Mark Jurgensmeyer and Andreas Johansson Funded by Knut and Alice Wallenbers foundation, the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson traveled to University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the possibility for future research collaborations. Andreas had several meetings at UCSB. First he had meetings with people connected with the Global Studies department at UCSB. He talked with Professo

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A two years Postdoc fellowship in colonial history is available at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Sweden. The last day of application is 1 February 2017. Context of position: The project ‘Huseby in the world’ (‘Huseby i världen’) engages with the unique collection of historical documents, the Joseph Stephens Archive, that encompass the material of a subcontractor in th

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Claremont McKenna College, California The South Asian Studies Association's (SASA) Conference 2017, will be held on 24-26 March, 2017 at Claremont McKenna College, California. Deadline for paper submission is January 24, 2017. South Asian Studies:  Never More RelevantHome to one quarter of the earth’s population and the world’s fastest growing major economy. 5,000 years of rich, extraordinary hist

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Jacco Visser, Assistant Communications Officer at SASNET, attended the Bangladesh Studies Network Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on 26-27 May 2016. Read his report from the meeting: On 26 and 27 May 2016 the Bangladesh Studies Network organized its second annual meeting at the faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at the New University of Lisbon. The meeting, a follow up on the first Bangl

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Srilata Sircar from the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Between the Highway and the Red Dirt Track: Subaltern Urbanization and Census Towns in India” on Friday 9 December 2016. The faculty opponent was Tariq Jazeel, Reader at the Dept. of Geography, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. Sircar has been supervised at the depart

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The Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) program at Stanford University invites applications for a 12-month Postdoctoral position during the 2017-2018 academic year. This position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar program, with further support provided by Stanford University. The successful applicant is expected to begin on or by October 1, 2017.Stanford University is a globa

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Wednesday 21 December 2016 was the last working day for Lars Eklund, after 16 years in SASNET service. Lars Eklund has been the deputy director for SASNET and has worked with the network since it was launched in January 2001. He was responsible for the construction and maintenance of the extensive SASNET Internet Gateway on Swedish and Scandinavian South Asian Studies, and the monthly newsletters.

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SASA, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning for fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country for up to a maximum of 8000,- SEK. Students enrolled at Lund University who plan to do fieldwork in South Asia are eligible to apply. I

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The Asian Dynamics Initiative at University of Copenhagen announces its 9th annual international ADI conference to be held 26-28 June 2017. The 2017 annual ADI conference addresses the question of ‘the Asian century’ that is yet to be fully examined. We attend to the ways in which new connected histories, flows and connections both within, and beyond, territoriality are taking shape. What kind of

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Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi (Inida) is organising an International Conference on Gender, Activism and Politics from 2nd April to 4th April 2017 in Varanasi. While both India and Sweden acknowledge the need for enhancing women participation and empowerment; their immediate concerns and priorities have been diverse. In Sweden there is growing concern about the declining participation of wom

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Photo: Berkeley The Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of qualified lecturers to teach the languages of South Asia, including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, should an opening arise. The pool will remain in place for one calendar year; screening of applications is ongoing and continues as

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Photo: NIAS Asia in Focus is an English language journal on Asia by Early Career Researchers (including MA) and the geographical focus is Asia spanning from Central Asia to Oceania and excludes Australia and New Zealand. Asia in Focus is now in its second year of publication. The journal welcomes papers written by PhD and Masters who:Are studying or recently finished their Masters or PhD in the So

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Photo from studyinnorway.no At MF two Ph.D. research fellowships are now available. The starting date for the fellowships is September 1st 2017. PhD research fellowships are temporary research engagements which shall lead to a completed degree of PhD. MF Norwegian School of Theology offers several PhD stipends, which are open-ended, including studies of religion and society in South and Southeast

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Photo from Wikipedia Call for History Internships at IIM-Ahmedabad, India The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has played a pioneering role in the field of business history in India and wishes to extend this legacy by engaging with a new generation of students and researchers. Interns are expected to assist history related research projects and also develop their own research ideas

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Photo from East-West Center An NEH Summer Institute "Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformation" will be held on June 12 to July 7, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Summer Institute, hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), is now calling for papers. This multidisciplinary NEH-supported summer institute will offer four weeks of context-rich and critical engagement with Islamic tradit

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Photo from ITU IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its newly established Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consideration begins immediately and open until filled. The Department aims to not only complement the IT focus of the university but also develop a strong faculty with dynamic teaching skil

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons The South Asian Studies Council (SASC) at the MacMillan Center invites applications for post-doctoral position at Yale University for AY 2017-2018. Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to modern and contemporary South Asia, in the humanities or social sciences. All applicants should have in-depth knowledge of at least one SA-related language a

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Photo from Wikipedia University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for tenure before the expiry of

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Photo from Sydasien.se SASNET's new researcher Maria Tonini talks about her research in "Sydasien". Read the article (in Swedish). Read Maria Tonini's dissertation "The Ambiguities of Recognition Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India" as pdf. Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region of South Asia. Sydasien has existed

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Photo from www.hf.uio.no On Thursday 15 February 2017, 16.15-18.00, Professor Sten Widmalm will hold a seminar entitled: "Political Tolerance in India, Pakistan and Uganda" at University of Oslo. Venue: Blindern, PA Munchs hus seminar room 9 in Oslo. What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? Sten Widmalm presents the main findings from his book Pol

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