ICS-HYI DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN CHINA STUDIES | 21TH DECEMBER 2022 @ 3 P.M. IST | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
In collaboration with the Harvard Yenching Institute (HYI), the ICS inaugurated the Institute of Chinese Studies-Harvard Yenching Institute (ICS-HYI) Joint Scholarship for Doctoral Research in January 2014. Two scholarships for a period of five years each are awarded to selected candidates, enrolled in the doctoral Programme in Indian universities. In the first year, the selected candidate would strengthen their Chinese language capabilities in India and after that spend one year in a Chinese university and the third year at the HYI in the United States. The recipients of the scholarship work across disciplines and are based in different universities in India. In the panel discussion, the panelists will share their journey as recipients of the prestigious fellowship and how it has helped them in their evolution and development as scholars/academics/researchers.
About the Speakers
Mr. Shanky Chandra is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Chinese Studies Department. School of Languages at Doon University. He is finalizing his doctoral thesis titled "Socio-Political and Cultural Factors in the Making of Chinese Science Fiction Writer Liu Cixin: Understanding The Three-Body Problem," at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, JNU New Delhi. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese science fiction.
Dr. Nishit Kumar is a trained sinologist currently working as a Research Analyst at the Centre for Contemporary China Studies, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India. His recent publications include “Howard Goldblatt’s Translations of Mo Yan’s Works into English: Reader Oriented Approach” in Translation Today (Volume 15 (1), 2021) and “The New Culture Movement and Huaju: From an Art form to an Agent of Change” in China’s May Fourth Movement: New Narratives and Perspectives, Routledge (forthcoming, 2022). In 2018, he was awarded the Institute of Chinese Studies-Harvard Yenching Institute (ICS-HYI) Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at Peking University, Bejing, and Harvard University, Boston.
Ms. Saloni Sharma is a doctoral researcher in Chinese Studies at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Liberal Studies from Ashoka University as part of the Young India Fellowship. She is a recipient of the prestigious ICS-HYI Doctoral Fellowship, 2019.
Mr. Pawan Amin is a researcher in China Studies based in New Delhi. He is pursuing his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for East Asian Studies. His research interests include China's interactions with the UN and other regional organizations, Beijing's foreign and economic policies towards countries facing protracted domestic conflicts, and its influence on deterrence stability in East and South Asia. He is a recipient of the ICS-HYI Doctoral Fellowship, 2019, and is presently pursuing his Chinese language training at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.
About the Chair
Prof. Alka Acharya is the Honorary Director of the ICS and; Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to Masters and M.Phil students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. She is the joint editor of the book Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008, and most recently edited a volume titled Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023).
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