Fascism and Art. In lieu of an ‘icebreaking activity’ in this session, we offered the students the above three words to respond to. This brought in a welcome variety of responses, leading to a free flowing discussion: from art as impossible to flourish in a fascist regime to art as resistance to fascism, the limitations…
We opened this session with a slightly tricky icebreaker: I’d offer the students one word (say ‘food’, or ‘colour’, or ‘religion’ or ‘language’) and they would have to quickly think of and share in brief a biased assumption they have held related to the word. Every three minutes the students were assigned a new word.…
We began this session with the screening of a short clip from the movie The Reader (from the video shared below), depicting a dramatic scene wherein former SS guards have been taken to trial over their decision to not unlock the doors of a church that had caught fire, resulting in the deaths of many…
Which fictional character are you? cccWith this question we gave students one minute to come up with their responses, which they then had to share with us, along with why, in rapid-fire mode. This activity turned out to be great fun with these wonderful youngsters earnestly sharing why they are a character out of Little…
We began the session with discussing their home assignment from which they were to give their thoughts on a statement that one of the students had made in the previous class—‘States usually do not support genocide’. Most students agreed that states do not actively support a genocide. However, many of them pointed out that there…
