‘2,000 rupee notes embedded with chips to enable tracking’ proclaimed one news channel. The other channel told its viewers that Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had scrapped reservation in private colleges. Joyeeta began the workshop on Media Literacy by showing these news clips both from so-called reputed news channels. The first one, shown…
Headstart School recently launched History for Peace — a project under the PeaceWorks (an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts,) umbrella—in Pakistan. Teachers, historians, students, and authors gathered at the event to discuss the prevailing issue of teaching a distorted version of history to students within the subcontinent, especially in Pakistan. Four panelists,…
‘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…
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…
