Published 23 May 2019 Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming at strengthening ties with the Middle East.Click here to r

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Published 3 June 2019 Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conflict in Afghanistan. If the parties succeed in reaching agr

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Published 15 June 2019 From left, A. Johansson - SASNET, B. Plinkert - EU Ambassador to Singapore, C.R. Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, D. Daly, Ambassador - EEAS, N. Kvarnström, Swedish Ambassador, H. Chetan Aspengren, UI SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET

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Published 16 June 2019 The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). SANR is an annu

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Published 20 June 2019 Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migration, Displacement and Shifting Narratives of Belonging Sinc

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Published 6 August 2019 SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden and Europe as part of the institutes' joint South Asia I

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Published 9 September 2019 Anni-Elina Vänskä will do an internship at SASNET during the autumn semester of 2019. Anni's work tasks will include event management, web and social media content management, photography, illustration, writing reports and articles as well as conducting research. Anni-Elina began specialising in South Asia during her bachelor’s in International Studies at Leiden Universi

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Published 16 September 2019 Presenters: Maria Ullsten, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Johanna Sommansson, Johan Mikaelsson (left to right) The School of Journalism and Department of Strategic Communication in collaboration with SASNET and Reporters Without Borders Sweden host a full-day workshop about press freedom, journalism, and democracy at Mindpark, Helsingborg. South Asia is the world’s most densely

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Published 19 September 2019 The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is offering three different grants for scholars from NCI member universities to conduct research in India. As in previous years, the Nordic Centre in India, a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in the Nordic countries, will provide funding to a number of doctor-level researchers and above from NCI member univers

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Published 16 October 2019 SASNET's post-doctoral fellow Isha Dubey recently wrote an article on Kashmir's contested reality for The Conversation. In her article, Isha discusses the varying perceptions of present-day Kashmir - breathtaking tourist destination on the one hand and isolated military zone on the other - and wonders how the revocation of Kashmir's special status in India's constitution

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Published 24 October 2019 As a result of the joint symposium on Europe in the Indo-Pacific region in Singapore in June, the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) published a series of papers on South Asia. In June 2019 SASNET co-organised the joint symposium "Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center?" in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between the National Un

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Published 28 October 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Kristina Myrvold will join the Center for Theology and Religious Studies as a guest professor in 2020. Kristina Myrvold, currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University, was awarded the Hedda Andersson Professorship for a least one year, starting in 2020. Myrvold will work at the Center for Theology and Religious Stud

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Published 1 November 2019 Andreas Johansson with Chelsea Ferell from the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Andreas Johansson met with various South Asia experts and scholars to explore new possibilities for collaboration. SASNET Director Andreas Johansson visited Boston, US, at the end of September. He met with Professor Frank Korom, Deputy Director of the American Institute of Bangla

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Published 6 November 2019 Participants of the panel on security issues in Afghanistan: Julian Tucker (moderator), Jia Liu, William Maley and Kristian Berg Harpviken (left to right), Credit: UPF Lund In October, SASNET invited international Afghanistan specialists to Lund for a 2-day conference to discuss security and migration issues. On 10 and 11 October 2019 SASNET successfully hosted a conferen

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Published 6 November 2019 Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce, Government of India with SASNET affiliated researcher Henrik Chetan Aspengren (left to right) SASNET post-doc Isha Dubey attended and participated in a day-long seminar on October 23 at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm on India’s domestic economy and world trade. The event was jointly organiz

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Published 13 November 2019 During her tenure Professor Patel, who is an expert on urban sociology, will be collaborating with SASNET as an affiliated scholar. Professor Sujata Patel, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, was awarded the prestigious Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship for 2021. Professor Patel will be placed at Umeå University, but will also be an affiliated researcher at SASNE

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Published 17 November 2019 During her month-long stay at SASNET, she will continue to work on her paper on cleanliness in India. Tullia Jack received her Ph D. from the Department of Sociology, Lund University, and she is a lecturer at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity, Malmö University. Her paper on cleanliness in India is based on interviews she conducted in Mysore, Southern India,

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Published 20 November 2019 SASNET intern Anni-Elina Vänskä met with Henrik Chetan Aspengren last week to discuss the subsequent phase of the SASNET and Institute of International Affairs (UI) collaboration. Since 2018, SASNET has been collaborating with the Institute of International Affairs (UI) to develop the South Asia Initiative (SAI). The South Asia Initiative is a research platform that brid

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Published 22 November 2019 The SASNET director writes about the recent presidential elections in Sri Lanka and what the results mean for Tamils, Muslims and other minorities. Read the full article here.

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Published 17 March 2016 For the second year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to

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