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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

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CSDE organizing a Young Scholars' Seminar

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Young Scholars’ Seminar 2019

Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy: Towards inclusivity

Exploring opportunities for SC/ST Entrepreneurs

JULY 24-25, 2019

The Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi is organizing young scholars’ seminar jointly with National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) to provide platform to young academia and entrepreneurs to share their experience and research on core issues of social exclusion and inclusive policy with a special focus on promotion of entrepreneurship among SCs and STs. The focus of the Center is to enable further research on present and future sites of exclusion, and inclusive policy.

Sub-Themes

The following sub-themes are envisaged as the main focus of the seminar:

  • Conceptualizing exclusion and Inclusion based on caste, ethnicity and religion.
  • Emerging trends in Entrepreneurship
  • Role of industry, organizations, civil society, MSME, and NGOs in promoting Entrepreneurship
  • Political Participation and Exclusion
  • Educational Disparities
  • Violence and Exclusion
  • Disability, Exclusion and Policies for Inclusion
  • Gender and Exclusion

 

Coordinator               :           Prof. Yagati Chinna Rao, Chairperson, CSSEIP

Student Coordinator :           Ms. Aditi Narayani

Email Id                     :           csde.sss@gmail.com

For any query            :           +91-9650144604

 

Deadline for Abstract Submission:  19thJune 2019

Word limit for abstract: 500 words and please send abstract along with the CV.

Selected Participants will be notified on 24th June 2019

Submission of full paper: 10th July 2019

 

 

No travel allowance and accommodation will be provided.

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.