GIAN approved courses
2025
Course Name: EMERGENCE AND UNDERSTANDING OF A COMPLEX WORLD
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Dr. Fausto Fraisopi, Amidex Excellence Chair, “Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research ”, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
Host Faculty: Prof. Babu Thaliath, CGS, SLL&CS, JNU
Duration : 10th – 21st January 2025
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Course Name : EURASIAN GEOPOLITICS AND THE 'NEW' GREAT GAME IN CENTRAL ASIA
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Pierre CHABAL, Director, LexFEIM Law and Political Science Research Centre, Le Havre University, France
Host Faculty : Prof. Archana Upadhyay, CRCAS, SIS, JNU
Duration : 13th January - 24th January 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Course Name : A New Vision For Saudi Arabia
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Joseph A. Kechichian, Senior Fellow, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), Riyadh
Host Faculty : Prof. Sameena Hameed, CWAS, SIS, JNU
Duration : 20th January - 24th January 2025
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Course Name : Hyperbolic geometry, Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces
Foreign Faculty : Athanase Papadopoulos, Senior Researcher (Directeur de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Host Faculty : Prof. Riddhi Shah, SPS, JNU
Duration : 27th January - 1st February 2025
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Course Name : German-Indian Theatrical Relations: From the Age of Enlightenment to the 21st century
Foreign Faculty : Professor Peter W. Marx, University of Cologne
Host Faculty : Dr. Ameet Parameswaran, SAA, JNU
Duration : 22nd February - 26th February 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Course Name: From Preference to Policy: Discrete Choice Experiments for Climate Change Solutions
Foreign Faculty : Adan L. Martinez-Cruz, Associate Professor of Bioeconomy, Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umea, Sweden
Host Faculty: Sangeeta Bansal, Professor of Economics, Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Duration : 3rd – 7th February 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Course Name : ROLE OF BRICS IN GLOBAL TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND RUSSIA
Foreign Faculty : Prof Alexander Nikulin, Russian Presidential Academy for National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow
Host Faculty : Dr Sudhir Kumar Suthar, CPS, JNU and Prof Sanjay Pandey, CRCAS, SIS, JNU
Duration : 10 - 16 February 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Course Name : Quadruple Helix and Strengthening Knowledge Interactions for Frugal Innovation
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Peter Knorringa, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hague, Netherlands
Host Faculty : Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri, CSSP, SSS, JNU
Duration : 17 - 21 February 2025
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Course Name : Translation and Intercultural Communication
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Alessandra Consolaro, University of Turin
Host Faculty : Dr. Ganga Sahay Meena, CIL, SLL&CS, JNU
Duration : 17 - 28 February 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Course Name: Feminism, Theatre and Activism
Foreign Faculty : Elaine Aston, Professor Emerita at Lancaster University, UK
Course Co-ordinator: Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil and Dr. Mallarika Sinha Roy, CWS, SSS, JNU
Duration : 17th-21st February, 2025
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Course Name : Physics of Living Systems
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Daniel Riveline, Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Host Faculty : Dr. Manoj Munde, SPS, JNU
Duration : 03 - 07 March 2025
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Course Name : THE STANDARD MODEL : from symmetry principles to experimental tests
Foreign Faculty : Yosef (Yossi) Nir, Professor of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Host Faculty : Dr. Poonam Mehta, SPS, JNU
Duration : 24 - 28 February 2025
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Note : Interested candidates can apply using the application form. Shortlisted candidates will be informed via email by 15 January 2025 after which they can proceed with the registration.
