Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on December 17.

*Please register at gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp by December 14th (Fri) without changing the title.
*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 17th December, 2012
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Purnendra Jain, PhD, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia; President, Asian Studies Association of Australia
Theme: “Rising India: Where to in Relations with Japan?”
Language: English, (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)

After several decades of political oblivion, India has emerged as a confident nation on regional and global stages. Economically ascendant - and nuclear-armed - India’ spheres of international influence now stretch far beyond South Asia and its past allies like the former Soviet Union. The Look East policy has opened new channels of engagement bilaterally and multilaterally around Asia but India-Japan relations appear to be far from their full potential. Despite the absence of conflicts of interest, historical baggage or territorial disputes and even with mutual goodwill and popular interest the relationship can still be characterised as ambivalent. Why this distance between Asia’s two oldest democracies? And what might be done to bring these two Asian giants closer, so they can actively engage bilaterally and jointly have a positive regional and global influence on matters of shared issues and visions.

Speakers’ Profile:
Education:
1968 BA (Pol Sci) 1st class with Hons, Magadh University (India)
1971 MA (Pol Sci) 1st class 1st, Patna University
(India)
1981 MPhil (East Asian Studies), Delhi University
(India)
1988 PhD (Asian Studies) thesis on Japan, Griffith University (Australia)

Professional Experiences:
1973-1980 Lecturer, Delhi University
1980-1981 Japan Foundation Fellow
1987-1988 Senior Lecturer, Delhi University
1989-1995 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Griffith University 1995-present Professor, University of Adelaide

Visiting scholar and fellow at the University of Oxford (1993); University of Tokyo (1999 and 2011); Harvard University (2007); National University of Singapore (2007); Columbia University (2011)

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus: http://www.grips.
ac.jp/about/access.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Iso

gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp or 03-6439-6037
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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