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Circular and Notices

Circular and Notices

S.No. Notice-Title Date Notice File
481 SINGLE SEATER SENIORITY LIST (GIRLS) Single Seater Hostel Allotment List (Girls) (1).pdf
482 Single Seater Hostel Allotment List (Girls) Web_Provisional Lists Post 115 CSRD SSS UR RC_64_2022_0.pdf
483 Final Seniorty List for Single - Seat applicants' for the year 2017-18 (Girls) SINGLE SEATER 01.09.2017 final.pdf
484 Notification : Allotment of hostel accommodation for boys during the academic year 2017-2018 boys 2017-18.pdf
485 Notification : Allotment of hostel accommodation for girls during the academic year 2017-2018 girls 2017.pdf
486 70st Independent Day of INDIA Tuesday 15th August 2017 abc.jpg
487 The NSS, AAJ and JNU Community is organising a tree plantation drive from August 15, 2017 to August 22, 2017 Plantation Poster.pdf
488 Tentative Single Seater list(Boys & Girls) for the academic year 2017-2018 SINGLE2017.pdf
489 Notification: Allotment of Hostel Accommodation 2016-17 HostelAccommodation16-17 (1).pdf
490 Circular for all terminal students to surrender their hostel rooms TerminalStudentsSurrenderRoom.pdf

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.