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Conference Archive

SL. No	Schools/Centers	Title	Confrence End Date	Conference Venue
31	Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University	National Young Researchers’ Conference 2018 on Literature and the Mystical Foundations of Authority	23/02/2018	JNU, New Delhi
32	Special Centre for Disaster Research Online Registration	Capacity Building Workshop on Social Science Approach to Disaster Research	18/02/2018	HRDC, JNU
33	Jawaharlal Nehru University CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and National Institute of Biological (NIB) organizing 8th International conference of LASA, India on Recent Advances in 3R’s and Laboratory Animal Science	Recent Advances in 3R’s and Laboratory Animal Science	26/11/2017	New Delhi
34	Center of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University	Organizing the VI International Conference on Hispanism	09/03/2018	Convention Centre, JNU
35	School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, NY, USA	Cell Death Resistance in Cancer: Perspective on Cancer Stem Cells	19/02/2018	JNU, New Delhi
36	School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with University of Colorado, Denver, USA University of Pittsburgh, USA University of Oklahoma, USA	Cancer Prevention and Treatment	10/02/2018	Convention Centre, JNU
37	Centre of Arabic and African Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with the Qutbi Jubilee Scholarship Program (QJSP)	Ideas of Harmonious Coexistence: Religions and Philosophies of India	28/12/2017	JNU, New Delhi

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.