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SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on how American education and incarceration have become entangled, entitled: "Shades of the prison-house" in the Times Literary Supplement. After Donald Trump won the United States presidential election, stock prices increased for CoreCivic and the Geo Group, two of the largest private prison companies. As unpredictable as the Trump administra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-how-american-education-and-incarceration-have-become-entangled - 2025-10-11

Full house May 3rd when more than 70 people came and listened to Jan-Inge Bengtsson, who talked about the art of afghan carpets at Lunds konsthall. The lecture was organised by SASNET in collaboration with Lunds konsthall and ABF. Jan-Inge Bengtsson, active in SAK (The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan), showed carpets for the audience and explained the history, work and meaning behind the carpets

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lunch-talk-art-afghan-carpets-attracted-many-listeners - 2025-10-11

A conflict simulation involving the current conflict and proxy war in Syria and Iraq, originally developed as a teaching resource for the MA in Middle Eastern Studies run by CMES, is being transformed into an interactive short simulation course that will eventually be available to schools and organizations in Sweden and beyond. It is envisaged that the course, currently developed by researchers in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/cmes-and-sasnet-collaboration-develop-innovative-educational-resource - 2025-10-11

SAARC International Conference on “Buddhist Cultural Trails: Journey Through Time & Space, of Merchants, Monks & Pilgrims, Reconciliation of the South Asian Region with the Exchange of Information” will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 25-27 August 2017. The Buddhist Cultural Trail conference will be the first in a series of Conferences and workshops planned on “Cultural Trails” in South Asia to unde

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-saarc-conference-buddhist-cultural-trails - 2025-10-11

Dr. Dag Erik Berg, Research Fellow from the Diversity & Inequality Research Group at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has published a new article entitled: "Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy" in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract: This article explains why caste has not b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-race-political-frontier-against-caste - 2025-10-11

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Inc. (Cambridge, USA) seeks a Buddhist Studies Research Scholar to lead the development of an online repository of Buddhist texts and cultural heritage information. The Buddhist Studies Post-Doctoral Research Scholar will provide scholarly expertise in Buddhist Studies to advance the creation of the Buddhist Universal Digital Archive (BUDA), a multi-language d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-buddhist-studies-research-scholar - 2025-10-11

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is currently seeking a C-MAP fellow specializing in Asian art, with a focus on Indian and South Asian art. Application deadline is June 1, 2017. In 2009, The Museum of Modern Art launched Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a global research initiative. The program is intended to deepen the Museum’s range of expertise; expand the criteria b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-c-map-fellow-asian-art - 2025-10-11

Apply for the SUPRA Nordic scholarship before 1 June 2017. The SUPRA Nordic scholarship is one of the most important features of NIAS' Support Programme for Asian Studies. It is designed to make NIAS’ digital library and other resources accessible to PhD candidates and MA students in the Nordic countries. The scholarship covers inexpensive travel to and from Copenhagen and accommodation in a NIAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-supra-nordic-scholarship - 2025-10-11

SASNET's One Month Position to prepare a research application at Lund University goes to PhD scholar Shveta Soam. Shveta Soam will apply for a collaborative research project entitled: "Comparative environmental and economic analysis of biomass waste utilization strategies for biofuel production in Sweden and India". For the third year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-s-one-month-position-2017-goes-shveta-soam-0 - 2025-10-11

For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grant to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, for the fieldwork for his Master thesis. The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. The thesis has now been published. During his fieldwork in the Indian capital, Harju interviewed ten young middle-class feminist women about their

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-student-published-paper-domestic-workers-delhi - 2025-10-11

On May 11, 2017 at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies organized a networking day focusing on Asia. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson attended the one-day event. The motive for the conference was to “finding everyone in Sweden focusing on Asia for a network event”. The focus of the conference was

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asia-networking-day-stockholm - 2025-10-11

Call for papers for the eighth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies - ACT 2017 will be held 18-19 August, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Last date of paper submission is 15 June 2017. ACT 2017, aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Computer Science, Control Engineering, Electrical and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-act-conference-2017 - 2025-10-11

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme. The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017. The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international resea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-eurias-fellowship-programme - 2025-10-11

Did you know that SASNET has a Twitter account ? Follow and join discussions on hashtag #SASNET. Go to the Twitter account. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-has-twitter-account - 2025-10-11

An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish).  Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region of South Asia. Sydasien

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2025-10-11

McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative study and inquiry, both maritime and littoral, of the Indian Ocean world--a macro-region running from ea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2025-10-11

Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Southeast Asia. Deadline for submission of abstract is 15 June 2017. Scholars working in all relevant disci

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2025-10-11

Call for papers for the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) Conference 2017. The Conference will be held 27-29 November in Dunedin, New Zealand. Deadline for papers submission is 30 June 2017. In line with NZASIA's key objectives, their biennial conference is multidisciplinary and aims at bringing together scholars working in the broader, open, and contested site of Asian studies. Participa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-studies - 2025-10-11

Call for papers for publication in Asia in Focus - A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers- Issue 5, Winter 2017. Deadline for paper submission is 21 August 2017. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Asia in Focus was initiated by NIAS to provide Master students and Ph.D. students affiliated to a Nordic ins

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus - 2025-10-11

Habib University invites paper and panel submissions for the Questioning South Asia Conference to be hold 22-24 November 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2017. The geopolitical significance of South Asia has been a well-known fact in policy and security studies for the last several decades. In academic circles too, the logic of South Asia has become a naturali

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-south-asia-conference-karachi-pakistan - 2025-10-11