Day 1: 15 August 2017 The first day of the conference began mid-morning in Tollygunge Club. Teachers from various schools across India were in attendance , participating keenly in the various sessions of the day. Naveen Kishore, the Managing Trustee of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, addressed the gathering with a few opening remarks. He…
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…
Every year, PeaceWorks hosts international conferences on teaching history, as a part of the History for peace project. Each conference is well attended, with diverse voices and speakers from the field of academia, art, education and civil society. With all this input, we often wonder how it is being translated in the classroom. In other…
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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