21 - inStem AuditoriumExhibition: Apr 21 - Apr 26 - inStem Museum
Why do we eat what we eat? The Archaeology, Anthropology, History, and Politics of FoodKurush DalalLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Paradox of the Media: Plentiful yet Unviable, Plentiful yet UnfreeSevanti NinanLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Chitranshul SinhaLecture Hall - 1, NCBS
Ramachandra GuhaDasheri Auditorium, NCBS
Neeraja SankaranLecture Hall-1, NCBS
Rukmini SLecture Hall-1, NCBS
Shabnam Virmani and Prashant ParvataneniJun 18: St Joseph's College Auditorium
May 2022: Obaid Siddiqi Lectures
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
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.
Friday, Apr 28 2023, 4:00 PM
Anuja GhosalkarSimon's Centre
Wednesday, May 17 2023, 4:00 PM
S. Prashant KumarSimon'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 SeaArchives at NCBS
Launch of TSG Sastry PapersLecture Hall - 1, NCBS