Queer Up! Course for LGBTQIA Youth and Allies 2019
Queer Up! was a course for young Queer people and their allies interested in broadening and deepening their understanding of Queer movements, politics and issues that they have been raising. It was aimed at equipping them to engage and deal with the complex reality after the two crucial SC judgements. It was held as a eight weekends course starting from July 18, 2019 and featuring prominent speakers such as Chayanika Shah, Rachana Mudraboyina, Ponni Arasu and Grace Banu. The sessions covered a variety of subjects such as the ‘History of the Feminist and Queer Movements in India’, ‘Intersectionality within the Queer Community’ and ‘Self-Care in the Queer Communities’, till 1st of September 2019. After the course concluded, due to continuing interest, it evolved into a monthly session that examined and discussed a broad range of issues from Science to caste to civil rights movements under a queer feminist lens.
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Course for Development Activists 2010-2011
This course for Development Activists was launched in 2010 in response to the demand from the local non-governmental organizations. Designed for field level activists this course is structured around some of the key issues in the development discourse today – the politics of development, women’s rights, law, dalit movement, minority question and education. The activists, young first generation educated men and women from backward caste and dalit families, enthusiastically participated in the discussions. Over thirteen months, we conducted the course for two batches of activists, 18 in one batch and 13 in another. Most of the Anveshi’s EC members and all the Anveshi Fellows took classes during these two batches in the areas that they have worked on.
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Women’s Studies Refresher Course with MANUU 2009, 2010, 2011
This was conducted for three years from 2009 to 2011, every year in January. In the first year Anveshi framed the entire course around the constitutive contexts of gender or woman’s question in India and invited speakers for the entire course for 21 days. In the second and third year, the course was carried forward by the Women’s Studies department with a shorter 10 day course module by Anveshi.
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A short course in Women’s Studies at Satavahana University, October 2010
This course was designed on the invitation of Dr.Sujatha Surepally who wanted Anveshi to introduce gender in a muffasil context keeping serious limitations of resources, intellectual and material of the university in Karimnagar. Nearly 150 students attended the four day course, designed around a few lectures and discussion time each day. Themes were around Telangana history, globalization, literature and violence against women.
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Ford Foundation course in English Proficiency 2002
Anveshi offered this residential course to fifteen fellows selected by the Ford Foundation for their International Fellowship Programme, in June 2002. The participants were young research scholars from Dalit and minority backgrounds from different parts of the country, on their way to higher studies in universities in the US and UK. While the course was designed to build confidence in the language use and communication skills of the participants, the thematic focus of the course was issues of difference and marginalisation. The course involved interactive classroom teaching, group discussion and project work.