Gap Year College
invites you to a workshop
Notions of Identity
Exploring Definitions, Ideas and Practices
Friday, 18th April
to
Monday, 21st April 2008 (4 days)
As soon as the consciousness "I am" arises, it becomes impossible to escape the question: "Who am I?" Each act, each word, each thought, is an answer to this question. However, our responses are largely implicit and automatic. This workshop will seek to de-automate the processes by which identity is created.
We need to understand the processes behind the construction of identities because identities are what we work with all through our lives. Unconscious or unexamined identities make us do the things we do, think the way we think, feel the way we feel, and enter into conflicts in ways that are reflected in our world.
What is the need for identity? What are the conventional identities we work with? How can we usefully problematise old structures of identity? Are we addicted to the very idea of identity? What are the uses of the word 'I'? What is an 'identity crisis'? How do identity politics and conflict connect? What is the relationship between 'self' and identity?
This workshop is for: All sorts of people at different stages of their lives – students, professionals, artists, leaders, followers, mid-lifers, or the merely confused – questioning the very foundations of their ideas and practices – in other words, explorers.
Facilitator: Vipul Rikhi
Venue: SIDH campus, Kempty, (15 kms ahead of Mussoorie)
Vipul Rikhi has been a teacher of languages and literature, an editor, scriptwriter and author. He is currently engaged in writing a novel and is Writer-in-Residence at Gap Year College, SIDH, from April to June, 2008. He has been exploring notions of identity via diverse practices and traditions for quite a while now.
The workshop fee (inclusive of full boarding and lodging) for this four-day workshop is Rs 3000 per participant.
invites you to a workshop
Notions of Identity
Exploring Definitions, Ideas and Practices
Friday, 18th April
to
Monday, 21st April 2008 (4 days)
As soon as the consciousness "I am" arises, it becomes impossible to escape the question: "Who am I?" Each act, each word, each thought, is an answer to this question. However, our responses are largely implicit and automatic. This workshop will seek to de-automate the processes by which identity is created.
We need to understand the processes behind the construction of identities because identities are what we work with all through our lives. Unconscious or unexamined identities make us do the things we do, think the way we think, feel the way we feel, and enter into conflicts in ways that are reflected in our world.
What is the need for identity? What are the conventional identities we work with? How can we usefully problematise old structures of identity? Are we addicted to the very idea of identity? What are the uses of the word 'I'? What is an 'identity crisis'? How do identity politics and conflict connect? What is the relationship between 'self' and identity?
This workshop is for: All sorts of people at different stages of their lives – students, professionals, artists, leaders, followers, mid-lifers, or the merely confused – questioning the very foundations of their ideas and practices – in other words, explorers.
Facilitator: Vipul Rikhi
Venue: SIDH campus, Kempty, (15 kms ahead of Mussoorie)
Vipul Rikhi has been a teacher of languages and literature, an editor, scriptwriter and author. He is currently engaged in writing a novel and is Writer-in-Residence at Gap Year College, SIDH, from April to June, 2008. He has been exploring notions of identity via diverse practices and traditions for quite a while now.
The workshop fee (inclusive of full boarding and lodging) for this four-day workshop is Rs 3000 per participant.
For registration please contact Chaiti / Karuna with your name, email, phone, address at gapyearcollege@gmail.com and 01376-213060 ; 0135-6455203 ; 09837026144.
There are limited seats for the workshop, so please register as early as possible. A few need-based scholarships / partial fee waivers may be available.
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