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GIAN Courses

GIAN approved courses

 

2025

Course Name : EURASIAN GEOPOLITICS AND THE 'NEW' GREAT GAME IN CENTRAL ASIA
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Pierre CHABAL, Director, LexFEIM Law and Political Science Research Centre, Le Havre University, France
Host Faculty : Prof. Archana Upadhyay, CRCAS, SIS, JNU
Duration : 13th January - 24th January 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course Name : Hyperbolic geometry, Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces
Foreign Faculty : Athanase Papadopoulos, Senior Researcher (Directeur de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Host Faculty : Prof. Riddhi Shah, SPS, JNU
Duration : 27th January - 2nd February 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course Name : German-Indian Theatrical Relations: From the Age of Enlightenment to the 21st century
Foreign Faculty : Professor Peter W. Marx, University of Cologne
Host Faculty :   Dr. Ameet Parameswaran, SAA, JNU
Duration : 27th January -31st January 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course NameROLE OF BRICS IN GLOBAL TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND RUSSIA
Foreign Faculty : Prof Alexander Nikulin, Russian Presidential Academy for National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow
Host Faculty : Dr Sudhir Kumar Suthar, CPS, JNU and Prof Sanjay Pandey, CRCAS, SIS, JNU
Duration : 10 - 16 February 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course Name : Quadruple Helix and Strengthening Knowledge Interactions for Frugal Innovation
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Peter Knorringa, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Hague, Netherlands
Host Faculty : Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri, CSSP, SSS, JNU
Duration : 17 - 21 February 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course Name : Physics of Living Systems
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Daniel Riveline, Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Host Faculty : Dr. Manoj Munde, SPS, JNU
Duration : 03 - 07 March 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

Course Name : THE STANDARD MODEL : from symmetry principles to experimental tests
Foreign Faculty : Yosef (Yossi) Nir, Professor of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Host Faculty : Dr. Poonam Mehta, SPS, JNU
Duration : 24 - 28 February 2025
Link for Registration: https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

 

2022

Course Name : RADIATION BIOLOGY AND ITS CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Vikram Bhadrasain, Chief, Clinical Radiation Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethseda, USA 
Host Faculty : Prof. Vibha Tandon , Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU
Duration : 26-03-2022 to 31-03-2022
Link for Registration: http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN/index

 

Course Name : RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (RRI): CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND PRACTICES
Foreign Faculty : Robert Braun, Senior Researcher Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria, and Associate Professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Host Faculty : Dr. Saradindu Bhaduri and Dr. Anup Kumar Das, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences
Duration : 07-03-2022 to 18-03-2022

 

2019

Course Name : Photographic Theories and Practices
Foreign Faculty : Ms. Taina Meller, George Eastman Museum, New York, USA and Prof. Christopher Pinney, Univ. College London, UK
Host Faculty : Dr. Suryanandini Narain, School of Arts and Aesthetics
Duration : 28-10-2019 to 08-11-2019

 

 

2018

Course Name : Synthetic Analog Circuit Design in Living Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Thomas E. Kurtz Professor at Dartmouth College, USA
Host Faculty : Prof. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Duration : 30-07-2018 to 04-08-2018

Course Name : Cloud-based bioinformatics with Apache Spark
Foreign Faculty :Dr Johan Nyström-Persson, Douglas Connect GmbH, Switzerland, and Level Five, Japan
Host Faculty : Professor Shandar Ahmad, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Duration : 03-10-2018 to 07-10-2018

Course Name : Cloud Data Center Service Provisioning: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Course Area : Mathematical & Computer Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Jemal Abawajy, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, , Australia
Host Faculty : Deo Prakash Vidyarthi, School of Computer and Systems Sciences
Duration : 29-01-2018 to 09-02-2018

Course Name : Twentieth Century Narrative: Five African American Practitioners
Course Area : Humanities & Liberal Arts
Foreign Faculty :Amritjit Singh, , United States of America
Host Faculty : GJV Prasad, Centre for English Studies, SLL&CS
Duration : 12-02-2018 to 18-02-2018

Course Name : Urban Issues in a Globalized World
Course Area : Architecture, Design, Planning and Heritage
Foreign Faculty :Ajay Agarwal, , Canada
Host Faculty : Shrawan Kumar Acharya, CSRD, SSS
Duration : 15-02-2018 to 21-02-2018

Course Name : Advanced Electron Microscopy for Materials Science
Course Area : Physical Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Benjamin Butz, , Germany
Host Faculty : Dr. Balaji Birajdar, Special Centre for Nano Science
Duration : 13-03-2018 to 22-03-2018

