The International Conference on Teaching History took place on the 30th and 31st of July and the 1st of August 2015 in Kolkata. A platform for exchanging thoughts and ideas and learning, the conference combined panel discussions and workshops. It also showcased alternative work in the arts, in education and civil society opening up possibilities…
‘Ownership. Every thought. Every memory. Every emotion has a landowner. Things that ‘happened’. Are meant to belong. To you. Or to me. Like a privilege acquired at birth. A litany made up of ‘this is mine, yours, ours’. Often it is nations that appropriate entire histories. Lives. Other nations. People. Writing and the re-writing of…
30, 31 JULY, 1 AUGUST 2015 at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata The international conference on history teaching across the subcontinent invites historians, activists, writers, teachers and artists to be a part of the start of a long-term project, which involves debate and discussion over turning our history classrooms into spaces for inquiry and…
Art and peace are both located in the tension between emotions and intellect. Life unites what concepts and dualisms keep apart. And art, like peace, has to overcome such false dichotomies by speaking both to the heart and to the brain, to the compassion of the heart and the constructions of the brain. ~ Johan…
Project implemented by Deeptha Vivekanand of Ever-After Learning Both in India and Pakistan, cinema as a cultural production wields immense influence in the lives of the people and mainstream cinema has been deeply affected by Partition. By offering the potential for public mourning in a public space such as a theatre, cinema confronts the…
