FRIDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2019
09:00 am Registration & Tea
09:20 am WELCOME & INTRODUCTION: Mustansir Dalvi & Rachel Lee (Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai and LMU Munich)
09:45 am KEYNOTE: Kaiwan Mehta (Editor, Domus)
Where is the City?
10:45 am REFRESHMENTS
11:00 am Swati Vijaya (Ohio State University)
Rethinking Mumbai’s Queer Heterotopia: Situating Suburban Spatialities and Subaltern Socialities
11:40 am Pranoo Deshraju (TISS, Tuljapur)
Traces of the Insomniac’s City: Studio 29 and the Beginnings of Disco in Bombay
12:20 pm Rachel Lee (LMU Munich)
The Taj and Green's as Spaces of Sociability
01:00 pm LUNCH
02:00 pm Daksh Jain (KRVIA, Mumbai)
Queerness / Public spaces in Bombay
02:40 pm M. Raisur Rahman (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem)
Social as Spatial: Anjuman-e-Islam and Muslim Sociability in Colonial Bombay
03:20 pm Margit Franz (University of Graz)
More than "Languages – Key to International Understanding": Charles Petras’ Institute of Foreign Languages as a Cosmopolitan Meeting and Art Discussion Space in Bombay
04:00 pm REFRESHMENTS
04:30 pm Mustansir Dalvi (Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai)
Poetry on Urban Social Spaces in Bombay
05:10 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Citizenship and Space
with Sameera Khan (Independent Journalist, Mumbai), Kaiwan Mehta (Domus, India), Simin Patel (Bombaywalla), Shilpa Phadke (TISS, Mumbai), Sarover Zaidi (Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Delhi)
05:50 pm VALEDICTORY: Mustansir Dalvi & Rachel Lee (Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai and LMU Munich)
06:00 pm CLOSE
07:00 pm DINNER Chetana (Participants only)
WALKING TOUR ON
SATURDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2019
09:00 am Simin Patel (Bombaywalla)
Gentlemen Prefer Hotels: The Early Hotel Trade in Bombay, 1850-1903
Meeting Point: Rhythm House, Kala Ghoda
(Places are limited to 15, so register fast!)
To register please contact: rachel.lee@lmu.de
This workshop is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD)", located at the Institute for Art History, LMU Munich.
http://www.metromod.net
https://metromod.net/2019/11/29/workshop-in-mumbai/
The METROMOD team is: Ekaterina Aygun, Burcu Dogramaci, Mareike Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Christina Lagao, Rachel Lee, and Helene Roth