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CSRD is organising a lecture by Tim Dyson

CSRD is organising a lecture by Tim Dyson

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CSRD is organising a lecture by Tim Dyson
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Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD)
School of Social Sciences (SSS)

a lecture on

On writing a population history of India

by 
Tim Dyson
London School of Economics

Room No. 126, Moonis Raza Committee Room, CSRD, SSS-III
on March 03, 2017, 11-30 am

About The Speaker: Professor Tim Dyson, an eminent demographer, is currently with LSE. He has held visiting positions at various prestigious universities and institutes around the world and has been president of British Society for Population Studies. His work on the role of the demographic transition in creation of the modern world by considering the transition's major causal processes and their multifarious effects, are considered to be pioneering in the field of formal demography. He has published several books on India's demography, both in its historical and contemporary contexts. Some of his prominent books includes: 'Population and Development: The Demographic Transition'; 'Population and Food: Global Trends and Prospects'; 'India's Historical Demography'; and 'India's Demography: Essays on the Contemporary Population'.

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.