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CPS organises the Annual Nirman Foundation Lecture by Lisa Wedeen

CPS organises the Annual Nirman Foundation Lecture by Lisa Wedeen

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CENTRE FOR POLITICAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, JNU

 

organising

 

THE ANNUAL NIRMAN FOUNDATION LECTURE

 

on
Theorizing the Present: Ideology, Conspiracy, and the Freedom to Lie

 

by
Lisa Wedeen

 

Time: 03: 00 to 5: 00 pm (IST)
Date: 11th March 2024
Venue: LECTURE HALL-II, CONVENTION CENTRE , JNU

Lisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College, Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Associate Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship.

 

The Nirman Foundation with a lifetime endowment from Professor Bhikhu Parekh has been supporting many programmes in the Centre for Political Studies. It is committed to providing scholarships to MA students and support for an annual lecture and research workshops for faculty and students. One of the programmes under this endowment allows for a lecture series for faculty and students to meet and learn from distinguished scholars. In the past, the following scholars have given the Nirman Foundation Lecture: Madhav Menon (2004), Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph (2007), Upendra Baxi (2008), Marc Galanter (2009), Partha Chatterjee (2010),
Charles Taylor (2011), Chetan Bhatt(2012), Sudipta Kaviraj (2014), Arindam Chakrabarti (2015), V. Geetha (2016), Usha Ramanathan (2017), Rajeev Bhargava(2018), Prasenjit Duara (2019), Leela Fernandes (2020), Arjun Appadurai (2021), and Christophe Jaffrelot (2023).

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.