Keynote address The 1960s: Thinking Beyond Borders Malini Sur Malini Sur is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. In 1964 Karim Naseer was arrested as a spy and deported to East Pakistan. He was a farmer hailing from Assam who lived out the rest of his life…
Keynote Address What the Nation really needs to know about JNU: Dissent, Sedition and the Difference it Makes Janaki Nair Janaki Nair teaches history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Janaki Nair began her keynote by sharing her experiences of being a part of curriculum and textbook development at the NCERT. NCERT…
Keynote address From National Culture to Cultural Nationalism Sadanand Menon Sadanand Menon is adjunct faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, IIT Madras and Presidency University, Kolkata. Sadanand Menon elucidated how the initial idea of national culture morphs into the problematic of cultural nationalism. The idea of nationalism, which precedes the nation itself, constructs itself around…
Workshop at Teachers Centre, Loreto College, Calcutta. 29.11.2016. Facilitator: Meher Ali Participants: 9 A History for Peace event. ‘In our desire to be politically correct and neutral, in our desire to not step on toes, I feel that facts are being lost. How do we counter that? My tussle is that as a teacher…
PeaceWorks hosted Ineke Veldhuis-Meester, Euroclio Ambassador and former Professor, Groningen University from 6 November to 13 November as part of a study visit which included the International Conference on Teaching History from 10 – 12 November 2016. Prior to the conference she was able to visit four very diverse schools and interact with teachers and…
