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Maliha Shir Mohammad joined the SASNET team this week and will be doing an internship with us throughout the autumn semester. Maliha recently completed her master's degree in Gender Studies at Lund University. Previously, she obtained degrees in Asian Studies and International Relations from Lund University and Malmö University. Her academic work focuses on women's rights in Afghanistan and variou

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-new-intern - 2025-11-17

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) organises a day of networking at Lund University. All those working on South Asia-related issues are welcome to attend. The purpose of this day is to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research concerning South Asia among Nordic universities. We will address the question: How we can strengthen a South Asian perspective across all

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-networking-day - 2025-11-17

SASNET is hosting an online conference on "Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia" on 9-10 December 2020. Context:The current debates around the politics of memory and memorialization reinforce that the act of remembrance and forgetting in the present does not exist in isolation from the past that informs them. This mnemohistorical continuity becomes even more apparent in the current cont

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-2020-memory-politics-south-asia - 2025-11-17

Andreas Johansson spoke to Dr. Shantanu Sharma, Lund University about recent COVID-19 developments in India. Dr. Shantanu Sharma is a researcher in internal medicine - epidemiology at Lund University. After he had already spoken to us in April he recently gave an update about latest developments in India with regards to the pandemic, testing strategies and government measures to help people in the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-podcast-episode-corona-updates-india - 2025-11-17

Andreas Mattsson, Affiliated Research at SASNET, arranged a webinar for students at the School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen), and Department of Strategic Communication (ISK) at Lund University on October 16. In this webinar, scholars, and practitioners addressed different issues related to the media landscape and media advocacy from an international comparative perspective. Students from

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/webinar-media-landscapes-and-media-advocacy - 2025-11-17

On 27 October, SASNET will host an online conversation on student lives and activism opposing caste in India with speakers Deepa Dhanraj and Natha Wahlang. Prior to the event, participants are encouraged to watch Deepa Dhanraj's 2018 movie "We have not come here to die" about the suicide of Dalit, Phd research scholar, and activist Rohith Vemula and the subsequent student movement in India. After

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-movie-screening-and-conversation-student-activism-india - 2025-11-17

SASNET published a report by Muhammed Niyas Ashraf, Doctoral Fellow at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. Abstract:This paper offers a social history of the relationship between Islamic reform and malayāḷi Muslim in the context of colonial Kerala. Kerala Muslims are one of the largest Muslim communities in India, and a majority are the de- scendants o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-publication-islamic-reformism - 2025-11-17

SASNET's and UI's South Asia Initiative publishes first episode of three-part podcast series on climate and environment issues in South Asia. The South Asia Initiative (SAI), which is co-hosted by SASNET and Utrikespolitiska Institutet, has published the first episode of its podcast series "Climate Lens South Asia" on climate and environment issues in the South Asia region.In the episode "How can

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-podcast-climate-lense-south-asia - 2025-11-17

Dr V.Sivasubramanian, Director of Phycospectrum Environmental Research Centre (PERC) and Professor N Thajuddin, Head, Department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli holds a SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with Deptertment of Technology and Society, at Lund University, is entitled ”Microalgal Biotec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-microalgal-biotechnology-research-india - 2025-11-17

Guest researcher Giulia Garofalo Geymonat is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University. Her recent publication Vendere e comprare sesso. Piacere, lavoro, prevaricazione (Selling and Buying Sex. Pleasure, Work, Abuse of Power), Il Mulino, Bologna 2014, reflects her knowledge of the differences among European countries as well as her experience e

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/commercial-sex-sexual-assistance-and-people-disabilities - 2025-11-17

Nu finns äntligen vänboken till Diana Mulinari tillgänglig! Den innehåller en mängd spännande feministiska och postkoloniala texter av författare som Maud Eduards, Chandra Mohanty, Paulina de los Reyes, Tiina Rosenberg och många fler. Kritiska gemenskaper - att skriva postkolonial vetenskap är titeln på den vänbok som tillägnats professor Diana Mulinari i samband med hennes 60-årsdag. Boken släppt

