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On June 5-6, the South Asia Across the Nordic Region second annual meeting was held at the University of Oslo. The two-day meeting covered discussions on how to move the network forward as well as different paper panels on South Asian topics. The workshop started with a keynote lecture by Professor Knut Jacobsen from the University of Bergen. His lecture was entitled “Ancient Yoga in the Modern Wo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-across-nordic-region-second-annual-meeting-held-oslo - 2025-09-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article (in Swedish) on migration and the Afghan state. The article is entitled "Välutbildade migranter kan bygga stark afghansk stat" and appears in the June issue of Afghanistan Nytt. Afghanistan Nytt is published four times a year and you can order it here (in Swedish).   

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-afghanistan-nytt - 2025-09-29

”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who have spent two months in Lund from mid-November 2015 as exchange students throug

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2025-09-29

During Almedalsveckan, a weeklong event on the island of Gotland where Sweden’s top political parties and organizations give talks and seminars, SASNET held two seminars on India together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Six Year Plan. You can listen to both seminars here. Panel 1: India: an emerging power – implications for Asia and beyond Speakers Constantino Xavier,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/listen-seminar-almedalen - 2025-09-29

SASNET’s South Asia Library received a generous donation in the form of a Gandhi Collection from the relatives of the late Professor Lars Lindström. Lars Lindström (1943–2018) was since 1999 a professor in pedagogy. In 2008 he became a professor at Stockholm University at the Department of Educational Science where he worked on technical, aesthetic and practical traditions of knowledge. Lars’ inte

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/second-gandhi-collection-donated-sasnet - 2025-09-29

This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy (2011), with a dissertation on American-Iranian and Anglo-Iranian rel

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2025-09-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo gave an interview on the security situation in Afghanistan in an article published by the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. Skodo calls the situation in Afghanistan "an asymmetrical war which switches between high and low intensity." He also points out that Afghanistan and its neighbors to the east and west face a water supply crisis which might have dire consequences

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-gave-interview-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-09-29

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in Sydasien on the Swedish election. The article explores how Swedish political parties view South Asia. Read the article here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-sydasien - 2025-09-29

The STANCE brownbag lunch seminar is held Wednesday September 12 from 12noon-1pm in the large conference room in Eden. This seminar presentation will consider the construction of Afghan statehood as a ‘frontier state’ through the development of colonial knowledge by the British in India. The presentation will delineate the intellectual origins of this knowledge, its influence on policy decisions,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosts-stance-seminar - 2025-09-29

SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both the duration of the prog

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/michael-palin-scholarship-announced-ma-south-asia-studies-soas - 2025-09-29

In order to broaden the collaboration between Swedish religious studies scholars, SASNET Director Andreas Johansson took the initiative in the formation of a new journal on religion that seeks to popularize results and insights from religious studies. The new journal will be issued once or twice per year. The journal follows SASNET’s mission of spreading research in a format accessible to the gene

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-launches-new-journal-religion-general-public - 2025-09-29

On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pays particular attention to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2025-09-29

In 2017 Maria worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at SASNET, where she continued her exploration of the concept of recognition, this time focusing on online communities of men’s rights activists in India now she rejoins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. As a SASNET affiliated researcher, Maria plans to contribute to the research environment that SASNET fosters by intensifying collaborations with

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-09-29

SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini has published two articles on gender issues in India. Read the paper entitled “Men are Vulnerable, Too: Analysing the Self- Presentation of Indian Men’s Rights Activists in Online Networks” here  Read the article “Stor seger för Indiens HBTQ-befolkning” in Sydasien here (in Swedish)  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-publishes-two-articles - 2025-09-29

Anna Lindberg earned her Ph.D. in history from Lund University in 2001. She is the author of an interdisciplinary book of class, caste, and gender in the Indian state of Kerala from the 1930s to 2000. She has lived in India for many years and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvanathapuram. Her research combines qualitative life histories with archival sources to examin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anna-lindberg-rejoins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-09-29

Within the framework of the ongoing collaboration between SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the latter hosted today an exciting round-table on the past, present and future challenges of American-Indian relations. The event, organized by SASNET affiliated researcher Henrik Chetan Aspengren, saw the participation of Swedish government officials as well as members of the busi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-swedish-institute-international-affairs - 2025-09-29

Kristina Myrvold joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher which will broaden SASNET:s cooperation with other universities in Sweden. Kristina Myrvold earned her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Lund University and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University with a focus on Indian religions and cultures. Her area of specialization is Sikh and Punjab Studies, focusing on Sik

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kristina-myrvold-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-09-29

SASNET is proud to announce that as of 2020 it will become a research-focused center in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This development testifies to growing importance of South Asian Studies at Lund University, and the confidence the university has in SASNET’s ability to create a strong research environment and network of scholars. Until 2020, SASNET will remain as an autonomous part of the Cente

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-will-become-research-focused-center-2020 - 2025-09-29

Therese Boje Mortensen recently got accepted as an PhD student at the department of Human Rights at Lund University and now she joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. Therese Boje Mortensen is a PhD student in Human Rights Studies at Lund University. She holds a BA in South Asian Studies from Copenhagen University, and an MA in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-09-29

A scientific collaboration organised by the Department of Food Science, Copenhagen University in association with Danish Ministry of External Affairs, Danish Ministry of Food and Environment, Danish Embassy in India and Indian Embassy in Denmark. A scientific workshop was organised on 6th and 7th of September the Department of Food Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark.  The purpose of the workshop was to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-indo-danish-workshop - 2025-09-29