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Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

Monthly Seminar Series

 

  1. Panel discussion on ‘Manipur: Strategic Solutions and Future Discourse’ by Sanjoy Hazarika, Angela Rangad, Balveer Arora, Rita Manchanda and Pradip Phanjaubam, on 12th July 2024
  2. Lecture by Dr. C. Lalmuansangkimi, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on “Women Entrepreneurship in Mizoram and the Use of Digital Media Platforms: Toward Digital Empowerment for Alternative Livelihood, Self-Reliance and Gender Equality”, on 04.04.2024.
  3. Book discussion on the book: "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History 1942-2000 '', by author Prof. ArupjyotiSaikia, Professor, IIT, Guwahati on 02.11.2023.
  4. Documentary screening of "Voices of Teesta '' (40 minutes) and followed by a talk on "Sikkim Himalaya: Geo-Environment, Development and Disaster." by Prof. Vimal Khawas, Professor, SCSNEI on 13.10.2023.
  5. Book discussion on the book: A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change, by author Mr. Ashish Kundra, IAS on 02.06.2023.
  6. Lecture Dr. Mitul Baruah, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology and Environmental Studies,Ashoka University, on 29.07.2022, on the topic, “Slow disaster: Political ecology of the Brahmaputra Valley Hazardscape”.
  7. Lecture by Dr.Bitopi Dutta, Assistant Professor, School of Libral Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, on 24.06.2022, on the topic, “Growing Up In A Mining Area: Gendering Labour, Leisure and Mobility”.
  8. Lecture by Dr. Deepak Naorem, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi,on 06.05.2022, on the topic, “Which sounds matter to the Empires? Linguistic Survey of India and making gramophone records of Tibeto-Burman languages.
  9. Seminar by Dr.Raktim Patar, Department of History, Gargaon College, Simaluguri, Assam on the topic “MAHARJA PRITHU: THE UNSUNG WARRIOR KING OF KAMARUPA WHO ANNIHILATED BAKHTIYAR KHILJI,” on 29.03.2022.
  10. Lecture by Kham Khan SuanHausing, Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, on the topic “Indigeneity, territoriality and conflicts in Northeast India,” on 05.11.2021.
  11. Lecture by Dr.Jelle J. P. Wouters, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology, Royal Thimphu College, on the topic “ Desire and Delirium in Highland Northeast India”, on 24.09.2021.
  12. Lecture by Prof. ShahnajHusne Jahan, Professor of archaeology; director of the Center for Archaeological, Studies and head of the General Education Department in the University of Liberal Arts on the topic “Cultural and Commercial Connections between Bangladesh and North East India,” on 05.08.2021.
  13. Lecture by Dr.SwargajyotiGohain, Assistant Professor & HOD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, Haryana on the topic “Eco-friendly Buddhism: Anomaly or Adaptation?,” on 16.07.2021.
  14. Lecture by Dr. Kaustubh Deka, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Dibrugarh University, Assam on the topic “Blowing gas wells, coal mining in elephant reserves Nature, nation, nationalities: Northeast India as a resource frontier’ on 16.04.2021.
  15. Special lecture on “Winding Roads, Inter-state Highways, and Infrastructural Politics in Manipur”, India by Vibha Arora, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi as on 15.11.2019.
  16. Special Lecture on “Marginality and Intersubjectivity (Rethinking of a Philosophy of Demarginalization ref. to Tribal Reality)’, by Prof. S. Lourdunathan Visiting Professor, Centre for Philosophy, JNU as on 08.11.2019.
  17. Book discussion on the book, “The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919 : A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during the First World War”,  Routledge India, 2018, With the Author JankhomangGuite (Author), Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi &ThongkholalHaokip (Co-Author) as on 25.10.2019.
  18. Seminar on “Health Infrastructure and Disease Burden in West Bengal with Special Reference to North Bengal”, by Farhat Hossain, Ph.D Scholar, SCSNEI/JNU as on 11.10.2019.
  19. Seminar on “The Rise of the Invisible Publics Stardom and Visibility Infrastructures of Assam”, by Sagorika Singha, Doctoral Scholar, SAA/JNU.
  20. Seminar on “Did Sarengla Marry a Japanese Soldier? Rethinking India-Japan relationship through World War II”,  by Makiko Kimura, Associate Professor, Tsuda University, Tokyo as on 30.08.2019.
  21. Lecture on ‘Development Dilemma: The Plight of Downstream People of the Thoubal Multipurpose Project’, delivered by Huidrom Renuka, Ph.D. Scholar, Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, May 03, 2019.
  22. Lecture on ‘Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India’, delivered by JangkhomangGuite, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, April 26, 2019.
  23. Lecture on ‘Locating the Economy of Human Trafficking: A Study on Trafficking of Women and Children from Manipur’, delivered by GaithoiluGangmei, Ph.D. Scholar, Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 12, 2019.
  24. Lecture on ‘Himalayas as an Imagined Geography’, delivered by Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University, March 29, 2019.
  25. Lecture on ‘Naming a People in Imaginary Homelands: Tracing histories of Zo categorisations along the Indo-Burma borderland’, delivered by Golan SuanzamungNaulak,Integrated Mountain Initiative, New Delhi, March 8, 2019.
  26. ‘Lecture on Beyond Unholy Trinity: Nexus in Infrastructure Development in Manipur’, delivered by Raile Rocky Ziipao,Harvard University, February 22, 2019.
  27. Lecture  on ‘Trends in Growth, Composition and Participation of Workforce in Kashmir Since 1980: Problems and Policy Measures’, delivered by Bilal Ahmad Khan, ICSSR Post -Doctoral Fellow, SCSNEI, JNU, January 18, 2019.
  28. Lecture  on ‘Writing Identity in North East India: Reflections on the Colonial Category of ‘Old Kuki’, delivered by Ngoru Nixon, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship,     Ambedkar University Delhi, November 16, 2019.