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/vanbok-till-professor-diana-mulinari - 2025-11-17

Philomena Essed är professor i kritiska ras-, genus- och ledarskapsstudier vid Antioch University, USA. Hon disputerade vid universitetet i Amsterdam och är känd för att ha introducerat begrepp som "vardagsrasism" och "könad rasism" (gendered racism) i Nederländerna. Hon är också känd för att ha lanserat begreppet klonade kulturer (Cloning cultures) som ett sätt att fånga processer av likhetsskapa

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/professor-philomena-essed-forelaser-i-lund - 2025-11-17

Att bryta innanförskapet är en ansats att kritiskt granska och expandera vad jämställdhet och mångfald är och skulle kunna vara inom akademin. Forskare inom genusvetenskap, sociologi, socialt arbete och rättsociologi undersöker här kopplingar mellan kön, etnicitet, sexualitet, klass och makt, gränser och villkor för närvaro samt hur olika grupper av andställda erfar, namnger och tolkar sina positi

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/stort-intresse-att-bryta-innanforskapet - 2025-11-17

Nela Porobic Isakovic is a former Gender Based Violence Programme Officer for UN Population Fund and has worked extensively with women activists in peace building processes. She is currently working with Syrian and Bosnian activists as project coordinator for WILPS: Women organizing for change in Syria and Bosnia. On the 15th of September at the Department of Gender Studies Nela held an enthusiast

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/open-lecture-women-war-and-peacebuilding - 2025-11-17

Öresundsnätverket för könshistorisk forskning samlar genushistoriskt intresserade forskare från olika discipliner med syfte att utveckla och stärka genushistoriens ställning på båda sidor Öresund. Sedan 2010 har Öresundsnätverket för könshistorisk forskning träffats en gång per termin, i Köpenhamn, Lund eller Malmö. Mötet äger alltid rum en fredageftermiddag, i Sverige på höstterminerna och i Danm

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/oresundsnatverket-konshistorisk-forskning - 2025-11-17

On the 4th of November The Global Gender Matters Network organized a well visited and highly appreciated Workshop on Gendered Migration: Global Flows of Visions and Agency About the Global Gender Matters NetworkIn a rapidly changing global world, gender matters cross borders and render new meanings.The Global Gender Matters Network examines the transnational ways in which gender is configured soci

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/global-gender-matters-workshop - 2025-11-17

Workshop in Copehagen organized by N-SEA – the Nordic Southeast Asia Network and sponsered by NOS-HS. 16 April 2015 The first of two workshops on "Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications" organized by N-SEA – the Nordic Southeast Asia Network and sponsered by NOS-HS.Demographic changes are imbued with, and impact on, gender and generational relations, urban-

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/n-sea-workshop-gender-and-generational-transformations-southeast-asia - 2025-11-17

The Malayali historian, social critic, and feminist Devika J. from Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, India, will spend one month at our department. The Department of Gender Studies and SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) will host during one month Dr. Jayakumari Devika from Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Devika did her Master o

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/guest-reseacher-dr-jayakumari-devika - 2025-11-17

The Center for Women’s and Gender Research/SKOK, Bergen University visits the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University on May 20th. Professor Professor Christine Jacobsen (Head of SKOK) and Professor Randi Gressgård are visiting our Department today and attending to the Mini- Symposium entitled: "Gender Studies Research and Education - Collaboration". The Centre for Women’s and Gender Researc

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/mini-symposium-gender-studies-research-and-education-collaboration - 2025-11-17

Doktoranden ska ingå i ett FORTE-finanasierat projekt (dnr 2014-2364), ”Ett värdigt liv: Hur hanterade danska och svenska beslutsfattare sexualitet och funktionshinder i slutet av 1900-talet?” HÄR kan du söka tjänsten. Arbetsuppgifter:Doktoranden ska ingå i ett FORTE-finanasierat projekt (dnr 2014-2364), ”Ett värdigt liv: Hur hanterade danska och svenska beslutsfattare sexualitet och funktionshind

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/doktorand-pa-genusvetenskapliga-institutionen - 2025-11-17