Category Archives: Anne Frank- A History for Today

A Report on Anne Frank-A History for Today at the Goethe-Institut—October/November 2022

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As part of a recently concluded event series by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata in collaboration with Jadavpur University, Lessons from Germany’s Past: Fascism as a Historical Experience, PeaceWorks was invited to hold the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibition. The exhibition, as per the project’s format, was preceded by a 2-day workshop (28–29 October 2022)…

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The Anne Frank Youth Network Programme (India): Digital Session 7

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Given that the pandemic has been raging in the country, we began the session with a brief chat, asking students about their wellbeing and their ways of coping with the circumstances. cccWe then did a brief recap from the last session where we had discussed about the linkages of art with propaganda, and on the…

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The Anne Frank Youth Network Programme (India): Digital Session 6

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Fascism and Art. In lieu of an ‘icebreaking activity’ in this session, we offered the students the above three words to respond to. This brought in a welcome variety of responses, leading to a free flowing discussion: from art as impossible to flourish in a fascist regime to art as resistance to fascism, the limitations…

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The Anne Frank Youth Network Programme (India): Digital Session 5

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We opened this session with a slightly tricky icebreaker: I’d offer the students one word (say ‘food’, or ‘colour’, or ‘religion’ or ‘language’) and they would have to quickly think of and share in brief a biased assumption they have held related to the word. Every three minutes the students were assigned a new word.…

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