Course Name : Two Karls are Better Than One!!! Capitalism, Crisis, Critique: On Ecology, Democracy and Social Reproduction
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty : Nancy Fraser, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof Amit Prakash and Prof Niraja Gopal Jayal,  Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Duration : 19-03-2018 to 23-03-2018

Course Name : Multifunctional Complex Oxide Thin Film Heterostructures by Design
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Host Faculty : Prof. Satyabrata Patnaik, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 20-03-2018 to 30-03-2018

Course Name : Food for a Healthy Planet
Foreign Faculty : Professor Mohan B Singh, University of Melbourne, Australia
Host Faculty : Prof. Ashwani Pareek, School of Life Sciences and Dr. Rajbeer Singh, Center for Studies in Science Policy, SSS
Duration : 02-04-2018 to 07-04-2018

Course Name : A Hybrid Approach to Develop Time-Space Resolved Estimates of Air Quality
Foreign Faculty :Naresh Kumar, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami, Miami , USA
Host Faculty : Arun Srivastava, School of Environmental Sciences
Duration : 18-06-2018 to 22-06-2018

 

2017

Course Name : Dendrecology: Application of Tree-Ring Analysis to Ecological Science
Course Area : Earth & Environment Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Peter Z. Fule, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Satish Chandra Garkoti, School of Environmental Sciences
Duration : 11-12-2017 to 22-12-2017

Course Name : Dark matter: the astro-particle perspective (Poster)

 

Course Area : Physical Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Subir Sarkar, , United Kingdom
Host Faculty : Dr. Poonam Mehta, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 18-12-2017 to 23-12-2017

 

Course Name : Can magnetic Microsystems/nanomagnetics enable powering of internet of things?
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Saibal Roy, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland, Ireland
Host Faculty : Dr Poonam Agarwal, School of Computer & Systems Sciences
Dates : 07-12-2017 to 12-12-2017

Course Name : Literature, Language and Territory: Aspects of Contemporary Literature in French
Course Area : Humanities & Liberal Arts
Foreign Faculty :Fabienne Dumontet, , France
Host Faculty : Prof. Dhir Sarangi, Centre for French & Francophone Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Duration : 06-12-2017 to 16-12-2017

Course Name : In the Event of Women: Teaching East to East, South to South
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Tani Barlow, Professor at Department of History Rice University, Houston, TX USA 77001,United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Duration : 27-11-2017 to 08-12-2017

Course Name : Applications of Environmental Cost Benefit Analysis using Welfare Economics
Course Area : Social Sciences
Foreign Faculty :Madhu Khanna, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Sangeeta Bansal, Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies
Duration : 30-10-2017 to 08-11-2017

Course Name : Animal Welfare Science and Assessment
Course Area : Other Categories / Interdisciplinary Categories
Foreign Faculty :Cathy Mary Dwyer, , United Kingdom
Host Faculty : Prasenjit Sen, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 06-11-2017 to 17-11-2017

Course Name : Farm Animal Nutrition and Welfare
Course Area : Other Categories / Interdisciplinary Categories
Foreign Faculty :Clive Phillips, , Australia
Host Faculty : Prasenjit Sen, School of Physical Sciences
Duration : 11-09-2017 to 16-09-2017 (Time-Table)

Course Name : Biology of Global Infectious Diseases and its intersection with Public Health
Course Area : Life Sciences & Healthcare
Foreign Faculty :Marilyn Parsons, Center for Infectious Disease Research, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Duration : 21-02-2017 to 03-03-2017

Diversity and Identity among India's Jews
Foreign Faculty : Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher at the RIFIE (Research Institute for Innovation in Education) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, , Israel
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : January 23, 2017— January 31, 2017

 

2016

Spatial Data Analytics
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Shashi Shekhar, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Ayesha Choudhary, School of Computer & Systems Sciences
Dates : December 26, 2016— December 30, 2016

Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Supriyo Datta, Purdue University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Subhasis Ghosh, School of Physical Sciences
Dates : December 12, 2016— December 16, 2016

154027C04 : Thermochemical Processing of Biomass
Foreign Faculty : Professor Mark Mba Wright, Iowa State University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Professor Dinesh Mohan, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : December 5, 2016— December 16, 2016

Synthetic Analog Circuit Design in Living Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Rahul Sarpeshkar, Dartmouth College, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : December 1, 2016— December 15, 2016

