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CHS Oorganises a Lecture by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer

CHS Oorganises a Lecture by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer

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27th February, Tuesday 2018, 3 pm

Venue : Room 326, SSS III JNU

 

Second Irish Studies Lecture by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer (Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity’s research institute for advanced study in the Arts and Humanities; she is also CAS Visiting Fellow at CHS, SSS )

 ‘Ireland and India: a connected history, 1660s-2010s’  by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer

Chair : HE Ambassador Brian McElduff

 

Lecture abstract  India has come to Ireland.  In June 2017 Leo Varadker, the son of an Indian born doctor – Ashok Varadker - from Mumbai, became the Prime Minister (or ‘Taoiseach’) of Ireland. This is an important moment for Ireland but also for India. Thanks to the fact that Ireland’s was England’s oldest colony and India’s was its largest, our histories have been connected for nearly 350 years. Bombay’s founding father, Gerald Aungier, takes Irish interaction with India back into the late seventeenth century when Ireland served as a colonial prototype for the early colonization of early India.  From this moment the Irish were both servants of the British Empire in India and subversives within it, something that this talk explores.

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.