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From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics.
Current Trends in Frustrated Magnetism
The Geography of Philosophy: Exploring Cultural Differences and Cultural Universals in Philosophical Intuitions & Concepts
Meat, Milk and Trees: Disciplinary and National Border-Crossing in the Materiality and Politics of Food
Comments on Flavor Mix, Energies and Fluxes of High Energy Neutrinos from Astrophysical Sources
Decolonial Pedagogy for Environment and Other Urgent Matters
Social Accounting Matrix: Concepts and Application
creative writing workshop
mini symposium
Food Politics: Media and Human Rights
EDXRF & WDXRF Techniques
Characterization of Birkhoff-James Orthogonality
Possible synthesis and characterization of magnetic semiconductors
DHARMA and GRIEF: ETHICS, SUFFERING, EMPATHY– MAHABHARATA AND RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Women and Science in Brazil: Successes and Remaining Challenges for Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society
"China Twin Silk Route Policy and Significance for India"
Higher Spin Theories: Past, Present and Future
WORKSHOP NOTICE
Rethinking Labour and the Creative Economy : Global Performance Perspectives
Some Missing Interpretations of Caste
Dance like a book: Copyright and the Conundrums of Culture
The International Comparative Human Rights Practicum
"Sign the Language of Ability : Workshop on ISL"
"Census Data Dissemination Workshop"
Should the Judges Watch News? Indian Media and Issues in Jurisprudence
Re-Ordering Processes in the Field of Humanitarian Aidwork: Negotiating Between Local and Global Concepts and Practices
Import Penetration and the Demand for Managers: Evidence from India
'NORMS OF PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS FROM MASS ATROCITIES'
Quantum Communication Network
"Future of Indology"

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.