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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‘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,…
