Jawaharlal Nehru University
Located in the Indian capital New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is an energetic and vibrant institution classed amongst the premier universities of India.
A truly multicultural institution, JNU was named after the first Prime Minister of India and is founded on the Nehruvian ideas of national integration, social justice, secularism, democracy, international understanding and a scientific approach to the problems of society.
As an institution with an emphasis on research, JNU shares King’s vision and became the College’s key strategic international partner in November 2008. The cooperation will initially focus on the areas of History, Geography, Education, Politics, Language, Law and International Relations, with further fields to follow.
The two institutions signed a student exchange agreement earlier in 2011, allowing PhD students to travel in each direction for visits of 2-4 months.
Recent and ongoing collaboration with JNU includes:
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King's PhD student Mark Griffiths has been sponsored to visit JNU from July to December 2012 through King's Partnership Grant.
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Ira Bhaskar and Ranjani Mazumdar from JNU took part in a symposium on Indian film in March 2010 organised by University of London Screen Studies Group’ screenstudies.sas.ac.uk.
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King’s visiting scholars taught on the JNU Film programme which started 2010-11.
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Three King’s historians – Nandini Chatterjee, Richard Drayton and Jon Wilson – held a workshop on the history of empires at JNU in November 2008; the history department hosted visiting scholars from JNU throughout the 2009-10 academic year.
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Susan Murray (King’s, Nursing) is currently developing a research bid with Ramila Bisht (JNU, Centre for Social Medicine & Community Health) on global health governance, and Alex Faulkner (King’s Centre for Biomedicine and Society) is developing a project on biosciences.
Contact Dr Kriti Kapila at King’s for further information about this partnership.
For more information about JNU please visit their website.