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GENDERED MYTHS OF CONFLICT AND BELONGING FROM INDIA AND LATIN AMERICA

GENDERED MYTHS OF CONFLICT AND BELONGING FROM INDIA AND LATIN AMERICA

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Project Fellow: 01
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Centre of Spanish, Portuguese Italian and Latin American Studies
School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University

POSITION AVAILABLE

Applications were invited for the following post in UGC MRP titled "GENDERED MYTHS OF CONFLICT AND BELONGING FROM INDIA AND LATIN AMERICA".

Project Fellow: 01

Qualifications: A second class Master's degree in Spanish with a minimum of 55% for general category and 50% in case of SC/ST/PH. The candidate should be below 40 years and s/he should do work full time in the project and get the fellowship from one source only.

Essential: S/he should be working for M.phil/PhD in the field of Comparative Gender Studies with respect to India/Latin America. Preference will be given to candidates who can speak and/or write at least one Indian language other than Hindi or English. However if no suitable multilingual candidate is found, anybody else fulfilling the rest of the essential qualifications may be hired.

The salary will be fixed as per the guidelines of the UGC.

NET QUALIFIED – Rs. 16000/- p.m. for one year only but extendable up to another year after review of work done.

NON-NET – Rs. 14,000/- p.m. for one year only but extendable upto another year after review of work done.

HRA: Suitable hostel type accommodation may be provided for Project Fellow failing which they are eligible for HRA as per rules of the university.

Potential candidates are invited to apply on a plain paper with CV to the under mentioned by 15th July, 2016.

Prof. Indrani Mukherjee,
Centre of Spanish Studies, 
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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.