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Event End Date Event Title
The European Union and India: A Discussion from a European Perspective
Modernity in post-independence Indian Literature
Guest Lecture Series (CSMCH) Modernity in post-independence Indian Literature.
Nomadic Narratives in the front of the Thar Desert
"Re-investigating Prebisch Singer Hypothesis (1900-2015)".
Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean: Politics and Convergence.
Re-investigating Prebisch Singer Hypothesis (1900-2015)
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonialism and Metropolitan Dissent
Statistical Mechanics, Localization and Periodically Driven Quantum Systems
Political Economy of Climate Change
Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed)
Theory of capitalism as a class relation, and its implications for understanding geographically uneven development
STATE WITHOUT HONOUR Women Workers in India's Anganwadis
Discrepancy for Symplectic Lattices
The Growing Role of Higher Education: Implications of the Major Global Growth in Participation in Higher Education
A Quantum Hall Phase Transition in nu=0 Graphene
Registration schedule for Continuing Students from 30.12.2016 to 11.01.2017
Take-off in life" and Life-style management module "Boundless Energy
Democracy, Values and the People
Winter Break 06.12.2016 to 05.01.2017
Should the Judges Watch News? Indian Media and Issues in Jurisprudence
Love in the Time of Choleric Capital
Circular from Registrar's Office for all faculty, staff and students of JNU.
Invite you to the launch of the book The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
Utilizing Online Learning in Educational Institutions to Improve Learning Outcomes
Invite you to the launch of the book The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
Jayprakash Narayan Memorial Annual Lecture to be delivered by Mr. Jagdeep Chhokar
Recent Advances in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology-2016 (ICRAN-2016)
Veda as Global Heritage: Scientific Perspectives
CSS is organising an International Conference on Veda as Global Heritage: Scientific Perspectives from 15-18 December, 2016

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.