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SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars. After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking place June 11-12 at the Swedis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/south-asia-across-nordic-region-conference-2019 - 2026-09-01

SASA announces travel grants to Lund University students for fall semester 2016. The South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning for fieldwork in South Asia during the fall semester of 2016. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasa-announces-travel-grants-lund-university-students-fall-semester-2016 - 2026-09-01

Read Lars Eklund's report from the Media and Innovation Days After successfully organizing a first explorative workshop in the Sweden–South Asia Media Project at Lund University 19–20 October 2015, SASNET again arranged a similar explorative workshop this time in New Delhi, India during 7–9 December 2015. Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. A large crowd of Indian media researchers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/successful-media-workshop-new-delhi - 2026-09-01

Read Lars Eklund's report from the first workshop in the Sweden–South Asia Media Project SASNET is currently launching its South Asia Media Project. During 2015, the South Asia Media Project focuses on Indian media. Two explorative workshops are held, the first one at Lund University, Sweden, on 19–20 October; and the second in New Delhi, India, to be held 7–9 December. The aim is to highlight the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/media-workshop-lund-attracted-large-audience - 2026-09-01

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) organized a conference entitled “Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future of Everyday Life in South Asia” at Lund University on 20-22 September 2016. The conference attracted more than 60 researchers, many from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. South Asia has been described as in a state of flux. While it is part of the soaring ‘Asian

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/conference-modernity-2016 - 2026-09-01

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Report from the SASNET Symposium for PhD candidates and post-docs 25–27 October 2002, at Marstrand. General informationSASNET arranged a symposium 25–27 October, 2002, for Swedish PhD students and post-docs engaged in research related to South Asia, at Marstrands Varmbadhus, north of Göteborg.The main content of the symposium was to discuss the situation of PhD students in South Asian Studies or S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/symposium-phd-students-2002 - 2026-09-01

24 January in Paris, France Three years after its debut, the Noria South Asia Program (SAPROG) is pleased to invite you to its third South Asia Research Workshop, organized in collaboration with the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) and held January 24th at INALCO - 2 rue de Lille, 75007. The Workshop is intended for PhD and advanced MA students in the social scien

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/saprog-research-workshop - 2026-09-01

6-7 April 2018 in Princeton, USA. The conference on Anxiety and Authority in South Asia will be held on April 6-7, 2018 in Princeton, NJ. At a time when a politics of anxiety appears to have led to a surge in populism across the world, this conference invites applicants to probe anxiety as a public phenomenon in South Asia in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers may engage, but need n

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/princeton-south-asia-conference - 2026-09-01

In 2017, SASNET's One Month Position to prepare a research application at Lund University went to PhD scholar Shveta Soam. Shveta Soam applied for a collaborative research project entitled: "Comparative environmental and economic analysis of biomass waste utilization strategies for biofuel production in Sweden and India". For the third year after 2015 and 2016, SASNET invited researchers at Lund U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/one-month-position-ansokningsmanad/2017 - 2026-09-01

The workshop took place at the Old Bishop’s Palace in Lund on 27-28 August 2001. About 40 persons attended the workshop and gave a good start for SASNET’s global networking. Report from the WorkshopThe workshop took place at the Old Bishop’s Palace in Lund on 27-28 August 2001. About 40 persons attended the workshop and gave a good start for SASNET’s global networking.The idea behind the workshop

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/workshop-global-networking-2001 - 2026-09-01

14-15 March 2018 in Lahore, Pakistan Call for Papers for LUMS Annual Conference on Courts and Politics in Pakistan to be held on 14-15 March 2018. The conference is jointly organized by the Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) and the Shaikh Ahmed Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL). The conference will focus on the role of higher courts in dealing with cases concernin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/lums-annual-conference-courts-and-politics - 2026-09-01

7-8 June 2018 in Leiden, Netherlands In June 2018 Leiden University will host a two day conference - Modalities of Displacement - that will discuss 'displacement' in its multiple vectors and possibilities. The conference is jointly organized by the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), the Anthropology Department, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/conference-modalities-displacement-south-asia - 2026-09-01

27 May 2018 in Leiden, Netherlands Brill Academic Publishing, the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Leiden University invite submissions from scholars in area studies, social sciences, humanities, law, computer sciences, and from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to the 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia (DIAS) conference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 29 May

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/asiascape-digital-asia-dias-conference - 2026-09-01

25-26 October in New Delhi, India Ambedkar University calls for papers for conference on "Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities" to be held 25-26 October 2018 in New Delhi, India. Northeast India, located on India's periphery, is a region whose socio-cultural world exhibits more similarities with Southeast Asia region than with that of South Asia. Such perceptive characterisat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/conference-northeast-india-and-southeast-asia - 2026-09-01

Welcome to the SASNET staff page. Click on each person’s profile for contact details, research areas, publications and biographical information.   Ted Svensson Director Matilda Skoglöw Communications officer SASNET affiliated researchers Therese Boje Mortensen Coordinator

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Dr. Henrik Chetan Aspengren has a background in international studies and historical sociology, and holds since 2010 a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. His doctoral thesis concerned the formation and implementation of social policy in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Aspengren has continued to work at the intersection between mod

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/henrik-chetan-aspengren - 2026-09-01

  On 14-15 April 2018, SASNET hosted a workshop on Nationalisms in South Asia. The workshop was generously funded by the Crafoord Foundation. Professor Frank Korom (Boston University), Associate Professor Jan Magnusson (Lund University) and the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson took the lead in organizing the workshop.  The core idea of the workshop builds on a generation of scholarship arguing

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/workshop-nationalisms-south-asia-2018 - 2026-09-01

Anna Lindberg earned her Ph.D. in history from Lund University in 2001. She is the author of an interdisciplinary book of class, caste, and gender in the Indian state of Kerala from the 1930s to 2000. She has lived in India for many years and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvanathapuram. Her research combines qualitative life histories with archival sources to examin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/anna-lindberg - 2026-09-01

Open, advanced talks on nanoscience 2025 Colloquia27 November 2025Ultrafast Views on Dichalcogenide Monolayer and Heterostructure SystemsProf. Paul van Loosdrecht from University of CologneThe two-dimensionality of monolayers and heterostructures of transition-metal dichalcogenides lead to a reduced dielectric screening and consequently to relatively strongly bound excitons. Not surprisingly, thes

https://www.nano.lu.se/nanoscience-colloquia-2025 - 2026-09-01