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Center for the Advanced Study of India
Introduces
The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series
A newly endowed public
program that brings leading experts on contemporary
India to the Penn campus. CASI launches the series
in the 2007-2008 academic year as India marks its
60th anniversary of independence.
At a time when India
is rapidly growing in stature, CASI strongly believes
that the Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series will
further the India dialogue at the University and beyond.
It serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding
the complex economic, political, social and cultural
changes that the world's largest democracy is experiencing,
as well as the challenges that lie ahead. This generous
support from the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation enables
CASI to offer four lectures during each academic year
delivered by renowned India specialists from academia,
government, business, culture, and other disciplines.
Some of the programmatic themes for this inaugural
year feature democracy and economy, finance, the legal
system and human rights, and foreign policy.
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"The Future of India's Foreign Policy"
His Excellency Ronen Sen
Ambassador of India to the United States of America
Lecture:
April 18, 2008
6:00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Venue:
Woodlands Ballroom A
Lobby Level
The Hilton Inn at Penn
3600 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
His Excellency Ronen Sen is India’s Ambassador to the United States. A career diplomat, Ambassador Sen joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1966. From 1968 to 1984, he served in Indian Missions/Posts in Moscow, San Francisco, Dhaka, and the Ministry of External Affairs. From 1984 to 1985, Ambassador Sen was Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. He was subsequently Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister of India from January 1986 to July 1991, responsible for Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Science and Technology. He
was Ambassador to Mexico from 1991 to 1992; Ambassador to the Russian Federation from October 1992 to October 1998; Ambassador to Germany from October 1998 to May 2002; and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from May 2002 to April 2004. In August 2004, he assumed charge as Ambassador of India to the United States. In this Washington, D.C., post, he also serves as a ex officio member of CASI’s International Advisory Board, a role designated to the ambassador of India to the U.S. since the Center’s founding in 1992.
Full text of the Lecture by His Excellency Ronen Sen. [PDF]
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"Judicial Overreach or Oversight?"
Justice Ruma Pal
former Justice of the Supreme Court of India
Lecture:
March 4, 2008
5:30 p.m.
Venue:
Gittis Hall 213 & 214
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Reception: 6:45 p.m.
Venue:
The Great Hall
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Parking available at the public lot at 34 th and Chestnut Streets.
Justice Ruma Pal is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India who served on the bench from January 2000 to June 2006. The Honorable Mrs. Pal received her B.C.L. degree at Oxford University and started her practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Kolkata High Court. After a distinguished career as an advocate, she was appointed Judge in the Kolkata High Court in August 1990. She was appointed to Supreme Court of India on January 28, 2000, the day of the Golden Jubilee of the court. Justice Pal has delivered many critical judgments in famous cases, and has written on a number of human rights issues. She is a member of the International Forum of Women Judges and serves on the Committee of Experts of the International Labor Organization. Justice Pal also holds the Ford Foundation Chair for Human Rights at the National University for Juridical Sciences at Kolkata and is on the boards of several NGOs that work on human rights. |
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"Reforming the Indian Banking System: Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done"
Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago
Date & Venue:
November 8, 2007
5:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 8th floor, The Wharton School, 3730 Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
Prior to resuming teaching, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2006.
Dr. Rajan graduated from IIT Delhi in 1985 with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and I.I.M. Ahmedabad in 1987. He joined the Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Chicago in 1991 after obtaining a Ph.D. from MIT. In 1994, Rajan was voted tenure and appointment as Professor of Finance.
Dr. Rajan's research interests focus primarily on economic development, and the role finance plays in it. His papers have been published in all the top economics and finance journals, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. He has also written a book with Luigi Zingales entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, which was published by Random House in February 2003.
In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance.
Dr. Rajan is on a number of boards and advisory councils. He currently chairs the Committee on Financial Sector Reforms which will propose reforms of the Indian financial sector to the Indian government.
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"Democracy and Economic Transformation in India"
Professor Partha Chatterjee
Columbia
University and Centre for the Studies in Social Services,
Calcutta
Date & Venue:
October 3, 2007
5:00pm
Logan Hall, 14 (Terrace Room), 249 S. 36th St
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Professor Chatterjee is working on a series of historical-anthropological
studies entitled "Empire Against Terror".
His book "A Princely Impostor? The Strange and
Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal" was
published in 2003. It is a book on a court proceeding
in Bengal in 1934-36 on establishing the identity
of a person. The case offers several interesting
problems regarding colonial assumptions on Indian
identity, popular beliefs on political authority
and personal morality and finally the techniques
of the modern state to establish identity. The second
project is a series of critical inquiries into the
modern state as it has developed in the ex-colonial
countries of Asia and Africa. It takes up questions
such as national borders, sovereignty, citizenship,
welfare and democracy. He is also actively engaged
in the collective project of Subaltern Studies.
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