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Ameet Parameswaran

Ameet Parameswaran

Ameet Parameswaran
Ameet Parameswaran
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Room No
002, SAA
Residence
07838080603
Email
ameet@mail.jnu.ac.in , ameet.parameswaran@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/ameet
Qualifications
PhD, Theater and Performance Studies, University of California Los Angeles. 2012
M.Phil. Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2008
MA, Arts and Aesthetics, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2005 
Areas of Interest/Specialization

Performance Theory; Political theatre; Globalisation and performance; Technology-body intersection in performance; Feminism and Gender theory; Region studies.

Experience

2012 August- 2014 August. Visiting Faculty, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2012 August- 2014 August. Adjunct Faculty, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Teaching Assistant: Theatre and Performance Studies, University of California Los Angeles. 2009-2012.

Awards & Honours
Conference Bursary of International Federation for Theatre Research Conference 28 July to 1 August 2014 in Warwick, United Kingdom. 2014
James Pendleton Foundation Prize, School Wide Award for Academic Research by The School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California Los Angeles. 2011
School of Theatre, film and Television, University of Los Angeles Conference Travel Grant for ASTR Conference Montreal, Canada. 2011
School of Theatre, film and Television, University of Los Angeles Conference Travel Grant for ASTR Conference, Seattle. 2010
Chancellor's Prize, University of California Los Angeles. 2008-2010
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and National Eligibility Test (NET) of the University Grants Commission, India, in the subject “Performing Art-Dance/Drama/Theatre”, December, 2006. 
International Collaboration/Consultancy

Post-doctoral Scholar in the research project, Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance, Jawaharlal Nehru University—University of Warwick Collaboration. Project date: 1st April 2014 - 31 March 2016. Funded by UGC-UKIERI .

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
‘Affirmation and Disidentification: The Labour of Performing ‘Brand India’’, in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts vol. 19:2, 2014 June, pp. 54-62. DOI:10.1080/13528165.2014.928517. Pub: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group).

‘Zooësis and ‘Becoming with’ in India: The ‘Figure’ of Elephant in Sahyande Makan: The Elephant Project’, in Theatre Research International, vol. 39 (1), March 2014, pp. 5–19, DOI: 10.1017/S0307883313000515. Pub: Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming. ‘Contemporaneity and Collective: The Reportage in Amma Ariyaan’, in Essays On Kerala Modernity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese. Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. 
Patents (if any)

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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.