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JNU Events

Event End Date Event Title
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS: IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION (NCEPIAR-2016)
Narrating Germany Time, Space and the German Village
Champions: First Generation Girls Students in Secondary Schools
Education and Public Sphere Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India
Ambedkar and Modernity
Climate Diplomacy as a Variable in India-China Relations
The "Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions
Assessment of Marketed and Marketable Surplus of Major Foodgrains in Gujarat
Representations of Virasoro Algebra and an n-Variable Generalization
Europe as Idea Novalis and the present
Activist theatre and Theatre Activism: Feminist negotiations in Indian Theatre
Interaction with Palestinian Poets and Writers
The body-mind challenge: Indian religious thought and problems of translation
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonded Networks: Imaging Bond Breaking Pathways
Conversation with Ira Bhaskar
Transformations: Gender and Art
Beyond Equality: Class and Culture among the Urban Naga Youth from Nagaland
The Impure Worlds of Caste Today: Thinking with AoC
India's Domestic Energy Policy and Emission Reduction Challenges
India's Foreign Policy
Questions Behind Climate Policies
Making Mathematics in India
Twenty Years of CTBT: Time for India to Re-engage?
Quadratic Forms and their Values
In Your Face: Piercing the Veil of Ignorance About Niqab-Wearing Women
Korea-India Relations - Recent Dynamics
Mirrors of Modernity
Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds
The Global War on Terror: Fraud or Necessity Professor Achin Vanaik
DBT – BUILDER Programme & AIRF Joint Workshop on EPR Spectroscopy

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.