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CMS organises a workshop on “AI For Social Scientists: How Scholars Can Now Build AI Tools?”

CMS organises a workshop on “AI For Social Scientists: How Scholars Can Now Build AI Tools?”

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Centre for Media Studies
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

in collaboration with

Centre for Advanced Research on Development & Change (CARDC)
New Delhi

 

Organizes Workshop on

 

“AI For Social Scientists: How Scholars Can Now Build AI Tools?”

 

Abstract: Participants will get hands-on experience using cutting-edge tools that can empower them as social scientists in their research work. Using OpenAI and other software participants will learn how to use AIs to pull Hindi language news media from YouTube, transcribe, and then translate it into English before finally processing it for semantic analysis. By the end of the workshop, non-technical social scientists will have built their first AI tool.

 

NICHOLAS BOOKER

 

About the Resource Person: Nicholas Booker is the Co-founder of IndoGenius and Realversity Technology, a Government of India-approved start-up in the field of AI and ML. He is one of the leading experts on Indian higher education and research. He has worked as an Indian partner on multiple bilateral and multilateral Government-backed projects with the UK, US, EU, Australia, and New Zealand. Nick has managed projects for the British Council, UKIERI, U.S. Department of State, New Zealand Prime Minister’s Scholarships, Australian Government (DFAT) New Colombo Plan, European Commission, Government of India (MHRD and MoHFW), and several dozen European, and American and Australian universities. His projects include European Commission initiatives related to science, technology, and innovation in India - including the SI House Project (for the French Ministry of External Affairs) and more recently INDIGO POLICY.

 


DATE: Thursday, 29th February, 2024
TIME: 11.00 AM.
VENUE: Committee Room, SSS-I Building

 


(All are welcome)

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.