Opening session: Conversation between Romila Thapar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 14 August 2017 The opening session of the third annual History for Peace conference—The Idea of India—was a conversation between Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Romila Thapar. As Spivak said, the audience ‘eavesdropped’ on a conversation between ‘two old friends’ as they deconstructed the potential meanings…
14, 15, 16, 17 August, 2017 . ICCR and Tollygunge Club, Calcutta This conference is dedicated to the memory of PeaceWorks friend and patron Kozo Yamamura (1934 – 2017). CONCEPT NOTE REGISTER NOW! 14.8.2017 In Conversation: Romila Thapar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. [6.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.] Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of…
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‘The Idea of Nationalism’- the second International Conference on Teaching History was held on 10, 11 and 12 November 2016 in Calcutta. This year’s conference looked at what is arguably the most contested idea of the 21st Century- Nationalism. We examined the construction of the concept of nationalism, the idea of what is an anti-national, the…
The International Conference on Teaching History 2016-‘The Idea of Nationalism’ sought to explore what is arguably the most contested word in recent times—nationalism and bring it into the classroom context. Participants from all over the subcontinent gathered for three days at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Calcutta to discuss and debate, listen and share. This…
