Published 16 January 2018 2017 was a very productive and successful year for us at SASNET. Our researchers and staff published books, peer-reviewed articles and made over 40 public appearances. Our many followers on social media were continuously kept updated on research and other activities. During 2018 SASNET will continue to grow as Sweden's leading center for South Asian Studies. Research Duri

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Published 26 March 2018 Senior lecturer in Sociology Erik Hannerz will co-coordinate a Pufendorf-project about urban creativity together with Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies. It was recently announced that the 2018-2019 thematic projects at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University will include a project focused on urban creativity.Urban creat

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By Petra [dot] Francke [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Francke) - published 17 January 2023 You can now order an updated version of Lund University’s Visitor’s Guide. It is available in Swedish and English and is primarily aimed at visitors, new students and new employees. The 100-page guide is free and features many photos and maps of the University area. It presents the current organ

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Published 13 June 2017 An article on SASNET's researcher Admir Skodo, written by Elina Vidarsson, has been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish). The article is on Admir’s research, which draws on conceptual history, critical theory of race, historical sociology, and global history in order to examine how the concept of the Afghan refugee/imm

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By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 March 2020 This book analyses the tensions that emerge within strong welfare states when faced with large migration flows. It also interrogates the phenomenon of the 2015 'refugee crisis' and its foreplay and aftermath in the context of Northern Europe and challenges the notion of crisis as a feature of contemporary

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Published 18 April 2017 The conference entitled: “Challenging Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora: A Global Conference on Diaspora Studies and Policies.” will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands from 5 to 7 October 2017. Submit abstract before 30 May 2017. In this international conference the organizers would like to broaden the scope on the Indian

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By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 14 November 2023 Security at Jewish institutions in Europe has been at a consistently high level, even before the latest escalation. But in the month since the war started, 1040 cases of antisemitism have been reported in France alone. Photo: Mostphoto Interview

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Av kerstin [dot] andreasson [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Kerstin Andreasson) - publicerad 2 oktober 2017 Information om innehåll och system sammanställt av Kerstin Andreasson. Nya e-resurserTaylor & Francis Group – ny plattform för eböckerhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/En ny plattform från Taylor & Francis kommer att ersätta CRCnetbase och Taylor & Francis eBooks. Innehåll vi haft från de gamla platt

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Published 24 September 2018 Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an in

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Published 11 December 2019 A new book, edited by Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli, and Szilvia Gyimóthy, explores the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries and the global relevance of Nordic place branding practices. The edited volume unpacks the specificity of Nordic brand imaginaries, practices, and their political consequences. The contributions consolidate Nordic place branding scholarship a

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By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 February 2020 18 March 2020, @ 15:00 CMES, Lund University, Finngatan 16 Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Photo: Meriç Dağlı on Unsplash Speakers:Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadi

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Av kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - publicerad 24 september 2020 Rysslands president Vladimir Putin styr utan att rådfråga parlamentet. Foto: Timofeev/Mostphotos Ryssland terroriserar högljudda oliktänkare mer än många andra av dagens auktoritära styren, enligt historieprofessorn Klas-Göran Karlsson som ser flera orsaker till landets agerande. Nä

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Published 13 September 2019 Marie Leth-Espensen has co-authored an article on the recent gastronomic trend known as “New Carnivorism.” Marie Leth-Espensen, doctoral student at the Sociology of Law Department, has together with Mathias Elrød Madsen studied this relatively new food media trend. In an article in the journal Society & Animals, they discuss how examples such as the Danish TV show “Kill

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Published 29 August 2017 Together with Ron Eyerman and Todd Madigan, sociologist Magnus Ring has published the article “Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War” in the Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 54. More information and a link for downloading the article can be found here at the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia. Abstract:Part of a wider project on how the Vietna

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Published 26 September 2019 Tree plantations. Mostphotos. Wim Carton discusses why tree planting is not a panacea for the climate. According to him, too many studies and stakeholders fail to see that the method is inherently fraught and can take away focus from the need to drastically reduce emissions to meet our climate targets. "Tree planting is seen as an easy method that can be scaled up. But

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By lotte [dot] billing [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Billing) - published 22 December 2023 Photo: Fredrick Tendong | Unsplash Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institu

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By elmurod [dot] sobirov [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Elmurod Sobirov) - published 30 October 2023 The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) successfully hosted its highly anticipated annual conference held from October 19 to 22, 2023 at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. The event brought together esteemed scholars, researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from across the globe t

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Published 22 December 2023 Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid c

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Published 20 June 2016 On June 17, Jacob Stenberg obtained his doctoral degree in Media and Communication Studies with his thesis entitled “The Communicative State: Political Public Relations and the Rise of the Innovation Hype in Sweden”. The thesis poses the question of what happens when a political hype occurs, that is, when a political issue suddenly becomes highly topical, and political stake

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-thesis-when-policy-issues-are-prioritised-based-their-communicative-potential - 2025-04-29