The first talk as a part of the History for Peace project was titled ‘A missing General, a trusted jeep, and submerged narratives of 1971’. A title like that is enough to pique ones curiosity! Naeem Mohaiemen, who was the speaker for the evening, is a historian and visual artist working in Dhaka and New…
Panel 1: Historical Interpretation – Dr Vishwamohan Jha, Dr Mubarak Ali, Dr Ayaz Naseem, Shreya Ghosh – moderated by Dr Garga Chatterjee The discussion on history as a product of contemporary ideology across nations with a common past, chaired by Dr Garga Choudhury started promptly at 10 a.m. and despite a few technological glitches, an…
The last phase of the Exchange for Change project dealt extensively with oral history narratives. School children on either side of the border collected oral histories from people who had either witnessed the partition themselves, or had heard about partition from those who had experienced it. Rudrani Gangopadhyay, a volunteer with the 1947 Partition Archives,…
What does the word border mean? When do we think about it? When politicians talk about them? When wars are fought? Does it require an event to initiate a discussion about borders? Exchange for Change, a yearlong program conducted in collaboration with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan addressed, through intensive workshops, the idea of borders.…
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…
