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Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA

Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA

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Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA
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<strong>The Dean School of Social Sciences </strong> a lecture <strong>"Malthusian Anticipatory Regime for Africa: Gender, Population and the Strategic Interests of the USA"</strong> by <strong>Prof Betsy Hartmann</strong>, Professor, Development Studies, School of Social Science, Hampshire College, Mass. She is Senior Policy Analyst, Population and Development Program, Hampshire College (Director from 1988-2014). She has written extensively on political economy of diverse issues such as development, poverty, environment and climate change, population control, reproductive rights and wrongs etc. Her notable works include Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Boston: South End Publishers), Deadly Election, a political thriller (White River, VT: White River Press), Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties, eds. Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam and Charles Zerner ( Rowman and Littlefield). She is the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair Award (for research and lecturing in India, spring 2015). She is currently visiting scholar, Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Date:<strong> 22nd April 2015 (Wednesday)</strong>

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.