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13-09-2016

JNU Faculty club is organizing Aerobics classes twice in a week for ladies at faculty Centre, JNU. The members who want to join these classes may please fill up the form available at Shambhu Canteen and get the details from him.


JNU Faculty club organized a two and half days (9th, 10th ,11th Dec. 2011) tennis tournament for the children, who have been learning tennis from the tennis academy in JNU campus. The tournament was inaugurated at 3 pm on 9th Dec. In the closing ceremony, prizes were distributed by Prof. Sopory, Vice Chancellor to winners. Tennis coaching classes are being held in the campus for faculty children for the past 4 years, organized by faculty club.

JNU faculty club celebrated 15th Aug. by organizing a football match and painting competition for faculty children in the stadium. Every year on this auspicious day, faculty club organizes events for the faculty and their families. This has been a practice for the past few years. There are nearly 100 children of faculty ranging between age 2 to 18 years old, shows the importance of having a club like faculty club to take care of their needs, especially sports and other co-curricular activities in the campus.

Sunita Reddy, K. Ekrammudin, R. Rijwan

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.