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JNU Events

Event End Date Event Title
Surface Plasmon Resonance & Galvanostat and Potentiostat
Two-dimensional Bose-Holstein Model for Hard-Core Bosons: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Understanding the War on Terror from a Sociological/Anthropological Perspective
Using ancient dynamins to probe the earliest steps of eukaryote evolution
Forms of Social Asymmetry and Cultural Bias of Gender and Science in India and the World
Science & Technology innovations in Sanskrit
Science of the Past Reason, Method and History
Finite Element Methods for p-Laplace and Nonlocal Problems
Live Cell Imaging
Tajikistan's Economic and Trade Ties with Russia and China: A Comparative Analysis
20 Years of Persons With Disabilities Act (1995): Issues and Challenges
an Economic Survey Outreach Programme
Revisiting the Debate on Inequality and Economic Development
Research Writing
Developing Anti-Microbial Therapeutics Based on Alternative Approaches
Regional Economic Cooperation: Priorities & Interests of Tajikistan
Minority Claims and Majoritarian Anxieties: The Case of the Jains
On the Distinctiveness of Exclusion and the Strategy of Inclusion: Religion, Caste and Tribe
Earth Day Celebration 2015
Mao and Gandhi in the Fight Against Corruption: Popular Film and Social Change in China and India
Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA
Discrimination and Exclusion
Narrating the Past in Kashmir Place, Genealogy, and Tradition
A Seminar cum Workshop
Food Security in Tajikistan
Community contracts: An experimental investigation of rule formation in Indian villages
Entanglement Entropy at Finite Size and Temperature
HIGH THROUGHPUT GENETIC ANALYSES TOOLS IN LIFESCIENCE RESEARCH
Recent Trends in Mathematical Biology
Are There Quantum Limits to Diffusion in Quantum Many-Body Systems?

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.