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Veena Hariharan

Veena Hariharan

Veena Hariharan
Veena Hariharan
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Room No
05
Residence
09971148160
Email
veenahariharan@mail.jnu.ac.in, hariharan.veena@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/veenahariharan
Qualifications

PhD, Critical Studies, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, 2011
Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies, University of Southern California, 2008
M.A., Critical Studies, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, 2006

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Transnational cinema, Silent cinema, Colonial and Postcolonial cinemas; Visual cultures of empire and nation; home movies and amateur film, International documentary and avant-garde film, Ecocinema, Regional cinemas 
Experience
Worked in Advertising, Media production and Academic & trade publishing before entering the PhD at University of Southern California, Los Angeles;
Working as Assistant Professor at JNU from 2010 onwards 
Awards & Honours
Margaret Beveridge Senior Fellowship, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, 2010-11
The Oakley Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2009-10
Summer Research Grant, USC Visual Studies, Summer 2009
SCA Award, University of Southern California, 2008-09
Peer Pederson Award, University of Southern California, 2007-08
Cinema Circulus Award, University of Southern California,2005-06 
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
(2012), "The Twice-Lived Fragment of Time: Memory, Time-travel and the Photographic Image in Chris Marker’s La Jetée", Journal of the Moving Image. 11: 134-51

(2014), "At home in the Empire: The Colonial Home Movies of Edgar S Hyde", Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. 5(1): 49-61

(2014), "Representations of Violence in the First-Person Documentary: Archival Footage and Documentary consciousness", Studies in South Asian Film & Media. 6(1): 45-59 

(2015), "Inner-city Symphony: Water Ritual #1 An Urban Rite of Purification". In Alternative Projections: Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles, 1940-80 edited by David E. James. UK: John Libbey Publishing. 215-26

(2015) "Through the Painter’s Eye: MF Husain and Film". In A Voyage of Discovery by MF Husain. Marguerite and Kent S Charugundla. Tamarind Art Gallery, New York. 3-9. 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
Guest Editor, Wide Screen, Special Issue 2012, "Art, Performance and Documentary" 
Patents (if any)

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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.