Past Events - 2005

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December 2005

Talk: ‘I am Gulf’: The Production of Cosmopolitanism in Calicut, Kerala
Filippo Osella, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex
Open to public

Talk: Pedagogy for Social Action
Jeroo Mulla, Head, Social Communications Media Dept., Sophia Polytechnic
Open to public

Workshop on Gender Issues
Youth Fellowship Programme
Resource Person: Shilpa Phadke, PUKAR Associate
Participants: Members of youth groups working on Gender-related issues

Workshop on Research Methodology
Youth Fellowship Programme
Resource Person: Pushpa Bhave, Educationist and Activist
Participants: Senior Fellows of 2005-2006

Workshop on Media and Violence
Youth Fellowship Programme
Resource Persons: Awdhoot Parelkar, Bureau Chief, Doordarshan
Nishikant Kamat, Filmmaker
Participants: Members of Youth Groups working on media-related issues

Discussion: The institutionalizing of Dress Codes by Universities across the country initiated by an audio documentary Then They Came For My Jeans…
Gender & Space Project

Facilitators: Sameera Khan and Shilpa Phadke, PUKAR Associates
Open to public

 

November 2005

Talk: Mill Lands and Magroves: The Environmental Concerns of the City
Debi Goenka, Bombay Environmental Action Group
Open to public

Press Conference
To announce the Public Launch of the Youth Fellowship Programme

Public Launch of the Youth Fellowship Programme
Panel Discussion: ‘Research: Can it be used for Intervention or Pedagogy?’
Panelists: Pushpa Bhave, Educationist and Activist Sulakshana Mahajan, Architect, Urban Planner and Author
Respondent: Dr. Narendra Jadhav, Economist and author
Open to public

Participation in the Celebrate Bandra’ event
Gender & Space Project
Posters made by students of J.J. School of Art as part of the Gender & Space project exhibited along the Carter Road promenade  

 
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October 2005

Talk: Mumbai’s Youth: Globalised or Tribalised
Sanjay Ranade, Head, Dept. of Communications & Journalism
Open to public

Orientation Workshop: Part II
Youth Fellowship Programme
Facilitators: George Jose, Vandana Khare and Aditya Pant
Participants: Senior Fellows, 2005-2006

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September 2005

Orientation Workshop: Part I
Youth Fellowship Programme
Facilitators: Anita Patil-Deshmukh, George Jose, Vandana Khare and Aditya Pant
Participants: Senior Fellows, 2005-2006

Exhibition: City Limits – Engendering the Body in Public Space
Gender & Space Project
Exhibited at the International Women’s Health Meeting, New Delhi

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August 2005

The Second Annual PUKAR Lecture
Lecture: Mumbai Futures
Speakers: Shirish Patel, Civil Engineer and Urban Planner, Mumbai
                Joel Towers, Director, Sustainable Design and Urban Ecology,
                Parsons The New School of Design, New York
                Michael Cohen, Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs,
                The New School, New York
Respondents: Arjun Appadurai, President, Board of Trustees, PUKAR
                       Sheela Patel, Executive Director, SPARC, Mumbai
Open to public

Seminar: Mumbai Visions
Speakers: Joel Towers, Director, Sustainable Design and Urban Ecology,
                 Parsons The New School of Design, New York
                 Vidyadhar Phatak, Former Chief, Town & Country Planning Division, MMRDA
                 Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Graduate Program
                 The New School. New York
                 Pankaj Joshi, Conservation Architect, Urban Researcher, Mumbai
                 Michael Cohen, Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs,
                 The New School, New York
                 Sheela Patel, Executive Director, SPARC
Convenors: D. M. Sukthankar, Retired IAS Office, Mumbai K. M. S. Ahluwalia, Founder, MARG, Mumbai
Special Invitee: Darryl D’Monte, Journalist and Environmentalist, Mumbai
By registration

Public Hearing: Bar Dancers Speak
Gender & Space Project
In collaboration with Majlis and Point of View
Open to public

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June 2005

Talk: The making of an immigrant home: Representation and improvisation
of inherited cultural landscapes in immigrant homes

Gender & Space Project

Nandita Godbole, Independent Researcher
Open to public

Talk: Panoptic Bodies: Black Eunuchs in the Topkapi Palace
Gender & Space Project

Jateen Lad, Architect and Design Critic
Open to public

 
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May-June 2005

PUKAR Monsoon
The Mumbai Palimpsest: City as An Archive of Images and Words
In collaboration with Majlis Cultural Centre
Resource Persons: Rahul Srivastava, Hansa Thapliyal, Sampurna Chatterjee, Vidya Kamat, Niraj Voralia
By registration
 
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May 2005

Exhibition: City Limits – Engendering the Body in Public Space
Exhibited at the conference organised by Indian Association of Women’s Studies at Goa
 
 

April 2005

Discussion: Beyond Conservation: Heritage Concerns and Urban Futures
The Neighbourhood Project

Rahul Srivastava, Pankaj Joshi
Particpants: The residents of Khotachiwadi

Talk: Cruising on the Vilayeti Bandwagon:Diasporic Representations
and Reception of Popular Indian Movies

Dr. Raminder Kaur, Lecturer in Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Open to public

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March 2005

Expanding Urban Frontiers: Village Internet Kiosks
Nimmi Ranagaswamy
Open to public

Tarunaee
Concluding programme for ‘Tarunaee’
Open to public

City Limits: Engendering the Body in Public Space: A Photographic Exhibit
Gender & Space Project
In collaboration with Point of View

Imagining Gendered Utopias: A Panel Discussion
Gender & Space Project
In collaboration with Point of View

Imagining Women: Film Series
Gender & Space Project
In collaboration with Point of View  

 
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February 2005

Workshop: Media Analysis
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Vandana Khare
Participants: Students of Podar College

Workshop: Relationship on Media and Sexuality
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Vandana Khare
Participants: Students of Podar College

Session on Urban Environment and Economy
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Persons: Parth and Deepti Bapat
Participants: Volunteers of Maharashtra Nature Park

Workshop: Song Writing
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Katta Babu
Participants: Construction workers at Patlipada, Thane

Workshop: Photo Essays and News Reports
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Niloo Damle
Participants: Volunteers of Maharashtra Nature Park  

 
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January 2005

PUKAR Winter Institute
Urban Knowledge, Language and the Research Process
 
Presentations & Discussions:  
  Mumbai's Cosmopolitan Archive
  The Literary City
  Language, Cinema and the City 
  Language, Media and the Research Process
  Masculinity & Linguistic Nationalism in Bangalore/Karnataka
  Typocity: On Signs and Urban Landscapes
  Kannada Theatre in Mumbai: A Historical Perspective
  Konkani Print and the Ways of the City
  The Female Body and Voice in Performance
  Gujarati and Sindhi in Mumbai
  The City Reported: Representations of Mumbai in Media
  The Death of Language?: Technology, Language and Globalisation Space
  Antagonisms and Abstract machines: Theoretical Questions from the Field
 

 

Workshop: Script Writing for Audio Documentary
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Rajendra Patankar
Participants:Students of St. Joseph’s College, Virar  

Workshop: Framing good questions for research 
Marathi Public Sphere
Resource Person: Sulakshana Mahajan
Participants: Volunteers of Maharashtra Nature Park

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