History for Peace: Experiments in Counter-Memory in India

Flyer with event details and Meena wearing scarf and smiling
October 24, 2025

History for Peace: Experiments in Counter-Memory in India
10.24.2025 | 5 -6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Meena Megha Malhotra, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India

Meena Megha Malhotra, Director of History for Peace, shares about the initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, a network of educators and members of civil society. The History for Peace project serves as a platform for discussion, debate and the exchange of ideas pertaining to teaching and learning of history for peace and understanding. 

The objectives of the project are:
  • Exploring multi and interdisciplinary and creative approaches, with emphasis on the arts
  • Developing and collating resources
  • Addressing bias and prejudice
  • Promoting initiatives and the exchange of ideas across South Asia
  • Teacher development
For the past twenty-seven years, The Seagull Foundation for the Arts has been actively supporting, nurturing and disseminating creative and critical activity in the field of the arts in India, especially fine arts, theatre and cinema, out of a deep conviction and commitment to the belief that the arts are everybody’s responsibility and a social commitment. 

Event hosted by CRG’s Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative and the Institute for South Asia Studies.

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