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SIS organises Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lectures 2024 on "India’s Foreign Policy in a Fragmented Planet"

SIS organises Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lectures 2024 on "India’s Foreign Policy in a Fragmented Planet"

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Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lectures 2024

 

The School of International Studies, JNU, will be hosting the Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lectures 2024 to celebrate its founding 70 years ago, in 1955. The flagship event of the School of International Studies, JNU, has been designed as an interface between the world of scholarship and the domain of policy making. Delivered by subject experts, the lecture series is open to the wider civil society. The theme of this year’s series is:

 


India’s Foreign Policy in a Fragmented Planet

 

Dates: 26 February 2024 to 01 March, 2024.
Venue: Convention Centre, JNU

 

Inaugural Address:
Dr S. Jaishankar,
Hon’ble Minister of External Affairs,
Government of India
on 26 February 2024 at 4 pm
 
Special Lecture:
Ambassador (Retd.) Kanwal Sibal,
Chancellor, JNU
on 28 February 2024 at 11 am

 

Valedictory Address:
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman,
Hon’ble Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs,
Government of India
on 01 March 2024 at 4 pm

 

Thematic Sessions:
SIS Faculty Members with expertise in the respective domain
between 27 February 2024 and 01 March 2024
from 11 am to 4.30 pm.

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.