Winter School 2025 invites high school students to explore how people imagine, interpret, and intervene in their worlds through historical, social, literary, and media perspectives. Over three evenings, participants will examine imagination as an act of reading, writing, and thinking, an act shaped by our pasts and continuously reshaped as we look toward the future.

Through short lectures, conversations, and time for questions, students will gain insight into how scholars and practitioners understand the world using tools from different disciplines.

What to expect?

Each session will feature two faculty members, who will speak for 30 minutes each, followed by a 15-minute Q&A and discussion. Students will be introduced to ways of thinking that are central to studying the Humanities and Social Sciences at the university level.

The Winter School aims to:

• Encourage students to reflect on how social and historical worlds are formed.
• Explore how narratives, memories, and lived realities shape communities.
• Provide a glimpse into disciplinary approaches used in university classrooms.
• Offer space for curiosity, discussion, and dialogue.
   

Faculty line-up and schedule

Day 1: History | 15 Dec 2025 | 4 – 6 PM

Participants will explore how the ways we tell stories about the past shape how we understand the world today. History is not just about kings and queens — it includes everyday people, ideas, and systems that helped earlier societies function. Studying history helps us see the past in all its complexity and from multiple perspectives.

Students will also examine how rulers in premodern India used social and cultural traditions to maintain their power. Through examples like royal birthdays and celebrations, we will see what these practices reveal about society, culture, and politics. This session will also highlight why history matters in daily life and how understanding the past can help us make sense of the present and imagine a better future.

Faculty: Anshu Saluja and Ghulam Ahmad Raza

Day 2: English, Media & Communications | 16 Dec 2025 | 4 – 6 PM

Let us step into Storyverse, an immersive experience to unravel the excitement and adventure of English Literature and Media.  Become ​“explorers”, embark on a treasure hunt through your minds to create a splash using imagination and words. Delve into situations and visuals to unlock the poet in you, come up with a catchy headline, or craft a 100-word story.
Storyverse’ will spark your curiosity, and get you thinking how literature and media shape the way we all think, feel and participate in society.
Let us create an alternate uni’verse’, where language becomes power, storytelling becomes impact and ideas become action. 

Faculty: Diviya Pant and Subhashini Dinesh

Day 3: Social Science | 17 Dec 2025, 4 – 6 PM

Location, flows and the making of regions: Why here, not there?  Why do some places grow faster than others? Much of this depends on where they are located and how easily they connect with people, goods, and ideas. Different places play different roles and are linked through many kinds of flows.

In this session, students will explore how these flows shape regional development and why resources appear in some areas and not in others,offering a clearer, bigger-picture view of what you study in Classes 11 and 12.

Faculty:  Sarga T.K.

Who should attend?

This Winter School is designed for students in Grades 11 and 12 who are curious about History, Social Science, Media, Literature, and the many ways people create meaning in the world around them.
 No prior academic background is required, only an interest in thinking, questioning, and exploring ideas.

Join us

If you enjoy exploring stories, histories, societies, and the imaginative ways people construct their worlds, this Winter School offers a warm, engaging, and thought-provoking space to begin your journey.

For queries, please write to admissions@​apu.​edu.​in