Photo: https://www.ubc.ca/about/ The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in the history of the art, architecture and visual culture of South Asia. Applicants' research interests may include any historical period and any geog

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Photo: https://www.utexas.edu/about/overview The Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track position in Hindi at the rank of Assistant Professor, anticipated to start in Fall 2018. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain a strong research profile while teaching a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-hindi - 2025-08-23

Photo: https://www.bucknell.edu The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for the Josephine Hildreth Detmer & Zareen Taj Mirza Professorship in Islamic Studies, to begin in August 2018. The position can be filled at any rank from tenure-track assistant professor to full professor. The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell serves majors and minors pursuin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-professor-islamic-studies - 2025-08-23

Photo from https://itu.edu.pk IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its interdisciplinary Centre for History and Politics and its think tank, the Centre for Governance and Policy. The centres complement the IT focus of the university through research cutting across various academic disciplines, evidence based

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-it-university-punjab - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mehrangarh Trust, Jodhpur, Rajasthan The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Ashoka University, India invites you to submit organized panels and roundtable proposals (no individual paper proposals accepted) to be presented at the fifth AAS-in-ASIA Conference to be held between the 5th and 8th of July, 2018 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. The Program Committee for the AA

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On Wednesday 4 October 2017, 10.00-10.20 Andindita Datta held a lecture entitled: "Misogyny, media and resistances to genderscapes of online hate: Of Bharat Mata and Bharat ki Mata" in room M:226 at the Department of gender studies (Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M). The lecture is part of the Global Gender Matters Workshop organised by the Department of gender studies. Research on the theme of women’s ac

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-misogyny-media-and-resistances-genderscapes-online-hate - 2025-08-23

Dr. Anindita Datta arrived in Lund as a guest researcher at Lund University for ten days (1-11 October). SASNET provided her with an office during her time here. Anindita Datta is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests are in the area of feminist geography, conceptual traditions in geography and social geography

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/dr-anindita-datta-guest-researcher-lund-university - 2025-08-23

Dr. Khaleda Gani Dutt and Dr. Liz Adams Lyngbäck were successful in the Planning Grant application submitted to the Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University earlier in June this year. Both Dr. Khaleda Gani Dutt and Dr. Liz Adams Lyngbäck are working as a University Lecturers at the Department of Special Education at Stockholm University.The main purpose of the Forum for Asian Studies grants

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-planning-grant-application - 2025-08-23

Members of NCI The Nordic Centre in India announces a spring internship position for the NCI India Liaison Office for 2018. The deadline for receiving applications is the 31st of October, 2017. The purpose is to provide the intern with exposure to hands on experience on the working in an organisation that works in the area of international higher educational collaboration specifically to work in t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/internship-opportunity-nordic-centre-india - 2025-08-23

Religious Studies at Karlstad University needs to recruit a senior lecturer with expertise in Islam, and preferably also in areas such as globalisation, migration, cultural meetings and research experience in empirical quantitative and/or qualitative methods. This is a full-time, non-fixed term position with starting date by agreement.Religious Studies at Karlstad University has an emphasis on int

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-senior-lecturer-religious-studies - 2025-08-23

Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute invites applications for a full-time, twelve-month teaching position in Buddhist Studies starting on August 15, 2018. This position may be extended depending on funding and department need.The Assistant Professor will teach graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Buddhist Studies. A PhD in the field of Buddhist St

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-buddhist-studies-0 - 2025-08-23

Call for papers for the panel on "Producing and consuming photography in South Asia" at the 25th ECSAS conference. ECSAS 2018 is taking place at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, from 24 to 27 July 2018. This panel seeks contributions pertaining to the history of the commercial practices and popular uses of photography in South Asia between 1840 and 1980. Papers

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Call for paper for dissertation workshop on ethnography of connections to be held 20th November 2017 at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world. As scholarly attention increasingly shifts to themes of commodification, s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-dissertation-workshop-ethnography-connections - 2025-08-23

SASNET and Sydasien form an exciting collaboration that will help disseminate news and research about South Asia to a broader audience. The magazine Sydasien is an important channel for spreading news and analyses about South Asia in the Swedish language. Sydasien was founded in 1977. First appearing in print, Sydasien transitioned into an online-only format in 2011 (www.sydasien.se).  Through a n

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SASNET researcher Admir Skodo wrote an article for the Times Literary Supplement entitled "Permanent crisis of legitimacy". Afghanistan is an ethnicity with a state. That is the bottom line of Niamatullah Ibrahimi’s book, which maps the political relationships between the Pashtun-dominated nation and the Hazaras, Afghanistan’s third largest ethnic group (after the Tajiks), and a deeply marginalize

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The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce its second Annual Conference on South Asia, to be held from Thursday 26 April to Friday 27 April 2018 at Dublin City University, Ireland. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and practitioners involved wit

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The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges and the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American studies, to begin July 1, 2018. The Department is seeking a scholar who approaches history from an interdisciplinary perspective and who has res

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The History Department at Denison University invites applications for a one-year visiting position in the history of the Middle East or South Asia to begin in Fall 2018. Teaching responsibilities in a 3/3 load include a two-semester introductory survey sequence in the Middle East or South Asia and upper level seminars in the candidate’s areas of expertise. Ability to teach courses in the pre-moder

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-visiting-assistant-professor-history-0 - 2025-08-23

On Monday 30 October 13.15, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler held a lecture entitled: "Jewish identity and literature in contemporary India" at LUX. The lecture was organised by SASNET and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. The focus of the lecture were three Indo-Jewish authors, two in English and one in Hindi: Nissim Ezechiel, Esther David and Sheila Rohekar. While E

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The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University seeks to appoint a full-time, tenured faculty member in a field in the Asian Humanities beginning in Fall, 2018. The Department welcomes candidates who work across multiple genres and media, from classical to contemporary periods, and in any Asian languages. They are particularly interested in a scholar and teacher who combi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-associate-or-full-professor-asian-humanities - 2025-08-23