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I år är det 25 år sedan som Lunds universitet etablerade Campus Helsingborg. Det har som andra största campusort på universitetet blivit en plats som präglas av tvärvetenskap, nytänkande och goda samarbeten. Under året har vi valt att uppmärksamma vårt jubileum med en rad aktiviteter och evenemang. Vi har bland annat bjudit in allmänhet till öppna föreläsningar om pågående forskning och haft en st

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/vi-ser-fram-emot-de-kommande-25-aren-med-tillforsikt - 2025-12-29

Lunds universitet har klättrat till förstaplatsen i världen i QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026. Rankningen omfattar cirka 2 000 lärosäten från omkring 100 länder och mäter hur universiteten bidrar till en hållbar framtid – genom forskning, utbildning och sina sätt att verka som organisationer. – Ödmjuk, stolt och inspirerad att fortsätta framåt – så sammanfattar jag känslan över a

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitet-rankas-som-bast-i-varlden-inom-hallbarhet - 2025-12-29

Hösten 2026 lanserar Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Lunds universitet ett nytt magisterprogram i totalförsvar och civil beredskap på Campus Helsingborg. Utbildningen möter den ökande efterfrågan på kompetens inom totalförsvarsområdet och ger studenterna tvärvetenskaplig kunskap om hur samhället kan stå emot och hantera kriser – från säkerhetspolitiska utmaningar till klimatförändringar. Vår

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/nytt-program-i-totalforsvar-och-civil-beredskap-startar-pa-campus-helsingborg - 2025-12-29

2026 års upplaga av MässING, högskoleingenjörernas årliga arbetsmarknadsmässa, närmar sig med stormsteg. Varje år samlar mässan studenter och företag på Campus Helsingborg för att skapa värdefulla kontakter och öppna dörrar till framtida karriärmöjligheter. För både studenter och företag är detta ett unikt tillfälle att mötas. Bakom kulisserna står en engagerad projektgrupp som lagt ner otaliga ti

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/massing-2026-natverkande-karriar-och-framtid - 2025-12-29

Campus Helsingborgs International Student Career Programme, som lanserades våren 2025, består av en serie evenemang som är särskilt utformade för att ge internationella studenter verktyg för att navigera på den svenska arbetsmarknaden, söka jobb och praktikplatser, besöka lokala företag och bygga värdefulla professionella nätverk. Mer än 350 internationella studenter deltog i aktiviteterna under å

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/arets-karriarprogram-internationella-studenter-avslutades-med-framtidsspaning - 2025-12-29

Fyra olika projekt och satsningar på Campus Helsingborg får nu strategiska medel från Lunds universitet. Två utav dem är relaterade till Centrum för beredskap och resiliens – LUPREP och fokuserar på ämnen som underrättelse och säkerhet samt civilsamhällets roll vid kriser. De andra två handlar om regional kompetensförsörjning för att stärka Skånes konkurrenskraft och om etisk reflektion inom LSS-v

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/fyra-nya-satsningar-far-strategiska-medel - 2025-12-29

När jubileumsåret för Campus Helsingborg nu går mot sitt slut, kan vi blicka tillbaka på ett år fyllt av engagemang, gemenskap och minnesvärda möten. Året har visat på både tradition och pionjärskap, en blandning som också utmärker Campus Helsingborg. Genom samarbeten mellan forskare, lärare, studenter, personal har vi tillsammans skapat ett händelserikt år. Under året genomfördes tolv aktiviteter

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/tack-jubileumsaret - 2025-12-29

In the end of April, SASNET co-organised a symposium addressing the importance of sustainable water management in India, Bangladesh, and Sweden. The symposium was organised in collaboration with the non-governmental organisation Svalorna India/Bangladesh and Peder Hjorth, Associate Professor at the Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University.  The symposium took place at Eden Lecture

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/symposium-sustainable-water-management - 2025-12-29

Last Wednesday, Niladri Chatterjee and Eleonor Marcussen, held a joint lecture in line with the SASNET Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, titled: “Shaken and Stirred: Politics of Disasters and Aid in South Asia”. Ted Svensson, Director of SASNET, opened the seminar and introduced the two researchers: Eleonor Marcussen, a researcher in History in the Department of Cultural Sciences and member of Linnaeus Uni

