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Penn School of Arts and Sciences Monday, January 14, 2013



Transforming India into a Knowledge Power

Priyamvada Natarajan
January 14, 2013

In this issue of India in Transition, Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, and Chair, Women's Faculty Forum, Yale University, argues that despite its aspirations, India is not currently on track to becoming a global knowledge power, though swift and sweeping changes could alter that dramatically.

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CASI 2013 Summer Travel Funds Competition for Current Penn Students

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (4:00-6:00 p.m.)
OPEN HOUSE at CASI for prospective 2013 Summer Travel Funds Applicants!

Applications for CASI summer internships are now open!

Apply through Penn’s Office of International Programs-International Internship Program.
Applications close on February 1, 2013 (11:59 p.m. EST).

Applications for Summer Research Travel Funds for Penn students will be accepted from Monday, February 4, 2013 to Monday, March 11, 2013 (5:00 p.m. EST).

 


Upcoming Events

Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

“The 'Panoptification' of India: The Battle for Digital Free Will"
CGCS seminar by Malavika Jayaram (Attorney, Partner at Jayaram & Jayaram, Bangalore, and CGCS Visiting Scholar)

Co-sponsored with CASI

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Friday, January 18, 2013, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

“The Absent Dialogue: Civil-Military Relations and Military Effectiveness in India”

CASI seminar by Anit Mukherjee (CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

"Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum"

CASI seminar by Stephen P. Cohen (Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution)

RSVP to casi@sas.upenn.edu by Monday, January 28, 2013 - seating is limited

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CASI in the News

CASI Director, Devesh Kapur published “The Tea Party State” in the January 14, 2013 issue of Business Standard.

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CASI Publishes New Working Paper

“Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Long Term Effects of Indirect Rule (Chapter 5: Economic Analysis of Spatial Variation in Maoist Insurgency in India)"
Shivaji Mukherjee (Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University)

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