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CSRD organises 40th Indian Geographers Meet 2019

CSRD organises 40th Indian Geographers Meet 2019

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CSRD organises 40th Indian Geographers Meet 2019
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Centre for the Study of Regional Development
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
 
Cordially invites you to
 
40th Meet
 
&
 
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
WATER, SUSTAINABILITY, LIVELIHOOD and CLIMATE CHANGE
 
March 14th -16th 2019
 
Venue: Auditorium, School of Social Sciences I
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
 
PROGRAMME
 
Inauguration: 10.00 am, 14th March 2019
 
Chair : Rajiv Siwach, NABARD (TBC)
 
Welcome : Sachidanand Sinha, Conference President and Chairperson, CSRD
About the Conference : Milap C Sharma, Convener
 
Secretary’s Address : Ravindra Jaybhaye, General Secretary- IIG
Presidential Address : A. K. Bhagwati (IIG President)
Key note Address : H. Ramachandran
 
Vote of Thanks : Bikramaditya K Choudhary, Organizing Secretary
A B Mukerji Memorial Lecture by H. S. Sharma at 12.00 Noon, 14th March 2019
 
Chair: K. K. Sharma, Director, Northern Regional Centre, ICSSR
Moonis Raza Memorial Lecture by M.H. Qureshi at 5.00 pm, 15th March 2019
 
Chair: D. P. Tripathi, Member of Parliament
Valedictory Session: 2.30 pm, 16th March 2019
 
Valedictory Address : Amitabh Kundu , Distinguished Fellow, RIS
Remark from the Chair : K. R. Dikshit, Patron, IIG
Vote of Thanks : Bhaswati Das, CSRD, JNU
 
Technical sessions will be held in School of Social Science-III

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.