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2025

Course_Name:_EMERGENCE_AND_UNDERSTANDING_OF_A_COMPLEX_WORLD Foreign_Faculty_:_Prof._Dr._Fausto_Fraisopi,_Amidex_Excellence_Chair,_ “Transdisciplinarity_and_Complexity_Research_”,_Aix-Marseille_University,_Marseille,_France Host_Faculty:_Prof._Babu_Thaliath,_CGS,_SLL&CS,_JNU Duration_:_10th_–_21st_January_2025 Link_for_Registration:_https://jnucashless.fdsbase.com/

 

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 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

Course_Name_:_A_New_Vision_For_Saudi_Arabia Foreign_Faculty_:_Prof._Joseph_A._Kechichian,_Senior_Fellow,_King_Faisal_Center_for_Research_and_Islamic_Studies_(KFCRIS),_Riyadh Host_Faculty_:_Prof._Sameena_Hameed,_CWAS,_SIS,_JNU Duration_:_20th_January_-_24th_January_2025 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

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_-_1st_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_:_22nd_February_-_26th_February_2025 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

Course_Name:_From_Preference_to_Policy:_Discrete_Choice_Experiments_for_Climate_Change_Solutions Foreign_Faculty_:_Adan_L._Martinez-Cruz,_Associate_Professor_of_Bioeconomy,_Department_of_Forest_Economics,_Swedish_University_of_Agricultural_Sciences_(SLU),_Umea,_Sweden Host_Faculty:_Sangeeta_Bansal,_Professor_of_Economics,_Centre_for_International_Trade_and_Development,_Jawaharlal_Nehru_University Duration_:_3rd_–_7th_February_2025 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

Course_Name_: ROLE_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 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

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 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

Course_Name_:_Translation_and_Intercultural_Communication_ Foreign_Faculty_:_Prof._Alessandra_Consolaro,_University_of_Turin Host_Faculty_:_Dr._Ganga_Sahay_Meena,_CIL,_SLL&CS,_JNU Duration_:_17_-_28_February_2025 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

Course_Name:_Feminism,_Theatre_and_Activism Foreign_Faculty_:_Elaine_Aston,_Professor_Emerita_at_Lancaster_University,_UK Course_Co-ordinator:_Dr._Navaneetha_Mokkil_and_Dr._Mallarika_Sinha_Roy,_CWS,_SSS,_JNU Duration_:_17th-21st_February,_2025 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

 

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 REGISTRATION_CLOSED

Note_:_Interested_candidates_can_apply_using_the_application_form._Shortlisted_candidates_will_be informed via_email_by_15_January_2025_after_which_they_can_proceed_with_the_registration.

 

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