  29. Lecture on  ‘Marriage and Motherhood in the time of Revolution: Narratives from ULFA’, delivered by Munmi Pathak, Ph.D. Scholar, Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, October 26, 2019.
  30. Lecture on ‘Fire-arms and state-making: Connections across the Indo-Burma borderlands’, Special delivered by Joy L.K. Pachuau, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School     of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, October 12, 2019.
  31. Lecture on ‘Our Words and Theirs: Framing the Relationship between Language and Education in     the Naga Hills, 1870-1940s’, delivered by BaunaPanmei, Ph.D. Scholar,    Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, September 28, 2019.
  32. Lecture on ‘Situating Northeast India in Regional Diplomacy’, delivered by K. Yhome, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi, August 24, 2018.
  33. ‘Reading Negotiations of Self in the Writings of Mary Mead Clark and Ursula Graham Bower’, Lecture delivered by Bhumika R, Ph.D. Scholar, Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, August 10, 2018.
  34. Lecture on “Data infrastructure and the politics of citizen-making: Analyzing the Assam NRC citizen identification project” delivered by Khetrimayum Monish Singh, The Centre for Internet and Society, New Delhi on March 09, Friday, 2018.
  35. Lecture on “Transition in Myanmar and Implications for India”, delivered by Sanjay Pulipaka, East Asia Research Programme, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi on February 23, Friday, 2018.
  36. Lecture on “For those who wait: Money, Time and Infrastructures in Manipur, North-East     India”, delivered by NimaLamuYolmo, University of California-Irvine, USA & Visiting Scholar, NEISP on January 19, Friday, 2018.
  37. Lecture on ‘Writing Outside the Box” delivered by Easterine Kire, Author and Poet on January 09, Tuesday, 2018.
  38. Lecture on “‘Gender Strategies’: Marriage Within and Across Borders”, delivered by LovitoliJimo, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi, held on October 27, 2017.
  39. Lecture on “Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Musical Experiments in Mid-Twentieth Century Assam”, delivered by Dr. PracheeDewri, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, held on October 13, 2017.
  40. Lecture on “State of ethnographic enquiries: Narratives on the Nagas of British India’s North-East Frontier, 1832-1935”, delivered by Dr. SodolakpouPanmei, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, held on September 22, 2017.
  41. Lecture on “Interrogating Frontier State: History and Politics in Mizo Hills”, delivered by C. Zonunmawia, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, held on September 15, 2017.
  42. Lecture on “The ‘Other’ in Khasi Society: A Case of the Nepali Population in Shillong”, delivered by Oyindrila Chattopadhyay, Doctoral Candidate, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, held on August 25, 2017.
  43. Lecture on “The Great Game in India’s North-East: Imperial Geo-Politics in the Making and Unmaking of Assam-Tibet Borderlands”, delivered by Bikram Bora, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, held on August 11, 2017.
  44. Lecture on “Role of Civil Society and Philanthropy in India’s northeast”, delivered by Dr Monica Banerjee, Director, National Foundation for India, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, held on April 28, 2017.
  45. Lecture on “Politics of Distinction and Political Economy of Indigenous Cultural Rights in North East India”, delivered by Prasenjit Biswas, NEHU, Shillong, held on 27 January, 2017.
  46. Lecture on Immigration in Assam during 1951-2011, delivered by Dr. Nandita Saikia, held on 10th November, 2016.
  47. Lecture on Geological Surprises' and the Politics of Risk in the Himalayan Borderlands, delivered by Mabel Denzin Gergan, held on 14th October, 2016.
  48. The Cauldron of Conflict Politics of Peace, Governance and Development in India’s North East, lecture delivered by Prof. Bhupen Sarmah, held on 29th September, 2016.
  49. Violence and Displacement in the Forest Areas of Bodoland,Assam: 1993-2012, lecture delivered by Dr. Makiko Kimura, held on 9th September, 2016.
  50. Bamboo Folklore, lecture delivered by Dr. S. Simon John, held on 18th July, 2016.
  51. Film Screening “One Last Question”, PrathameshKrisang (Film Director), held on 21st April, 2016.
  52. Lecture on Securitization of civil resistance: Thailandsmilitary junta and India's nascent authoritarianism, delivered by Dr. JanjiraSombatpoonsiri, held on 1st April 2016.
  53. Seminar on “Securitization of Civil Resistance: Thailand’s Military Junta and India’s nascent authoritarianism”, held on 1st April, 2016. Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Lecturer, Thammasat University, Thailand and Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, JNU
  54. Lecture on “Beyond Equality: Class and Culture among the Urban Naga Youth from Nagaland”, held on 7th March, 2016, delivered by Andreas Kuchle, PhD Scholar, Institute of Social Sciences/ Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany:
  55. Lecture on :“Understanding Tribal or Indigenous Societies in India & their Present Trajectories of Change”, delivered by Prof. Felix Padel, Visiting Professor, NEISP held on 21st October, 2015.
  56. Book Discussion on “Landscape of Fear: Understanding Impunity in India” , held on 12th October, 2015. Navsharan Singh, Samir Das, WarishaFarasat, Bhagat Oinam, Chair: Dr. PratikshaBakshi:
  57. Report Discussion on “The State and the Adivasis: The Political Economy of Forest Rights” , held on 29th September, 2015, Kaveri Gill, Chair: Prof. JayatiGhosh
  58. Panel Discussion on “Naga Peace Process: Past and Present” , held on 13th August, 2015. BimolAkoijam, KekhrieYhome, Rita Manchanda, Prof. Sanjoy Hazarika, Moderator: Prof. Samir Kr. Das:
  59. Book Discussion on “Rendezvous with Rebels: Journey to Meet India’s Most Wanted Men” held on 24th July, 2015. Rajeev Bhattacharya, freelance researcher and journalist, Discussant: Prof. Samir Kr. Das
  60. Lecture on “Shifting Identities and their Ritualization/Festivalisation in Trinitad& Tobago” by Dr.Satnarine Balkaransingh, in collaboration with IGNCA, New Delhi, held on 21.02.2014.
 
