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Applications for RA position in CL, SLLCS

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Centre for Linguistics
School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi-110067

A Project entitled “Documenting the Language, Culture, and Festivals of the vibrant Lambada Community.” Invited application for research associate Position sponsored R&D Project. This Projects are funded by Indian Councial of Social Science Research (ICSSR), initially for Two Years. We are looking for bright and motivated candidates who had interest in Documentation Ethnographic study or any other relevant areas.

Position Name: Research Associate
Number of Positions: 1
Qualification: Post Graduate in Social sciences or Humanities discipline (55% minimum) with NET/M.Phil. /Ph.D.
Tenure: 1 year 5 Months
Pay: 20,000/-

Last date to apply: 30th October 2024
Interview date: 5th November 2024

Interested and eligible persons may appear for the WRITTEN TEST /WALKIN INTERVIEW (Online/Offline), showing the educational qualification (% of Marks obtained from 10thonwards), Experience, Publications, Achievements, Names of two referees. Please send the resume (pdf and doc) and application mentioning the “post applied for” to the email id: Please use the file name as: post name applied_firstname_last name.pdf.

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.