Where: University of Toronto Mississauga Campus
When: June 24-August 2, 2024
Ages: This program is for adult learners, max 10-12 participants per session
Fees*: $2,000 CAD + tax
*Fees only include the academic program.
Please contact utmla@utoronto.ca for more information.
Join us for our intensive Summer Sanskrit led by world-renowned scholar, Prof. Christopher Minkowski, formerly Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, UK. For 6 weeks, participants will take part in daily reading of various types of Sanskrit texts. In addition to lectures and study group work, the cohort is invited to enjoy engaging social events. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion from UTMLA.
For further information, please contact us at utmla@utoronto.ca.
Meet Your Instructor
Christopher Minkowski was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford until 2021. He is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale. He has studied aspects of early modern Indian intellectual history, Indian history of science, and the Brahminical tradition’s reception of the Vedas and of the Sanskrit epics. He specializes in Sanskrit knowledge systems in the early modern period, the history of Indian astronomy, Vedic language, literature and religion. His current research is on commentaries on the Mahabharata, funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust.
