Published 15 February 2018 SASNET director Andreas Johansson has published an article in openDemocracy entitled "Sri Lanka local elections: the return of Rajapaksa". In the article he analyzes the latest elections in Sri Lanka Read the articel here  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-elections-sri-lanka - 2025-04-29

Published 16 February 2018 On Monday 23 April 15.00-17-00 there will be a panel discussion on state building in Afghanistan in a global context at Edens hörsal, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! With its strategic location Afghanistan has been a focus of global politics for many centuries. Despite its fragile nation-sta

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-state-building-afghanistan-global-context - 2025-04-29

Published 23 February 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in The Conversation on the recent Pashtun protests in Pakistan. The article is entitled "Pakistan's 'Pashtun Spring' pits human rights demands against War on Terror politics". Read the articel here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-recent-pashtun-protests-pakistan - 2025-04-29

Published 23 February 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published a brief in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper Series entitled "The impact of forced migration on Afghanistan's domestic politics and foreign relations". The brief was first presented as a working paper at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read the brief here 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/brief-impact-forced-migration-afghanistans-domestic-politics-and-foreign-relations - 2025-04-29

Published 23 February 2018 On international women's day March 8, 17.00-20.00, there will be a film Screening of the movie India’s Daughter at Stora Algatan 4 International Desk at Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! India's Daughter narrates the story of an ordinary girl with an extremely cruel life experience which broke the silence around rape culture

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/film-screening-indias-daughter - 2025-04-29

Published 5 March 2016 The complete SASNET Work Report 2015 (Verksamhetsberättelse) was published on 29 February 2016. It contains an extensive summary of the work being done by SASNET at Lund University in 2015, in Swedish. An impressive amount of activities have been carried out, including a major research conference in May, and two South Asia Media Project workshops in the fall.An external eval

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-work-report-2015-published - 2025-04-29

Published 23 February 2018 On Wednesday 25 April 13.00-15-00 SASNET is hosting a seminar on the Afghan Shia: Politics, Piety, and Diaspora in LUX Building, B417. Welcome! Robert D. Crews The talk by Robert D. Crews, Professor of History at Stanford University, examines the revolutionary politics of Shi’i communities in Afghanistan and the diaspora from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the e

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-afghan-shia-politics-piety-and-diaspora - 2025-04-29

Published 26 February 2018 On Friday 16, 09.00-10.30, there will be a lecture on Indian independent documentary at Gamla Kirurgen, floor 3 at Lund University. The event is a collaboration with School of Journalism and the event is open to everyone. The documentary participant is largely a site of anxiety, viewed through the discourse of documentary image ethics and its construction of moral obliga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-indian-independent-documentary - 2025-04-29

Published 6 March 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in openDemocracy which discusses the evidence for a populist myth about immigration courts and public opinion. Read the articel here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-populist-myth-about-immigration-courts-and-public-opinion - 2025-04-29

Published 13 March 2018 On Tuesday 3 April 16.00-17.30 SASNET is pleased to invite everyone for the launch of the new book Miraklet Indien och dess baksida. The book is edited by former SASNET employees Lars Eklund and Staffan Lindberg at Eden 131, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund University. The event is open to the public. Indian delights will be served! With contributions from, among others, Kenneth Bo Ni

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-miraklet-indien-och-dess-baksida - 2025-04-29

Published 21 March 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on Afghan asylum seekers in Sweden in the journal Nidaba: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies.  The aricle can be accessed here:

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-nidaba - 2025-04-29

Published 21 March 2018 The Nordic Centre in India announces two new grants for its member universities. NCI will be supporting collaborative academic activities between member universities and Indian higher educational institutions through Academic Activity Grants that will be announced twice a year NCI will also support travel grants to India. As Lund University is a member of NCI employees at o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-nci-grants - 2025-04-29

Published 29 March 2018 Andreas Johansson, researcher and head of SASNET, was interviewed by Utrikes Magasinet about the role of religion in the Maldives, including what this development means for Maldivian democracy. Read the interview here (in Swedish)

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/religion-maldives - 2025-04-29

Published 3 April 2018 On March 22 the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, took part of Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) program elections committee. Andreas helped select candidates from Sri Lanka and Pakistan for the 2018 program, which will kick off in September. The program YCF is a part of the Swedish institute (SI).“YCF aims to support young leaders in South Asia by giving them the to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-involved-young-connectors-future-program - 2025-04-29

Published 3 April 2018 On March 27 the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, visited Karlstad University (KAU) to discuss possibilities for future collaboration. SASNET is keen on working together with KAU since it has, since 1995, been collaborating with various institutions in India. Andreas meet with Katarina Plank and Kristian Niemi (picture) and dissucssed KAU:sa study center at Varanasi and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/visit-karlstad-university - 2025-04-29

Published 3 April 2018 On Monday 9 April 15.00-17.00 there will be a lecture on the forms of colonial authority along the external frontier of British India, l in Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5H. Welcome. Benjamin D. Hopkins is a specialist in modern South Asian history, in particular that of Afghanistan, as well as British imperialism. His research focuses on the role of the colonial state in creat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-colonial-authority-and-british-india - 2025-04-29

Published 5 April 2018 The magazine Sydasien (www.sydasien.se) 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. sydasien_2_2017_korrutskrift_7.pdf  Through a new collaboration between Sydasien and SASNET the magazine once again appears i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-issue-sydasien-now-available - 2025-04-29

Published 16 April 2018 On Tuesday 15 May 11.00-12.00 there will be a seminar on the role of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal area in villa Norlind, Biskopsgatan 5. Welcome. The talk is held by Dr. Naheed S. Goraya, and she is currently a Visiting Post Doc at V-Dem/Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. She is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for South Asian S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-role-pakistan-federally-administered-tribal-areas - 2025-04-29

Published 16 April 2018 On 14-15 April SASNET hosted a workshop on Nationalisms in South Asia. The workshop was generously funded by the Crafoord Foundation. Professor Frank Korom (Boston University), Associate Professor Jan Magnusson (Lund University) and the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson took the lead in organizing the workshop.  The core idea of the workshop builds on a generation of sch

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosted-workshop-nationalisms-south-asia - 2025-04-29

Published 5 March 2016 The 2016 general call for applications to the Swedish Research Council(Vetenskapsrådet) for Project Research Grants for most subject areas. Humanities & Social Sciences; Medicine & Health; Artistic Research; and Culture & Cutural Heritage Research – closes on Tuesday 15 March. For research in Economics and Natural Sciences, the deadline is Tuesday 5 April.Of even more intere

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/time-apply-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-04-29