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-about-politicisation-natural-disasters-south-asia - 2025-12-29

SASNET has been rewarded 100 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation with which to expand the Sweden–South Asia Media Project that began in 2015. The grant will be used to arrange conferences and workshops dealing with online harassment in India and Sweden. Threats and harassment over the internet are increasing worldwide. Social media accounts are being hijacked, private pictures distributed without

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-receives-100-000-sek-crafoordska-foundation - 2025-12-29

At the end of May, SASNET organised a two-day workshop at Lund University on Hindu Majoritarianism, Caste Politics, and Minoritisation. The workshop brought together scholars from a range of disciplines, including social anthropology, history, psychology, and political science. The workshop took place at the Old Bishop’s House at Lund University and was divided into four sessions: Majoritarian Nat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-12-29

In May, SASNET organised its first annual lecture. It was given by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, King’s College London. In case you missed the lecture, the recording is now available on our website.  On 4 May, SASNET arranged its inaugural annual lecture in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) at Lund University. Professor Jaffrelot – a political scientist who is specialis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/christophe-jaffrelot-hindu-vigilantism-and-making-deeper-state-india - 2025-12-29

During the annual Almedalen Week in Visby, SASNET co-organised a panel debate, together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The panel debate "What Does India Want in Global Politics and How Does it Affect Sweden?" took place on 28 June at the Almedalen Week in Visby. The event was co-organised with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and was held as part of Lu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-almedalen-week-what-does-india-want-global-politics-and-how-does-it-affect-sweden - 2025-12-29

Linn Jönsson and Maria Lundström are the recipients of this year's SASNET travel grant for journalism students at Lund University. The students plan to travel together to work on their individual projects in Mumbai this September. Linn Jönsson and Maria Lundström are in their final year of journalism studies at Lund University and plan to travel to Mumbai for their final projects. Jönsson aims to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/journalist-students-linn-jonsson-and-maria-lundstrom-receive-sasnet-travel-grant - 2025-12-29

The Institute of Area Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, organizes an international conference on waste in Asia on 9–11 June 2016. The organizers invite proposals on the broad theme of ‘Waste in Asia’ from the humanities and social sciences regarding both the present days and the past. Possible topics may include, but need not to be limited to, waste collection and recycling, food wast

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/leiden-conference-waste-asia - 2025-12-29

Priscyll Anctil, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, recently published a blog post about the human rights violations, especially against women, in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power two years ago. The blog post is available below. August 15, 2023, marked two years of the Taliban takeover. And with it, everyday attacks against “all manifestations of humanity, free

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/blog-post-priscyll-anctil-taliban-takeover-two-years - 2025-12-29

Sahana Subramanian recently completed her master’s degree at Lund University. Her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”, studies Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and, for this, she received this year’s SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award.  Sahana Subramanian, recently admitted as a doctoral student at LUCSUS, was introduced to the concept of ‘urban em

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sahana-subramanian-urban-india-facing-twin-crisis - 2025-12-29

The summer school on Gender, Disasters and Climate Risk took place last week at Lund University, gathering 15 professionals and doctoral students from eight different countries for a weeklong visit at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, LTH.  Misse Wester, professor and course leader for the summer school and was most pleased with this year’s course, saying it was a good mix betwe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/misse-wester-we-are-grateful-participants-contribution-and-hope-stay-connected - 2025-12-29

In cooperation with Doc Lounge Malmö and Lund University's School of Journalism, SASNET hosted a well-attended film screening of the Indian documentary While We Watched. Visiting from India was Director Vinay Shukla. The Indian documentary While We Watched (2022) tells the story of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar, navigating a world of truth and desinformation. Described as a turbulent newsroom

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/film-screening-indian-documentary-while-we-watched - 2025-12-29

Scholars from Sweden and abroad attended the 2023 SASNET Symposium in Lund. The participants shared ongoing research on South Asia, on topics such as sustainability, civil society, and community-making. On 29 September, SASNET hosted the annual SASNET Symposium in Lund at the venue Gamla Biskopshuset.  The day included four main sessions, each highlighting a key topic of relevance to developments

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/annual-sasnet-symposium-held-lund - 2025-12-29