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Conferences/Lectures/Seminars

Indo-German International Conference on Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from 22-24 September, 2015

International Conference on Documenting the past: Painting, Photography and Cinema in South Asia organized by Dr. R. Mahalakshmi and Dr. Eva Ehninger, University of Bern from 4-5 February, 2015

Workshop on State and Power in Modern India Organised by CHS-JNU, New Delhi and Kings College, London (Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya) from December 3-4,2014

International Conference on The Politics of History and the History of Politics: History, Policy, Media Organised by Prof. Bhagwan Josh & Dr. Jyoti Atwal, CHS and the Deakin University, Australia (Dr. Bhagwan Josh.) from 27th and 28th November, 2014

Discussion session with a visiting team of students and teachers from the Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA on Friday, 17th October 2014. (Organised by Dr. Najaf Haider).

Lecture on Health,gender and tradition in the formation of British legal responses to assisted suicide in early nineteenth century North India

Seminar on "From Command to Consent: The Representation and Interpretation of Power in the Late-medieval Eurasian World, November 5 and 7,2014, organized by Prof. Rajat Datta

A lecture on "Western Epistemologies and Colonial Educational experimentation in the Punjab Organised 1855-1900" by Dr. Tim Allender,Associate Professor, University of Sydney on 10th November,2014 (Dr. Jyoti Atwal).

Workshop on "1947 Archive: Voices of Partition" on 21 November, 2014 organised by Dr. Sucheta Mahajan

International Conference on The Politics of History and the History of Politics: History, Policy, Media" held on 27th and 28th November, 2014. Organised by Prof. Bhagwan Josh & Dr. Jyoti Atwal, CHS and the Deakin University, Australia (Dr. Bhagwan Josh.)

Workshop on State and Power in Modern India held on December 3-4,2014. Organised by CHS-JNU, New Delhi and Kings College, London (Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya)

International Conference on 4th & 5th February.,2015 on Documenting the past: Painting, Photography and Cinema in South Asia organized by Dr. R. Mahalakshmi and Dr. Eva Ehninger, University of Bern.

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.