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    Programme Details

    AUG 14, 2023 - FEB 21 2024

    programme fee: ₹1,50,000 + GST

    Who Should Take This Programme?

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    India’s Leading Scholars

    and Intellectuals

    Senior Professional Cohort

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    across Disciplines

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    Dialogue & Debate

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    A Transformative Learning Experience

    "Excellent platform to satiate the appetite for knowledge of a lifelong learner"

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    best learning investments of my time in recent years"

    "The platform attracts diverse learners for enriched peer learning in a safe setting"

    “A great cohort, exciting professors, a bit of theory, a bit of practical, everything blended together as a unique experience……and I think at this stage of my life doing something like this energises!”


    UMA BALAKRISHNAN,

    CHIEF DESIGNER

    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.