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Archive Lectures

Archive Lectures

LECTURES

The Archives on Contemporary History (also known as Joshi Archives) was founded by P.C. Joshi, the first General Secretary of the united Communist Party of India. The Archive holds an annual lecture in his memory. Following is the list of memorial lectures from 1993 to till date.

Speaker

Topic

Year

GEETA KAPUR

Public Address: Citing Installation and Performance Art

31 March 2014

ANAND PATWARDHAN

Cinema of Resistance: A Personal Journey
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12 February 2013

NIKHIL DEY

Participatory Democracy and the Future of Dissent 
(Struggles for the Redistribution of Power)

28th February 2012

RAM RAHMAN

Sunil Janah, Photographer & P.C. Joshi: The Making of a Progressive Culture

18th February 2009

ARJUN SENGUPTA

United Front & the Communist Movements

9th November 2008

BIPAN CHANDRA

PC Joshi: A Political Journey

17 August 2007

SHYAM BENEGAL

Secularism and Indian Cinema

18 April 2005

TEESTA 
SETALVAD

Combating Communalism: A Quest for Answers

31 March 2003

MOHIT SEN

Communism in our Times: Reflections of a Communist

26 March 2002

HABIB TANVIR

Cultural persuasions of Politics and Their implications

16 October 2000

BHISHAM SAHNI

The Cultural Landscape

22 October 1999

ALI SARDAR JAFFRI

Literature as Chronicle of the Age

18 November 1998

MRINAL SEN

Rambling Thoughts of a Roving Stone

17 October 1997

E.M.S. NAMBOODIRIPAD

Marxism, Religion and Caste

15 October 1996

HIREN MUKHERJEE

Socialism and the Re-Making of Man: A Far Cry? Yet the Prime Proud Quest

6 November 1995

ASHOK MITRA

Socialism: The Day After or The Day Yet to Be

21 November 1994

IRFAN HABIB

The Marxian Theory of Socialism and the Experience of Socialist Societies

4 November 1993
 


During winter semester 2013, the Archives organized a Monthly Lecture Series on Cultural Politics of the Left movement in India. The following seminars were organized in this series -

(1) Sumangala Damodaran, "Music and Protest: The Making of the Radical Popular in the IPTA's Musical Tradition" on 24 January 2013
(2) Trina Banerjee, "The Problematic of Desire and Control in Cultural Action: The 'Case' of Anil De Silva and the IPTA (1940-48) on 28 February 2013 
(3) Rajarshi Dasgupta, "Nature and Technology in Communist Art: On Ritwik Ghatak's film" 'Ajaantrik' on March 21, 2013 
(4) Ameet Parameswaran, "Poverty and Transformative Self in the Left Aesthetic: An Analysis of K. Damodaran's Pattabakki (Rent-Arrears)" on April 22, 2013. 

 

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.