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Event End Date Event Title
On the BSD and Iwasawa Conjecture over a Global Field of Characteristic p>0
Travelling to Work
Minding the Gap: Visions of Science, Civilization and the Politics of Cancer in Underdeveloped Nations (India and South Africa, 1940-50s)
Magic Numbers: Number Magic
Liberating Female-centric Forms of Knowledge and Action to Transform Society
Education, Migration, and Global Development Agendas: MDGs and SDGs
Agrarian Question in Contemporary Indian Politics
"Open Day 2016"
Intimations of Modernity: Time-Space, the Subaltern, and the De-colonial
Between Cognitivism and Deleuze:A "relativist" dialogue
Tame Ramification and Group Cohomology
Japanese Majolica Tiles in Late Colonial India Sanitation, Consumption, and the Making of National Landscape
Another Marx: The Indiscrete Charm of Incompleteness
Constructing Gender in West Bengal: expectations and outcome
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany New Delhi
Ontology of Information as a Right in the Right to Information Movement in India
Mediated Buzzwords Understanding Manufacture of News
Designing Functional Nanomaterials via Chemical Interactions
Living in Peace & Harmony in a Multicultural World
The Creation of a Communal Ethos in Colonial Punjab A Study of Proscribed Literature, 1920s and 30s
Demobilised, Dispossessed…Disappeared? In Search of Women Rebels of ULFA in India's Northeast
The Geography of Philosophy
The Romance of Revolution: literature, gender and anticolonial militancy in colonial India.
A meeting to remember Professor Randhir Singh
The Factory
The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life
Sacralising the Foetus: The Birth of the Unborn Person in the Anglophone World
China and India: Opporunities and Challenges for Latin America
"The Return of the Body: Revisiting Cultures of the Body"
BEING A GYPSY IN THE WORLD OF IDEAS

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.