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CWS organises a webinar by Dr. Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma

CWS organises a webinar by Dr. Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma

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CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES,
JNU

 

Invites you to a Webinar by

 

Dr. Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma
(Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Place, Culture and Politics of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with interests in urban theory, labour migration and politics of development)

 


TOUCH AND TECH: LABOUR AND THE WORK OF THE PANDEMIC

 

6th August 2021, 3.00 pm IST

 

Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/sfz-swhc-kvx


To Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TdoDS6dEyRvIkqIXgiAPZ4eL5JBJjFars83mjWKNObQ/edit

 

The pandemic has forced capital and the state to re-examine many activities and work processes in terms of their potential to bring together people, their capacity to activate processes that would involve touch and proximity, and in terms of alternative modes of imaging work and consumption. In this talk, the speaker asks: what is the specific moment-a process- that the pandemic represents and what are the changes the pandemic has brought into labour and work? There is no single answer to this question; her project here is to think through certain tendencies that we have seen in the past few months.

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.