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CES, SLL&CS organises a series of three lectures

CES, SLL&CS organises a series of three lectures

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Wednesday, 20 March 2019
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
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CES, SLL&CS organises a series of three lectures
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The Centre for English Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
is organizing a series of three lectures.
 
Professor Erik Simpson (Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities)
 
and
 
Dr Carolyn Jacobson (Senior Lecturer),
 
both from Grinnell College, Iowa, USA, are here to deliver a series of lectures on Vampires. The schedule is as follows:
 
Day One: Wednesday, March 20th, Room no. 212,SL-1, 2 p.m. onwards
 
Where Vampires Come From: The Nineteenth-Century Gothic, Irish Fictions, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula"
 
 
Day Two: Friday, March 22nd, Room no. 212,SL-1, 4 p.m. onwards
 
Victorian Journeys: Dracula and Gothic Internationalism”
 
 
Day Three: Wednesday, March 27th, Room no. 212,SL-1, 2 p.m. onwards
 
“‘May I hear it say something?’: Dracula, Dialect Speech, and Victorian Technologies of Sound Recording”
 
 
All are cordially invited.
 

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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.