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Sixth Northern Regional Social Science Congress

Sixth Northern Regional Social Science Congress

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Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur

 

ICSSR- Northern Regional Centre, New Delhi, in collaboration with Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur is organizing the Sixth Northern Regional Social Science Congress at Udaipur.

 

Important Dates:

Date of Congress: 18th, 19th & 20th January 2019

Venue: Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur

Last date for submission of abstract (word limit: 300 in PDF format):  10th December 2018

           Short list by: 15th December 2018

Last date for submission of full-length paper (word limit: 3000-5000): 30th December 2018

 

Theme of the Congress: Intellectual History and Changing Realities: Indian in 21st Century

 

It is in this context, the Northern Regional Centre, New Delhi in collaboration with Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur proposes a 2½ days conference with the above theme and the following sub themes:

 

Proposed Sub-Themes for the Congress

 

  1. Ancient Indian Concepts and Contemporary Global Views
  2. Understanding Indian Society: The Literary Lens.
  3. Indian Political and Economic Thought in Global Context
  4. Indian Philosophy from Adi Shakaracharya to Swami Vivekananda
  5. Intellectual Tradition among Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Caste
  6. Locational Analysis and Cultural Identities in India
  7. Sustaining Indian Culture: The Role of Diaspora
  8. Relevance of Social Science, Social value and Education

Participation of scholars from the Northern Region—National Capital Territory Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan is solicited. Only selected papers will be presented at the Congress. Paper presenters will be paid 3AC train fare if they are not able to mobilize funds from their parent institution. All participants would be provided local hospitality.

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.