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Event End Date Event Title
Journey through Molecular Biophysics: When Many Molecules Come Close
The space of the Mohalla political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities
"The continuing practice of Untouchability in India: Implications for open defecation"
Resurgence of Nuclear Power: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia
The diffusion of New Technologies: Cross-breeding Classical and Schupeterian Ideas
10TH All India RASK International Seminar on India-Korea Relations: Forging a Multidimensional Partnership in the 21st Century
Goodbye, Mayfly
Research As Realization: Science, Spiritualty and Harmony
'Transport Business, Agrarian Structure and Government Intervention: Meerut district and division during the Great Depression (c. 1930-40)'
Neurotic Realism Cinema, Otherness and the New Indian Middle Class
Who Writes for Whom? A Discussion on Politics of Telling
Kusana Inscriptions Reexamining the Marks of Empire
Flow Cytometery and its applications" on 12th – 13th April, 2016
BALOCHISTAN: A Call for Awakening Conscience
Transdisciplinary Disaster Research Programme
"Earthquakes and Landslides: Addressing Administrative and Technological Challenges in Building Community Resilience"
Political Reading of Ambedkar's Buddhism
Meeting of the Sanskrit and Science Forum
CCTV Oddity: Archaeology and Aesthetics of Video Surveillance
Reconceptualising Ambedkar
Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör
Imagining a New Nation: Perspectives of Two Women Novelists in Tamil Krithika (1915 – 2009) and Rajam Krishnan (1925- 2014)
From Dissection Tables to Past Lives: On Medicine and the Humanities
Labour Time, Leisure Time and Culture: Indentured in Suriname
A Village and a Country: Development through Seven Decades of Palanpur
Geopolitical Shift in the Global Energy Market and in GCC Countries
Disobedient Students, Dubious Guardians A History of Hostels in Colonial Calcutta
Nature Inspired Computational Architectures
Africa: A Continent of Exclusion
Technologies for Water Treatment and Reuse: Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP)

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.