2022
Course Name : RADIATION BIOLOGY AND ITS CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Vikram Bhadrasain, Chief, Clinical Radiation Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethseda, USA
Host Faculty : Prof. Vibha Tandon , Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU
Duration : 26-03-2022 to 31-03-2022
Link for Registration: http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN/index
Course Name : RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (RRI): CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND PRACTICES
Foreign Faculty : Robert Braun, Senior Researcher Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria, and Associate Professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Host Faculty : Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri and Dr. Anup Kumar Das, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences
Duration : 07-03-2022 to 18-03-2022
2019
Course Name : Photographic Theories and Practices
Foreign Faculty : Ms. Taina Meller, George Eastman Museum, New York, USA and Prof. Christopher Pinney, Univ. College London, UK
Host Faculty : Dr. Suryanandini Narain, School of Arts and Aesthetics
Duration : 28-10-2019 to 08-11-2019
2018
Course Name : Synthetic Analog Circuit Design in Living Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Thomas E. Kurtz Professor at Dartmouth College, USA
Host Faculty : Prof. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Duration : 30-07-2018 to 04-08-2018
Course Name : Cloud-based bioinformatics with Apache Spark
Foreign Faculty :Dr Johan Nyström-Persson, Douglas Connect GmbH, Switzerland, and Level Five, Japan
Host Faculty : Professor Shandar Ahmad, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Duration : 03-10-2018 to 07-10-2018
Course Name : Cloud Data Center Service Provisioning: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Course Area : Mathematical & Computer Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Jemal Abawajy, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, , Australia
Host Faculty : Deo Prakash Vidyarthi, School of Computer and Systems Sciences
Duration : 29-01-2018 to 09-02-2018
Course Name : Twentieth Century Narrative: Five African American Practitioners
Course Area : Humanities & Liberal Arts
Foreign Faculty :Amritjit Singh, , United States of America
Host Faculty : GJV Prasad, Centre for English Studies, SLL&CS
Duration : 12-02-2018 to 18-02-2018
Course Name : Urban Issues in a Globalized World
Course Area : Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage
Foreign Faculty :Ajay Agarwal, , Canada
Host Faculty : Shrawan Kumar Acharya, CSRD, SSS
Duration : 15-02-2018 to 21-02-2018
Course Name : Advanced Electron Microscopy for Materials Science
Course Area : Physical Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Benjamin Butz, , Germany
Host Faculty : Dr. Balaji Birajdar, Special Centre for Nano Science
Duration : 13-03-2018 to 22-03-2018
Course Name : Two Karls are Better Than One!!! Capitalism, Crisis, Critique: On Ecology, Democracy and Social Reproduction
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty : Nancy Fraser, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof Amit Prakash and Prof Niraja Gopal Jayal, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Duration : 19-03-2018 to 23-03-2018
Course Name : Multifunctional Complex Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures by Design
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Host Faculty : Prof. Satyabrata Patnaik, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 20-03-2018 to 30-03-2018
Course Name : Food for a Healthy Planet
Foreign Faculty : Professor Mohan B Singh, University of Melbourne, Australia
Host Faculty : Prof. Ashwani Pareek, School of Life Sciences and Dr. Rajbeer Singh, Center for Studies in Science Policy, SSS
Duration : 02-04-2018 to 07-04-2018
Course Name : A Hybrid Approach to Develop Time-Space Resolved Estimates of Air Quality
Foreign Faculty :Naresh Kumar, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami, Miami , USA
Host Faculty : Arun Srivastava, School of Environmental Sciences
Duration : 18-06-2018 to 22-06-2018
2017
Course Name : Dendrecology: Application of Tree-Ring Analysis to Ecological Science
Course Area : Earth & Environment Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Peter Z. Fule, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Satish Chandra Garkoti, School of Environmental Sciences
Duration : 11-12-2017 to 22-12-2017
Course Name : Dark matter: the astro-particle perspective (Poster)
Course Area : Physical Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Subir Sarkar, , United Kingdom
Host Faculty : Dr. Poonam Mehta, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 18-12-2017 to 23-12-2017
Course Name : Can magnetic Microsystems/nanomagnetics enable powering of internet of things?
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Saibal Roy, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland, Ireland
Host Faculty : Dr Poonam Agarwal, School of Computer & Systems Sciences
Dates : 07-12-2017 to 12-12-2017
Course Name : Literature, Language and Territory: Aspects of Contemporary Literature in French
Course Area : Humanities & Liberal Arts
Foreign Faculty :Fabienne Dumontet, , France
Host Faculty : Prof. Dhir Sarangi, Centre for French & Francophone Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Duration : 06-12-2017 to 16-12-2017
Course Name : In the Event of Women: Teaching East to East, South to South
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Tani Barlow, Professor at Department of History Rice University, Houston, TX USA 77001,United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Duration : 27-11-2017 to 08-12-2017
Course Name : Applications of Environmental Cost Benefit Analysis using Welfare Economics
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Madhu Khanna, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Sangeeta Bansal, Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies
Duration : 30-10-2017 to 08-11-2017
Course Name : Animal Welfare Science and Assessment
Course Area : Other Categories / Interdisciplinary Categories
Foreign Faculty :Cathy Mary Dwyer, , United Kingdom
Host Faculty : Prasenjit Sen, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 06-11-2017 to 17-11-2017
Course Name : Farm Animal Nutrition and Welfare
Course Area : Other Categories / Interdisciplinary Categories
Foreign Faculty :Clive Phillips, , Australia
Host Faculty : Prasenjit Sen, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 11-09-2017 to 16-09-2017 (Time-Table)
Course Name : Biology of Global Infectious Diseases and its intersection with Public Health
Course Area : Life Sciences & Healthcare
Foreign Faculty :Marilyn Parsons, Center for Infectious Disease Research, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Duration : 21-02-2017 to 03-03-2017
Diversity and Identity among India's Jews
