Special Events
These are large-scale events, like conferences, lectures, and spectacles like the pop-up Museum of Memories that we organize, sometimes collaboratively. Join us for our events and tell your friends about them as well. Most of our events are open to the public with RSVP.
Subcultures to SabCulture: A Public Adda on Newness in Contemporary India
Words like ‘trending’, ‘cutting edge’, and ‘en vogue’ index the ways in which newness captivates the popular imagination. New things, be they mobile apps, art forms, ideas, or ways of doing old things, excite us in part because they agitate what exists, what is mundane, what is normal. Subcultures, from music to food to politics to fashion, act similarly, disrupting our senses, challenging what we think we know and how the world is ordered. 11 November 2016
Continue to EventVisions of Development: Indian documentary filmmaking 1948 - 1975
The Godrej India Culture Lab was proud to present documentary filmmaker and scholar *Peter Sutoris* for a very special lecture. The Gates scholar shared his incredible research with us on the history of Indian documentary filmmaking which has culminated in the book *Visions of Development.*21 September 2016
Continue to EventFeminism and Fashion – Navigating a Knotty Terrain
*Lakme Fashion Week*, *The Ladies Finger* and *Godrej India Culture Lab* were proud to collaborate on a special event ‘Feminism and Fashion – Navigating a Knotty Terrain'.19 August 2016
Continue to EventMarathi Cinema Now
1018mb and Godrej India Culture Lab were proud to present Marathi Cinema Now – voices from the Marathi New Wave. The festival celebrated the best of recent Marathi cinema on the Independence Day weekend from 12th - 14th August. 12 August 2016
Continue to EventIndia LSD [Love. Sex. Desire] - Where technology meets the erotic
The Godrej India Culture Lab hosted a steamy panel discussion right in the midst of the monsoons! Mobile phones and the internet are changing the ways in which we are imagining sexual possibility. We explored how everyday uses of communication technology from friendship requests to sexy selfies are shaping our search for human connection and fundamentally altering the normative mores of love, sex and desire in India today. 15 July 2016
Continue to EventMonsoon Merasi Magic
The Godrej India Culture Lab and Lok Kala Sagar Sanstha came together once again to present a very special performance by the visiting Merasi folk musicians from Rajasthan. The last time they were here, they dazzled us with their story and mesmerized us with their talent and this time was no different. 28 June 2016
Continue to EventCommunitainment - Mapping the new screen ecology of social media entertainment
Welcome to Communitainment. The term has been coined by Prof. Stuart Cunningham of Queensland University of Technology and Prof. David Craig of University of Southern California.27 May 2016
Continue to EventMIT and the Technological Indian - a talk by Professor Ross Bassett
In the late 1800s, Indians seemed to be a people left behind by the Industrial Revolution, dismissed as “not a mechanical race”. Today Indians are among the world’s leaders in engineering and technology. How did this change come about?10 March 2016
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