History for Peace

Teaching and Learning history for peace and understanding

A network of educators and members of civil society in the subcontinent

Curating ‘Cultures’: Collections, Practices and their Histories: Sudeshna Guha

This talk was held in August, 2018, as part of the 4th annual History for Peace teaching history conference, The Idea of Culture, in Calcutta. ‘Curating’ appears to be one of the trendy words at present—we hear about the curation of cuisines, the curation...

The Idea of the Indian Constitution – chapter III

St Kabir Public School and History for Peace present The Idea of the Indian Constitution - chapter III 21, 22, 23 May 2020 St. Kabir Public School, Chandigarh Below is the tentative schedule for the conference 21 May 2020 2 p.m. Welcome address/Opening address:...

The Music of Stones: 700 Years of Adoption, Assimilation, Absorption and Appropriation – Sohail Hashmi

This talk was held on 5 August, 2018, as part of the 4th annual History for Peace teaching history conference, The Idea of Culture, in Calcutta. I am grateful to PeaceWorks for having given me the opportunity to be here, but before I begin,...

A Division of Hearts, Minds, Properties and…

This talk was part of Shared Histories, a History for Peace conference for teachers held at and co-organized by St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh in May, 2019. 'There is an iconic picture of Partition that shows a man sitting in a library, his head...

Teaching History like a Historian : A workshop

Date: Wednesday, 4 December 2019 Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The early start did not deter our attendees. By ten past 9, the classroom at the Goethe Institut was brimming with close to forty teachers. With a brief welcome from Megha, Director, History...

History for Peace reaches Kurseong!

The brief, very briefly, was ‘Unbiased Histories’. The participants—German language teachers from East/North East India and Bangladesh. Very pleased to be invited by the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhawan Kolkata as part of their 5th German Language Teachers Conference, Region East and North East...

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