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Past Events (2014)


12th November 2014, Dr. Harish Naraindas, Vampires,Virtuosos and Victims: Medical Tourism as a Morality Play.

5th November 2014, Dr.Shonaleeka Kaul, Revisiting the Rajatarangini: The Problematic of History in Early Kashmir.

29th October 14, Raziuddin Aquil, Deptt. Of History, Delhi University, Literary and Historical Traditions in Medieval India: Some Historiographical Concerns.

22nd October 2014, Dr.Elizabeth Prevost, Education reform and the neo-traditional design of womanhood in colonial Africa.

15th October 2014, Dr. Amir Ali, CPS/SSS/JNU, Enlightenment Chiaroscuro: Islam at Home in the West.

8th October 2014, Prof. David Vumlallian Zou, The Politics of Translation and Transaction in Colonial Mizoram.

1st October 2014, Pilar Maria Guerrieri, The City of Delhi: Architectural and Urban Elements 1912-1962.

24 September 2014, Dr. G. Arunima, Centre for Women's Studies, JNU , Ways of Reading the Fragmented Jewish Past in Kerala : Archives, Narratives and Questions of Method.

17 September 2014, Dhiraj Kr. Nite, Ambedkar Univ. Delhi, Refashioning the woman self and mining producers and homemakers in South African minefield 1951-2911.

15th Septt.,2014, Nationalism.

10th September 2014, Dr. Pratiksha Baxi CSLG/JNU, Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India.

3rd September 2014, Prof. Biswamoy Pati Deptt. Of History, University of Delhi Delhi, Criminalising the poor or targeting the malady? Exploring the social history of leprosy in colonial India, 1870-1940.

27th August,2014, Cristina Scheibe Wolff & Janine Gomes da Silva, Emotions and gender in the memory of the resistance in the Southern Cone countries & Women's memories and gender relations in the dictatorship of Brazil (1964-1985): past memories, and present political activities.

13th August, 2014, Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, Marathas, Rajputs and Afghans in mid-Eighteeenth Century Indfia: Bhausahebanchi Bukhar and the articulation of Cultural Difference in Pre-colonial India .

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.