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CSRD organises a lecture by Prof Marcus Nuesser & Dr Sussane Schmidt

CSRD organises a lecture by Prof Marcus Nuesser & Dr Sussane Schmidt

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CSRD organises a lecture by Prof Marcus Nuesser & Dr Sussane Schmidt
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Centre for the Study of Regional Development
School of Social Sciences
 
Prof Marcus Nuesser & Dr Sussane Schmidt
South Asian Institute
Heidelberg University, Germany

 


To Speak On
Permafrost, Climate Hazard & Vulnerability in the Cold Desert of Ladakh and Trans-Himalaya

 


Wednesday, October 12, 2022
4.00 PM
Lecture Room -134, SSS-III

 

Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser is the Head of South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. His research focuses on the issues of human-environment interaction, landscape transformation and regional development processes in the high mountains of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His research work stresses the importance of integrating environmental aspects and ecosystem dynamics into development processes, and building upon knowledge, adaptations, and managerial capabilities of local populations. He has also worked on vegetation patterns and floristic inventories. His seminal research on the glaciers of Nanga Parbat Massif and Ladakh on the Permafrost Processes, GLoFs, and Systems of Irrigation are highly acclaimed.
For additional info: marcus.nuesser@uni-heidelberg.de


Dr. Susanne Schmidt is a faculty in the Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on the themes related to: Human-Environment-Interaction in the High mountain regions, snow hydrology, snow ecology, and photogrammetry. She has been researching Ladakh for over a decade now.
For additional info: s.schmidt@uni-heidelberg.de

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.