Justice : Selected Topics & Controversies

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Faculty

Pratap Bhanu Mehta
 

Course Dates

29 June to 29 July 
 

Timings

7:00 pm to 9:00
(Mon & Wed)

Commitment

5 Weeks

Price

INR 20,000

Applications

27 June, 2020

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About The Course

Through this course you will develop an introductory understanding of the ideas of justice, by examining some of the most contentious issues we confront when we think about justice.

Think of a range of questions: Is Inequality of Property justified? Do descendants of those who committed injustices in the past have an obligation to rectify the wrongdoing of their ancestors? What, if anything, is merit? And do those who have it deserve to be rewarded? What is Discrimination? Why does Justice matter? Are closed borders incompatible with Justice?

Together we will examine these and other provocative questions to understand better how we think about Justice in different contexts. The readings and discussion will aim to clarify our assumptions and provide provocative examples that force us to think.

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    Faculty

    Pratap Bhanu Mehta

    PHD Princeton: BA Oxford

    Pratap Bhanu Mehta is former Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University. You’re as likely to find him having a fireside chat with his students on campus as in the morning’s newspaper. Combining academic expertise with public engagement, Mehta has served as president of the Center for Policy Research, a New Delhi based think tank for 18 years. He has previously taught at Harvard, JNU, and at the NYU law school.

    Mehta has published widely on political theory and international affairs such as The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution and Non-Alignment 2.0. Mehta was honoured with the Malcom S. Adishehshiah Award (2010) and the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (2011). He was educated at Oxford and Princeton.

    Academy Common Course Objectives

    ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH FACULTY ON THEIR UNIQUE THINKING MODELS AND APPROACHES

    GAIN INSIGHTS INTO PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE ROOTED IN CURRENT RESEARCH

    LEARN HOW TO COLLABORATE WITH DIVERSE PEERS

    EXPAND YOUR WORLDVIEW WITHIN AND ACROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

    DEVELOP WAYS TO MEASURE YOUR LEARNING AND GROWTH BEYOND GRADES

    Madhavi Menon

    Professor of English, Ashoka University

    Director, Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality

    Director of the PhD Programme in English

    Ph.D. Tufts University

    Madhavi Menon is an eminent theorist and scholar of gender, sexuality, politics, and identity. 

    She joined Ashoka University in 2013 as one of its founding faculty members. She went on to establish the university’s Centre for Gender & Sexuality Studies (CSGS), which is the first of its kind in India. Previously, she was a professor at Ithaca College and American University. 

    Most prominently known for her work on queer theory and Shakespeare, she has also edited the collection Shakesqueer and written three books on Shakespeare and sexuality. She is also most recently the author of Infinite Varieties: A History of Desire in India and Law of Desire: Rulings on Sex & Sexuality in India. 

    In addition to being Director of CSGS, she is the Director of the Ph.D. programme in English and Professor of English at Ashoka University.