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JNU Events

Event End Date Event Title
SCNS organizing 2 Days "Workshop on Nano Electronics & Bio-Electronics"
GREEK CHAIR is organizing International Seminar on "Greeks in World Literature: The people, Their Ideas and Institutions"
CPS is organising "workshop in Research Methodology"
SCMM is organising 7th Symposium onFrontier in Molecular Medicine 2017 from 23rd-24th Marc
SBT is organising BioEpoch 2017 from 23rd-24th March
CCULAS organizing a Lecture on 'Presence of Indian culture in Latin America' by Dr. Melissa A. Fitch, Univ. of Arizona
CSSS organizing a Talk on 'The Unity of Cultures and the Plurality of Civilization' by Rabindra Ray
CSRD organizing workshop on Demography of Gender Bias
CSSS organizing colloquium on Neology as a Site of Sexuality: Constituting the Cisible
CPS Workshop: Social Sciences for the Marginalized; Selected candidates registration
SPS is organizing a set of Lectures by Krishnendu Sengupta
SPS is organizing Math Seminar Random Matrix Theory of Decoherence
SPS is organizing Math Seminar TASEP as an Example of Hidden Correlations Displayed in Time Series
SPS is organizing Math Seminar In the Neighbourhood of the Sato-Tate Conjecture
SPS is organizing Math Seminar On the Lorenz Flow and the Modular Flow
Call for Paper : GSP, CWAS, SIS
SES is organizing one day Symposium on Non coding RNA and Modern Biology
CIL is organising National Seminar on Ancient Tamil Culture
SPS is organising conference on Perspectives in Graphene and Graphene like 2D materials
CSLG is organizing a Seminar Series on Geoncides: Law, Politics and History
CSLG Roundtable and Book Launch
NEISP is organising National Seminar on "Society and Social Change in North East Indian"
SAA is organising a talk by Prof. Ebba Koch
SCSS is organising a lecture by Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli
Circular for JNU Students from the Vice-Chancellor Office
SAA is presenting Santhal Family to Mill Re-call
CSRD is organising a lecture by Tim Dyson
SSS is organising The XXV Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture by Professor Heinz D. Kurz
ACH is organising a lecture by Prof. Moishe Postone
Archives on Contemporary History Jawaharlal Nehru University, 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.