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Conference Archive

SL. No	Schools/Centers	Title	Confrence End Date	Conference Venue
11	Centre for English Studies, SLL&CS	Yeats and India	22/02/2019	JNU
12	School of Life Sciences, JNU	Hands-on Workshop for Handling and Care of Laboratory Animals	07/02/2019	JNU
13	School of Life Sciences, JNU	International Symposium on Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer prevention & Therapeutics	09/02/2019	JNU
14	School of Life Sciences	Sensing and signalling in plant stress response	17/04/2019	New Delhi
15	Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, SSS	Contemporary Capitalism and the World of Work	05/12/2018	Committee Room, SSS- I, JNU
16	Sixth Northern Regional Social Science Congress	Intellectual History and Changing Realities: Indian in 21st Century	20/01/2019	Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur
17	Special Centre for Disaster Research	Media and Disaster Management	07/12/2018	Constitution Club of India, New Delhi
18	Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies	Mapping Post-Soviet Eurasia: Political Economy, Strategic Environment and Cultural Landscape	31/10/2018	Auditorium-2 & Lecture Hall-1, Convention Centre, JNU
19	Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS	Economic Development and Social Change in Yunnan	26/09/2018	Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU
20	Special Centre for Disaster Research	Special Centre for Disaster Research	17/11/2018	Puducherry

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.