If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs" – Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton)"The Politics of History Textbooks in India" – Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)"Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe" – Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University)Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoSession II: Boundaries"Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" – Thomas Bender (New York University)"Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" – Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)Discussant: Simone Laessig, Georg-Eckert-Institut f~A 1/4 r Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Braunschweig, Germany)Session III: Futures"School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness" – Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)"Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution" – Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoQuestion and Answer Session