Foreign Faculty : Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher at the RIFIE (Research Institute for Innovation in Education) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, , Israel
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : January 23, 2017— January 31, 2017
2016
Spatial Data Analytics
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Shashi Shekhar, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Ayesha Choudhary, School of Computer & Systems Sciences
Dates : December 26, 2016— December 30, 2016
Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Supriyo Datta, Purdue University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Subhasis Ghosh, School of Physical Sciences
Dates : December 12, 2016— December 16, 2016
154027C04 : Thermochemical Processing of Biomass
Foreign Faculty : Professor Mark Mba Wright, Iowa State University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Professor Dinesh Mohan, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : December 5, 2016— December 16, 2016
Synthetic Analog Circuit Design in Living Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Dartmouth College, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : December 1, 2016— December 15, 2016
Diversity and Identity among India's Jews
Foreign Faculty : Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher at the RIFIE (Research Institute for Innovation in Education) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, , Israel
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : November 21, 2016— November 28, 2016
Latest Methods in Structural Biology
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Christian Betzel, Germany
Host Faculty : Prof. Samudrala Gourinath, School of Life Sciences
Dates : November 14, 2016— November 25, 2016
Jerusalem and the Abrahamic Faiths throughout the Ages
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Moshe Aa'oz, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : November 9, 2016— November 17, 2016
154027F01 : Modernism, Feminism, and the Avant Garde
Foreign Faculty : Prof Michael Levenson, University of Virginia, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Brinda Bose, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Dates : October 24, 2016— November 4, 2016
In the Event of Women: Teaching East to East, South to South
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Tani Barlow, Professor at Department of History Rice University, Houston, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Dates : September 15, 2016— September 30, 2016
Biology of Global Infectious Diseases and its intersection with Public Health
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Marilyn Parsons, Center for Infectious Disease Research, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Dates : September 12, 2016— September 30, 2016
People Problems of Cyber Security: Theories, Problems, Solutions Page
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, North Campus, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, School of Computer& Systems Sciences
Dates : August 16, 2016— August 26, 2016
154027C06 : Tropical Ecohydrology Intensive
Foreign Faculty : Prof. L.A. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel, Netherlands (Holland, Europe)
Host Faculty : Prof. Satish Garkoti, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : August 15, 2016— August 28, 2016
154027N02 : Rethinking Decolonization: Slavery, Reparations, History
Foreign Faculty : Prof. David Scott, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. G. Arunima, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Dates : August 12, 2016— August 29, 2016
154027C02 : SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY AND BIOVALORIZATION
Foreign Faculty : Prof. R.D. Tyagi, INRS-ETE, University Qu?bec, Canada
Host Faculty : Prof. I.S. Thakur, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : August 1, 2016— August 12, 2016
154027H05 : BioAssays & BioEfficacy Models: Tools, Targets & Technologies (Paradigm Shift in New Drug Discovery & Biotechnology Research
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Babu Tekwani, National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Dates : July 25, 2016— August 05, 2016
154027C05 : Glaciers and Water Resource Management
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Geography, Germany
Host Faculty : Prof AL Ramanathan, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : July 25, 2016— July 30, 2016
Reporting Heritage: UNESCO and the New Order of Things
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Lynn Meskell, United States of America
Host Faculty : Rakesh Batabyal, Centre for Media Studies, SSS
Dates : July 25, 2016— July 29, 2016
154027H02 : Molecular Underpinnings of Secretions and Membrane Fusions in Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Bhanu P. Jena, George E. Palade University Professor Distinguished Professor Dept. of Physiology, School of Medicine Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Chem. Eng. & Material Sciences, College of Engineering Wayne State University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Pramod Yadava, School of Life Sciences
Date: June 19 - 25, 2016
154027F05 : Introduction to Francophone Sub Saharan African Cultural Production
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Sada Niang, University of Victoria, Canada
Host Faculty : Sebastian Thejus Cherian, Centre for French & Francophone Studies, SLL&CS
Date: 4th May - 15th May, 2016
154027F04 : South Indian Models of the Mind
Foreign Faculty : Prof. David Shulman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Host Faculty : Prof. HS Shiva Prakash, School of Arts and Aesthetics
Date: March 13- March 22, 2016
154027G02 : PERSONAL GENOMICS: Foundations, Tools and Applications in Predictive and Precision Medicine
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Steven Brenner, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : March 1, 2016— March 7, 2016
154027H01 : Photosynthesis of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotc organisms
Foreign Faculty : Professor Govindjee , Professor Emeritus Biochemistry, Plant Biology; and Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Illinois, USA, url: http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee
Host Faculty : Prof. Baishnab C Tripathy, Professor and Dean of School of Life Sciences
Dates : February 08, 2016 - March 04, 2016
154027B01 : Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecular Solutions and Its appication to In-silico Drug Design
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Fumio Hirata, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Host Faculty : Dr. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : 27th January - 9th February, 2016
154027F02 : Literary History and Literary Cosmopolis
Foreign Faculty : Prof Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Professor Kunal Chakrabarti, Centre of Historical Studies, SSS
Dates : January 1, 2016— January 14, 2016