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CHS organises 4th Indo Irish Leture by Dr Heather Laird

CHS organises 4th Indo Irish Leture by Dr Heather Laird

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CHS organises 4th Indo Irish Leture by Dr Heather Laird
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Centre for Historical Studies
 
in collaboration with
 
Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi
 
&
 
 University College Cork, Ireland
 
Invites you
 
to
 
4th  Indo Irish Leture
 
on
 
“‘Remembering’ Past Futures: Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries and the Roads Untaken in History”
 
 
 
By
 
 
 
Dr Heather Laird
 
University College Cork
 
at  
 
25th February 2019 at 11 am
 
Room 447, SSS III, JNU
 
Chair : Prof Himanshu Prabha Ray
 
Guest of Honour : HE Ambassador Brian McElduff, Embassy of Ireland
 
 Abstract
 
A commemoration process that is shaped by critical/radical historical frameworks should consider not only what happened in the past, but what else might conceivably have happened.  By acknowledging the existence of historical alternatives at a given moment, we can access that moment’s contingencies.  These unrealised yet often fully realisable past futures are especially numerous during periods of potent possibility; points in time when the future seems particularly open to being shaped by those living in the present.  In this lecture, Dr Heather Laird argues that the decade that Ireland is currently commemorating is an example of one such point in time, and proposes ways that we might ‘remember’ that decade’s untaken roads.
 
 
Dr Heather Laird teaches in the School of English, University College Cork, Ireland.  Her research interests cross disciplinary boundaries and include theories and practices of resistance, particularly as they relate to land usage; Irish culture since the early nineteenth century; and critical/radical historical frameworks.  She is the author ofSubversive Law in Ireland, 1879-1920 (2005) and Commemoration (2018).

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.