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Event End Date Event Title
SLS organises a special lecture by Prof. Shekhar C. Mande
SLS organises seminars by Prof. Neena Mitter and Dr Steve Fletcher
SCIS organises two distinguished lectures by Dr. Dipika Bansal and Prof. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain
IHA organises SPIC MACAY program
ABVSME organises four-day industrial seminar on Viksit Bharat @ 2047
SPS organises a talk by Dr. Himal Bhatt
SC&SS organises an expert talk by Prof Sanjay Misra
SSIS and SC&IS jointly organises International Conference on "Environment and Society : Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives (Mathematical and Computational Approach) (IC-ESTCP-2024)"
JNU Faculty Club organises 75th Republic Day
CCUSLAS organises a lecture by Prof. John Portz
Vistas in Life Sciences 2024, An International Conference Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the School of Life Sciences
LEC organises a workshop on "Words That Publish: English for Scholarly Writing and Academic Publication"
SLS organises an International Conference "Vistas in Life Sciences 2024" to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of SLS
TRCFS & CSLG organises a public lecture by Dr. Sanghamitra Chakravarty
SBT organises a talk by Prof. Bal Ram Singh
LEC announces the commencement of Winter 2024 program
ABVSME organises a guest lecture by Prof. Tripurari Pandey
ABVSME organises a guest lecture by Arvind Gupta
SCMM organises a seminar by Ravindra Singh
CESP organises a Seminar by Ishita Chatterjee
JNU organises 193rd Birth Anniversary of Mata Savitribai Phule's Jayanti
SLS organises Mini-Symposium on "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Biomedical Sciences"
SPS organises One-day National Mathematics Day Symposium
CSSEIP organises a symposium on "Sustainable Development Goals and Social Inclusion: Financing, Access and Quality of Education"
SoE organises a special talk on "Challenges of Provisioning Applications in edge-cloud-IoT continuum" by Prof. Rajiv Ranjan
ZHCES organises a seminar by Ariel Gomez
SCNS organises 5th One Day Symposium on "Cancer Diagnostics"
CP, SSS organises International Workshop on "Signs of the Social: Ethics and Ontology"
CESP Golden Jubilee Conference on "Economic Theory and Policy in India"
IHA with NSS organises Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav

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.