Photo: SI The 31 selected candidates for the Swedish Institute’s 2016 Young Connectors of the Future Programme (YCF) arrives to Sweden in the end of August and stay for three weeks. The YCF intercultural leadership programme aims to lay a foundation for dialogue and knowledge sharing among young leaders, promising professionals, social workers and entrepreneurs aged between 22 and 32 from Afghanis

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Photo: Uppsala University PhD candidate Florian Krampe at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, defends his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Building Sustainable Peace: Understanding the Linkages between Social, Political, and Ecological Processes in Post-War Countries” on Saturday 10 September 2016 at 13.00. Venue: Auditorium Minus, Museum Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3,

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Erika Bergman and Niklas Lindberg, two Masters students from the Journalism programmme at Lund University, have been awarded the SASA travel grants for the Fall 2016. The grants, covering travel expenses for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country, are provided by the South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET. The applicants must be enroll

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Center for Global South Asian Studies at University of Copenhagen invites to a research symposium and a film screening on ”Ways of Overlooking” on 8–9 September 2016. This symposium, organized by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, is an invitation to focus on the multiple ways of looking and overlooking that entangle and make everyday life. The eminent speakers include Thomas B

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Photo: British Library Endangered archives blog Every year, the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library in London is accepting applications for funding to support the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration, not the least in South Asia. The programme is being financed by Arcadia (formerly known as the Lisbet Rausi

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During the week 9-13 September 2013, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund visited universities in London, networking with researchers working on South Asia related projects. The universities included Westminster University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and SOAS at University of London.  University of WestminsterWeb page:www.westminster.ac.ukLars first went to Westminster Univers

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Photo: SOAS On 5-6 September, 2016 the SOAS South Asia Institute in London and Presidency University in Kolkata jointly organize a cross-disciplinary international conference entitled: "The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia" in London. Over the two days of the conference, over thirty contributors from India, Europe, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the US and Singapore will address questions

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On Tuesday 6 September 2016, Dr. Bal Mukunda Bhandari, Director, International Office, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, made a courtesy visit to Lund University, along with Hari Maya Sharma, Lecturer at Tribhuvan University and also a PhD Student connected to Aarhus University, Denmark. The visit was made in connection with a week-long stay in Denmark. Dr. Bhandari is in charge of the different collab

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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Konsertsalen, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundChairs: Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala & Sonalde DesaiScheduleDay 1   20 September (Session 1)   Time: 14.30 – 16.30 pmChair – Rajni Palriwala (University of Delhi)Presen

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SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Chairs: Staffan Lindberg and Neil Webster Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00Venue: NYA FESTSALEN, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundFormat: Each author is given 15 minutes for presentation of her/his paper and then follows a general discussion of the paper du

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Chairs: Britta Ohm, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland, Per Ståhlberg, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden & Vibodh Parthasarathi, Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Milia Islamia, India. VENUE: Edilrummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, Lund Three sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sep

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Chair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren and J R Jishnu VENUE: Sångsalen, AF Borgen, Sandgatan 2, Lund  Schedule panel 8. DAY 1:  20 September (Tuesday)Slot 1 Time: 14.30 – 16.30Venue: SångsalenChair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren Public Spheres and Private Lives30 min./paper including discussion. Mohammad Tareq Hasan,  University of Bergen:“Becoming Garment Workers: Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Labour Regim

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Chair: Dr Anindita Datta and Ajay Bailey VENUE: VD-rummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundTwor sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.002. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00 1. Introductory remarks by Dr Anindita Datta 2.  Lovitoli Jimo:Staging Love or Power? Materiality of Weddings in India’s North East RegionThe South East Asian market and the easy accessibility and availability of goo

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Chairs: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Anand Vaidya  TWO sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.004. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Ombudsmannarummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundABSTRACTS: The Subaltern as a Political Voyeur? The landscape of shifting political allegiances in an Indian slum – An Ethnographic AccountTripta ChandolaConsider these political predic

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Chair: Ulrika Andersson, Lund University, Anna Lindberg, Lund University, Nishi Mitra vom Berg, TISS VENUE: Tornrummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, Lund Session 1: Femininity, Concepts and NotionsSeptember 20, 2016 Time: 14.30-16.30 Paper presenters: Soibam Haripriya, Rachna Chaudhary, EM Varughese, Sheba Saeed Session 2: Contesting Practices and NegotiationsSeptember 21, 2016 Time: 1

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Chair: Clemens Cavallin, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden  VENUE: Kerstins rum, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundDay 1: 20 September 2016, 14.30-16.301. Clemens Cavallin2. Åke Sander3. Sudha SitharamanDay 2: 21 Sept., 10.00–12.004. Ruben Elsinga5. Daniela Bevilacqua6. Manoj ParameswaranDay 3: 22 September, 09.00–11.007. Ferdinando Sardell

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The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen invites all Nordic colleagues in Asian studies for a conference entitled ”NORDIC Asian studies in the 21st century - Stocktaking for the future” to be held 7-9 December 2016. (actThe reason behind the conference is, according to NIAS Director Geir Helgesen, is the paradox that even though the importance of Asia is fast growing and easy for

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According to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17 five Nordic universities appear among the top 100 in the world. Three of them are Swedish – Karolinska Institutet as No. 28 (same position as last year in spite of recent research scandal news), Uppsala University ranked as No. 93 (down by 12), and Lund University ranked as No. 96 (down by 6). The other two Nordic univ

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Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) is an intercultural leadership programme initiated by the Swedish Institute, 2016 run for the third or fourth time. The programme is directed towards young people with leadership talents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who represent different sectors of society and are visionaries in positions to make a difference. SASNET deputy dire

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On 23 September 2016, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University held its traditional graduation ceremony for the MSc students at its graduate Programme in Environmental Management and Policy, a programme attracting students from all over the World. In September 2016, Hawwa Nashfa from the Maldives graduated from the programme. She was the first I

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