Published 1 September 2018 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in Sydasien on the Swedish election. The article explores how Swedish political parties view South Asia. Read the article here

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Published 3 September 2018 The STANCE brownbag lunch seminar is held Wednesday September 12 from 12noon-1pm in the large conference room in Eden. This seminar presentation will consider the construction of Afghan statehood as a ‘frontier state’ through the development of colonial knowledge by the British in India. The presentation will delineate the intellectual origins of this knowledge, its infl

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Published 6 March 2016 SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both t

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Published 4 September 2018 In order to broaden the collaboration between Swedish religious studies scholars, SASNET Director Andreas Johansson took the initiative in the formation of a new journal on religion that seeks to popularize results and insights from religious studies. The new journal will be issued once or twice per year. The journal follows SASNET’s mission of spreading research in a fo

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Published 5 September 2018 On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pa

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Published 11 September 2018 In 2017 Maria worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at SASNET, where she continued her exploration of the concept of recognition, this time focusing on online communities of men’s rights activists in India now she rejoins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. As a SASNET affiliated researcher, Maria plans to contribute to the research environment that SASNET fosters by inte

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Published 12 September 2018 SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini has published two articles on gender issues in India. Read the paper entitled “Men are Vulnerable, Too: Analysing the Self- Presentation of Indian Men’s Rights Activists in Online Networks” here  Read the article “Stor seger för Indiens HBTQ-befolkning” in Sydasien here (in Swedish)  

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Published 12 September 2018 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 wit

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Published 14 September 2018 Within the framework of the ongoing collaboration between SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the latter hosted today an exciting round-table on the past, present and future challenges of American-Indian relations. The event, organized by SASNET affiliated researcher Henrik Chetan Aspengren, saw the participation of Swedish government officials as

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Published 14 September 2018 Kristina Myrvold joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher which will broaden SASNET:s cooperation with other universities in Sweden. Kristina Myrvold earned her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Lund University and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University with a focus on Indian religions and cultures. Her area of specialization is Sikh and Pun

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Published 17 September 2018 SASNET is proud to announce that as of 2020 it will become a research-focused center in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This development testifies to growing importance of South Asian Studies at Lund University, and the confidence the university has in SASNET’s ability to create a strong research environment and network of scholars. Until 2020, SASNET will remain as an

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Published 24 September 2018 Therese Boje Mortensen recently got accepted as an PhD student at the department of Human Rights at Lund University and now she joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. Therese Boje Mortensen is a PhD student in Human Rights Studies at Lund University. She holds a BA in South Asian Studies from Copenhagen University, and an MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from t

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Published 1 October 2018 A scientific collaboration organised by the Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University in association with Danish Ministry of External Affairs, Danish Ministry of Food and Environment, Danish Embassy in India and Indian Embassy in Denmark. A scientific workshop was organised on 6th and 7th of September the Department of Food Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark.  The purpo

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Published 2 October 2018 SASNET in collaboration with MAVA invites you to a documentary screening and lecture held by the founder of the Indian organization MAVA (Men Against Violence and Abuse). MAVA is the first men's organization in India directly opposing gender-based violence against women. Spearheaded by Mr. Harish Sadani, MAVA has supported women's rights and promoted healthy masculinity si

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Published 2 October 2018 On Tuesday October 9 at 11-13 Professor Ashok Swain i will give a talk on climate change and river disputes in South Asia at : LUMES Josephson - Room Maathai (3rd floor). Ashok Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation, and the Director of Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sw

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Published 22 October 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo was interviewed about the recent Afghan elections on Expressen Live TV. A clip from the interview can be found here (in Swedish).

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Published 22 October 2018 During the final week of September, 2018, the School of Social Work, Lund University, hosted a group of researchers from the School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India. Already established as partners in teaching and education the schools want to move ahead and collaborate in research as well. The purpose of the Indian visit was to

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Published 23 October 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the magazine Sydasien on the situation of women in Afghanistan in light of Afghanistan's recent history of war, foreign interventions, and mass exodus.  Read the article (in Swedish) here.

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Published 23 October 2018 SASNET director Andreas Johansson and SASNET researcher Admir Skodo attended the 47th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin and presented their work in meetings and panels. The conference saw the participation of over 1,000 scholars, students, and professionals in a three-day event featuring research panels, round tables, lectures, performances and film sc

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Published 25 October 2018 On Wednesday 31 October 16.00-18.00 in room R240, Gamla kirurgen 2nd floor, Sandgatan a panel on Hindu nationalism will address the particular narratives and discourses of populist politics in India in the light of neoliberal politics and globalization. The speakers will focus on how rightwing populist narratives of nativism, religion, tradition, and gender have affected

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