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This lecture series is presented by Johan Nilsson (Post-Doctoral Researcher, History of Religions, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University). Read more about his research here.   Part 1: The International Theosophical Movement About the lecture Theosophy was one of many esoteric movements that emerged around the world during the end of the late 19th Century and today it is genera

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/lund-lecture-series-indian-religions/theosophy-and-buddhism-sweden - 2025-12-15

This lecture series is presented by Professor Tanuja Kothiyal (Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi). Read more about her research here.   Part 1: An Introduction to Folk Traditions in South Asia - Typologies and Mythemes About the lecture Known for its more systematic and textual-rich religions, the South-Asian region also hosts a variety of folk religions that occupy liminal spaces between formal r

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/lund-lecture-series-indian-religions/folk-religions-south-asia - 2025-12-15

This lecture series is presented by Professor Knut A. Jacobsen (University of Bergen). Read more about his research here.   Part 1: Historical Yoga, Modern Yoga, and the Current Global Yoga Phenomenon About the lecture In this video by Professor Knut A. Jacobsen, we focus on how historical research in yoga and the global phenomenon on yoga has gained much important in the recent years. Modern yoga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/lund-lecture-series-indian-religions/modern-yoga-global-yoga-phenomenon-and-samkhyayogin-hariharananda-aran - 2025-12-15

The advisory board for SASNET is between 2023-05-11 - 2024-12-31 the following: Anna Meeuwisse Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor at the School of Social Work. Misse Wester  Professor at the Department of Risk Management and Societal Security. Morten Koch Andersen  Deputy Research Director and Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitar

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/about-sasnet/advisory-board - 2025-12-15

Here are the previous recipients of the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award. Awardee 2022/2023: Sahana Subramanian Expanding freedoms and improving commons through labour: A study of Kerala’s Ay… Master Thesis in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/thesisaward/best-south-asia-thesis-award-recipients - 2025-12-15

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This lecture series is presented by Professor Christine Moliner (Jindal School of International Affairs). Read more about her research here.  Part 1: Introduction to Sikhism About the lectureIn this video, Dr. Moliner briefly introduces the religion of Sikhism and goes on to talk about what she believes is a relatively under-researched field–the study of religion in Social Movements. To study this

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/guru-nanak-was-here-us-role-religion-indian-farmers-protest - 2025-12-15

Deadline passed. New call and application deadline will be announced in early 2026 The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University master students to apply for a travel grant. The grant amounts to a maximum value of 25 000 SEK (direct costs) and shall be used to cover travel expenses such as flight tickets, accommodation, and visa fees.Eligibility criteriaYou are a master 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/south-asia-travel-grant-master-students - 2025-12-15

16 December 2025 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Fatima Ali Shah receives the Best South Asia Thesis Award for her excellent and impressive thesis From Ashes to Access: A Dual-Framework Formative Evaluation of the Super Seeder Subsidy in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The thesis addresses a highly topical and important subject matter, and it holds great relevance for scholarly debates as well as ongoing and futur

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/calendar/cancelled-best-south-asia-thesis-award-winner-fatima-ali-shah-presents-her-work - 2025-12-15

27 January 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Co-organised by SASNET and the PhD community at the Department of Political Science. Tushar Joshi is a PhD student at The University of Melbourne and will be staying at the Department of Political Science, Lund University during the period December to March as a holder of a "GloHub Doctoral Student Mobility Grant". Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Behav

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/calendar/sasnet-seminar-tushar-joshi-strategic-culture-and-foreign-policy-behaviour-bjp-and-rss-influence - 2025-12-15

SASNET has fostered research on South Asia for many years and through various collaborations, projects and funding opportunities. Read about SASNET's former projects, researchers and programmes below.  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research - 2025-12-15

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Law from September until October 2016. SASNET asked Jishnu five questions after his leave: Who are you?I am a Research Scholar from the Department of Law in the University of Kerala, India. What did you do at Lund University?At SASNET, Lund University, I was provided with the opportunity to participate and co-chair a panel with Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Linnaeu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-researchers/jishnu-jayasree-raveendranathan - 2025-12-15

Apply for this years travel grants no later than 31 January 2017. SASA, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning to do 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 Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/sasa-travel-grant - 2025-12-15

SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India.These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and stay there for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant - 2025-12-15

Dea Busk Larsen, Masters student in Social Anthropology at Lund University; and Nashfa Hawwa, Masters student at the Environmental Management and Policy programme, also Lund University, were selected by SASNET for a scholarship to be carried out in South Asia with the assistance of CREST, Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation, in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. Dea Busk LarsenDea c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/fall-2016 - 2025-12-15

Michaela Nummenpää from the Welfare Policies and Management program at Lund University completed her two-month long fieldwork at the Kerala-based Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Fall 2013. Michaela NummenpääDuring her stay at CREST from November 2013 to January 2014, Michaela Nummenpää studied marginalised groups and how they have experienced access to higher

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/fall-2013 - 2025-12-15

With active support from SASNET, Emelie Rohne and Lizzie Sagrelius, third year students at the Bachelor of Science Programme in Development Studies (BIDS) at Lund University, were accepted to do field work for their BA thesis at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kozhikode, Kerala, India during the Spring semester 2012. Lizzie SagreliusLizzie Sagrelius worke

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/spring-2012 - 2025-12-15

In May 2009, Petra Bergquist – a student at the Masters Program in Gender Studies, Lund University – was selected for Internship at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kozhikode, India. Petra BergquistPetra left Sweden on Friday 29 May 2009 and spend approximately three months at CREST, working with a group of 40 graduates from Dalit/Adivasi and other minorit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/travel-grants/crest-travel-grant/spring-2009 - 2025-12-15