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JNU Alumni Affairs

JNU Alumni Affairs

The Alumni Affairs office has organized a number of activities, to develop the Alumni Network of JNU. These include the following:

  1. JNU Alumni Annual Meet 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
  2. Prof. Anand Kumar former Chief Advisor from 2008 to 2011.
  3. Creating a data base of JNU Alumni.
  4. Creating an Alumni Website on JNU Website.
  5. Two workshops for placement and Career Counselling & Guidance in JNU on August 26th 2009 and April 8th, 2011.
  6. A talk by the Hon. Prime Minister, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai of Nepal who is also an alumnus of the University. He visited the campus on 22 October, 2011. Dr. Bhattarai spoke movingly about the role that JNU played in his life, crediting it with his political growth.
  7. The Alumni Lecture Series- the first lecture was delivered by the writer CS Lakshmi (Ambai), an alumnus of JNU, on 6 March, 2012, to an audience of students, alumni, and faculty.
  8. The 2nd Alumni Lecture was delivered by Ambassador Dr. S Jaishankar on "India and China: Perception and Reality" on March 14, 2013.
  9. The 3rd lecture titled "Ganga Dhaba to Beijing, D.C., Geneva and Dubai" was delivered by Shri Venu Rajamony, Press Secretary, President of India, Rashtrapati Bhawan, on 9th October, 2014.
  10. Holding the first elections for the Alumni Association of JNU on 15th September 2012, as per the constitution passed by the Executive Council of the university.
  11. A momentous one day conference on the experiences of JNUSU presidents, "Life beyond JNUSU", on 6th January 2013.
  12. Screening of "Wo Subah Kidhar Nikal Gayi" on November 1, 2013 by our alumnus Dr. Tripurari Sharan, D.G. Doordarshan, which is based on JNU experience.
  13. Screening of the film "India by Song" on 16th April 2014 the film is by Mr. Vijay Singh an alumnus of JNU.
  14. On 14th October, 2014 our Alumna Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Honourable Minister of Commerce & Industry, released the documentary entitled, "JNU: The dream and the vision". This film was produced and directed by our alumnus Dr. Indrajeet Pant.
  15. The establishment of a branch of India Coffee House on the campus at Aravali International Guest House (opening shortly). This will be open to all members of JNU. Community.

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.