Diversity and Identity among India's Jews
Foreign Faculty : Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher at the RIFIE (Research Institute for Innovation in Education) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, , Israel
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : November 21, 2016— November 28, 2016

Latest Methods in Structural Biology
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Christian Betzel, Germany
Host Faculty : Prof. Samudrala Gourinath, School of Life Sciences
Dates : November 14, 2016— November 25, 2016

Jerusalem and the Abrahamic Faiths throughout the Ages
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Moshe Aa'oz, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Host Faculty : Prof P. R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies
Dates : November 9, 2016— November 17, 2016

154027F01 : Modernism, Feminism, and the Avant Garde
Foreign Faculty : Prof Michael Levenson, University of Virginia, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Brinda Bose, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Dates : October 24, 2016— November 4, 2016

In the Event of Women: Teaching East to East, South to South
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Tani Barlow, Professor at Department of History Rice University, Houston, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Dates : September 15, 2016— September 30, 2016

Biology of Global Infectious Diseases and its intersection with Public Health
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Marilyn Parsons, Center for Infectious Disease Research, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Dates : September 12, 2016— September 30, 2016

People Problems of Cyber Security: Theories, Problems, Solutions Page
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, North Campus, , United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, School of Computer& Systems Sciences 
Dates : August 16, 2016— August 26, 2016

154027C06 : Tropical Ecohydrology Intensive
Foreign Faculty : Prof. L.A. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel, Netherlands (Holland, Europe)
Host Faculty : Prof. Satish Garkoti, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : August 15, 2016— August 28, 2016

154027N02 : Rethinking Decolonization: Slavery, Reparations, History
Foreign Faculty : Prof. David Scott, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. G. Arunima, Centre for Womens Studies, SSS
Dates : August 12, 2016— August 29, 2016

154027C02 : SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY AND BIOVALORIZATION
Foreign Faculty : Prof. R.D. Tyagi, INRS-ETE, University Qu?bec, Canada
Host Faculty : Prof. I.S. Thakur, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : August 1, 2016— August 12, 2016

154027H05 : BioAssays & BioEfficacy Models: Tools, Targets & Technologies (Paradigm Shift in New Drug Discovery & Biotechnology Research
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Babu Tekwani, National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Rentala Madhubala, School of Life Sciences
Dates : July 25, 2016— August 05, 2016

154027C05 : Glaciers and Water Resource Management
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Geography, Germany
Host Faculty : Prof AL Ramanathan, School of Environmental Sciences
Dates : July 25, 2016— July 30, 2016

Reporting Heritage: UNESCO and the New Order of Things
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Lynn Meskell, United States of America
Host Faculty : Rakesh Batabyal, Centre for Media Studies, SSS
Dates : July 25, 2016— July 29, 2016

154027H02 : Molecular Underpinnings of Secretions and Membrane Fusions in Cells
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Bhanu P. Jena, George E. Palade University Professor Distinguished Professor Dept. of Physiology, School of Medicine Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Chem. Eng. & Material Sciences, College of Engineering Wayne State University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Pramod Yadava, School of Life Sciences
Date: June 19 - 25, 2016

154027F05 : Introduction to Francophone Sub Saharan African Cultural Production
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Sada Niang, University of Victoria, Canada
Host Faculty : Sebastian Thejus Cherian, Centre for French & Francophone Studies, SLL&CS
Date: 4th May - 15th May, 2016

154027F04 : South Indian Models of the Mind
Foreign Faculty : Prof. David Shulman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Host Faculty : Prof. HS Shiva Prakash, School of Arts and Aesthetics
Date: March 13- March 22, 2016

154027G02 : PERSONAL GENOMICS: Foundations, Tools and Applications in Predictive and Precision Medicine
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Steven Brenner, United States of America
Host Faculty : Dr. Andrew Lynn, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : March 1, 2016— March 7, 2016

154027H01 : Photosynthesis of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotc organisms
Foreign Faculty : Professor Govindjee , Professor Emeritus Biochemistry, Plant Biology; and Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Illinois, USA, url: http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee
Host Faculty : Prof. Baishnab C Tripathy, Professor and Dean of School of Life Sciences
Dates : February 08, 2016 - March 04, 2016

154027B01 : Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecular Solutions and Its appication to In-silico Drug Design 
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Fumio Hirata, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Host Faculty : Dr. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Dates : 27th January - 9th February, 2016

154027F02 : Literary History and Literary Cosmopolis
Foreign Faculty : Prof Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Professor Kunal Chakrabarti, Centre of Historical Studies, SSS
Dates : January 1, 2016— January 14, 2016

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.