University Scholar Series: Ruma Chopra

Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America On April 30, 2014, Dr. Ruma Chopra spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Interim Provost Andy Feinstein at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. In this talk, Dr. Chopra discusses colonial resistance to the American Revolution. Dr. Chopra’s book, Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America, details arguments given by America’s original colonists, including slaves and Native Americans, against the formation of the United States. Even hundreds of years into America’s existence, these arguments are echoed and championed both within and beyond our borders. Dr. Chopra is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at SJSU.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/uss/1030/thumbnail.jp

Independence - revision and defaults

We investigate different aspects of independence here, in the context of theory revision, generalizing slightly work by Chopra, Parikh, and Rodrigues, and in the context of preferential reasoning

Interview with Nikhil Chopra

CNC interviews performance and installation artist Nikhil Chopra about Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX, on exhibit through February 2010 at New York's New Museum

The inadequacy of South Africa’s black economic empowerment policy

Vrinda Chopra analyses the detrimental effects of the BBBEE on smallholder farmers and cooperatives in South Africa

Some bryophytes newly reported for the Australian continent

Anoectangium euchloron (Schwägr.) Mitt., Campyliadelphus chrysophyllus (Brid.) R.S. Chopra and Tortula caucasica Broth. are reported as new for the Australian continent

Can SMEs address the agenda of radical economic transformation in South Africa?

Vrinda Chopra analyses whether the increasing focus on small, medium and microenterprises is a viable way of reducing inequality in South Africa

Mr. Chopra street interview

Transcript of an interview conducted during a walk through the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. The interview was conducted as part of a research project investigating the individual’s perception of the urban landscape

HIST 173: Old World and New World Encounters Course Redesign

Poster summarizing course redesign activities for HIST 173: Old World and New World Encounters.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/davinci_itcr2014/1001/thumbnail.jp

Dynamic stability of a bearingless circulation control rotor blade in hover

The aeroelastic stability of flap bending, lead-lag bending and torsion of a bearingless circulation control rotor blade in hover is investigated using a finite element formulation based on Hamilton's principle. The flexbeam, the torque tube and the outboard blade are discretized into beam elements, each with fifteen nodal degrees of freedom. Quasisteady strip theory is used to evaluate the aerodynamic forces and the airfoil characteristics are represented either in the form of simple analytical expressions or in the form of data tables. A correlation study of analytical results with the experimental data is attempted for selected bearingless blade configurations with conventional airfoil characteristics

Coerced transitions in Timor-Leste and Kosovo

Statebuilding under the aegis of international administrations has faced various hurdles and obstacles in Kosovo and Timor-Leste. One of these hurdles is related to the specific mandate of these missions, which created a specific conflict of objectives for the international presence – between democracy promotion and institution-building. The piece analyzes specifically the strategies of international and local elites in this context. After trying to prioritize institution-building while paying lip service to democratization imperatives, international officials had to readjust their strategy following contestation and resistance from local partners. Facing practical consequences of the conflict of objectives, international officials then proceeded to prioritize democracy promotion imperatives and reduced their institution-building role. The paper concludes on the implications of these experiences for the debate concerning democracy promotion and highlights the possibilities of the “participatory intervention” framework put forth by Chopra and Hohe