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars
  1. SCSNEI had organised National Seminar “PurvottarSamvad 2024”, with collaboration with ISHAN BODH on the topic "North East Odyssey: Exploring History, Philosophy, Culture, and Science" on 30th-31st March, 2024.
  2. SCSNEI had organised a 3-Day National Seminar which was held on 1-3 March 2023 at Department of Linguistics, Manipur University, Imphal. The seminar on “Languages and Knowledge System: Distinctiveness and Prosperous Features of Texts and Oratures in North East India''.
  3. SCSNEI had organised a 3-Day National Seminar which was held on 1-3 February 2023 at GontseGadengRabgye Ling Monastry, Arunachal Pradesh. The Seminar on “Development and Promotion of Non-Scheduled Languages: Challenges and Opportunities in North East India.
  4. SCSNEI had jointly organized with University of Bergen (Centre for the Study of Sciences and the Humanities and Department of Social Anthropology) and University of Oslo (Department of Philosophy), the seminar on "Silent Whispers: Cosmologies, Nature-Human Relationship and Ecological Distress in Northeast India" was held on 13 and 14 December 2022 in SIS-II, JNU.
  5. SCSNEI had organized 2 days National Conference on "Participation of Poorvottar Bharat in the BharatiyaSwadhinata Sangram", at IIT Guwahati was held on 20 & 21 September 2022.
  6. The two days National Webinar (Young Scholars Conference) on ‘Space, Knowledge, Capital’ was organized from 18-19 February, 2021. The Webinar was financially supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Dr. Manjeet Baruah and Dr.LipokmarDzuvichu were the Faculty coordinators of the Webinar.
  7. International Young Scholar’s Conference on ‘Margins and Connections’, 7 - 8 February, 2019. Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma was the faculty convener of the Conference. The following students were members of the organizing committee: Bhumika R., Tanmoy Das, Robert LunkhopaoHaokip and ThingminaoHoram.
  8. Two Day’s Colloquium on ‘Illegal Migration and NRC: Lessons from North East India’, 24 – 25January, 2019. Dr.Kh. Bijoykumar Singh was the convener of the Colloquium.
  9. International conference on  “Between Empires: The Making and Unmaking of Borders 19th -20th Centuries” Organised by North East India Studies Programme , School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Supported by ICSSR, New Delhi, 1 and 2 February, 2018 on 1st and 2nd February, 2018.
  10. National Conference on “Society and Social Change in North East India,” held on 10 March, 2017.
  11. National Conference on ‘Understanding North East India: ‘Exception’ and Beyond’, held on 16-18 November 2015.
  12. National Conference on “Rethinking Development: Challenges in North East India”, jointly organised by NEISP, JNU, New Delhi and Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, from 30th to 31st July, 2015.
  13. National Conference, organised in collaboration with JNIAS, on “Framing a Region: New Perspectives on North East India”, held on 25-27 March, 2015.
  14. International Conference on, ‘State and Society in North East India,’ held on 26 – 28 February, 2014.

 

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.