The HN Bahuguna University organised a Refresher course on, A multidisciplinary approaches to address environmental issues. The participants here are from different Universities and colleges from Uttarakhand, U. P, Himachal, Karnataka and Maharashtra. I spoke on Eco Feminism, its philosophy, principles and making a comparison of this philosophy with feminism, it's understanding of environmental issues in the context of women. This was the first lecture on Gender in this fifteen days course as mentioned by the participants to me later and as always happens the participants brought out so many issues starting with environment, to gender, to Women's work, status of women and a comparison on women in our culture and others. I am very fascinated with Sherry Ortners piece, Is female to male as nature is to culture and I had circulated this to the participants beforehand and there was a discussion on this too. A very enjoyable experience no doubt. The advantage which the HNBahuguna University has unlike many other Universities is that the participants stay in the same guest house as you and hence the discussion gets carried over, dinner and breakfast and extends outside the class room too which is a big advantage.
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