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Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of research applications. Maryam Nastar, (Mal)Adaptation to extreme urban heat: At what cost, to whom? The proposed re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2025-09-29

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a new round of planning grants. Examples of such applications include the EU framework programme and programme applications to Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The grant amounts to a maximum valu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/planning-grants-submission-major-research-application - 2025-09-29

The seminar took place on the 14 September in collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the region. The seminar was opened and moderated by Paul O'Shea, senior lecturer at ACE and specialist in international relations in E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-seminar-semester-how-will-russias-invasion-ukraine-affect-geopolitics-asia - 2025-09-29

Renewable energy, interviews with former Maoist women combatants, and urban development in Mumbai. SASNET’s Annual Symposium offered a full day of presentations of ongoing research, ranging from everyday transactions at New Delhi’s open markets to the issue of shrinking spaces for civil society organisations in India. The symposium took place in the Old Bishop’s House at Lund University on 30 Sept

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-symposium-2022 - 2025-09-29

Under the heading "What's happening in Sri Lanka", SASNET invited two researchers from the University of Gothenburg; Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Professor at Human Geography, and Camilla Orjuela, Professor at the School of Global Studies, to take part in a panel discussion on Sri Lanka's economic and political crisis. The panel debate, held in cooperation with the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF Lun

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/they-gave-their-perspectives-what-happening-sri-lanka - 2025-09-29

Professor Kinnvall receives the SASNET planning grant for her project idea on "Dismantling Democracy: Insecurity, Emotions and Authoritarian Populism". She describes how her project intend to develop a novel approach to the study of insecurity and emotions by highlighting the co-production of insecure lives between states; between leaders and followers; and between individuals and groups. The proj

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/catarina-kinnvall-receives-sasnets-planning-grant - 2025-09-29

Last week, Manisha Anantharaman, PhD and Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California, gave a lecture at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. The lecture was done at the beginning of Professor Anantharaman's three week long visit at Lund University. Read more about her lecture here. Read more about Manisha and her research here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/manisha-anantharaman-circular-economy - 2025-09-29

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Shruti Kapila, Professor of Indian History and Global Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. A roundtable on her recently published book, "Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age", was organised in collaboration with the Department of Political Science at Lund University. In the book, Kapila analyses the political thought o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-shruti-kapila - 2025-09-29

Earlier this month, SASNET Director Ted Svensson visited Bangladesh where he met colleagues to discuss future joint initiatives. In the meetings, Svensson also discussed the possibility of deepening and expanding on existing ties between Lund University and partner institutions in the country. One of these meetings took place at the University of Liberal Arts (ULAB) in Dhaka, where he had very pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/directors-visit-bangladesh - 2025-09-29

SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description  Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-09-29

More than 50 Nordic researchers and academics from 20 universities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland participated in the Networking Day on South Asian Studies, that SASNET organized in Lund on Monday 25 April 2016. They are all working on South Asia-related issues, and were invited to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research. The meeting addressed the question: How we ca

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-09-29

Dr. Taberez Ahmed Neyazi has co-authored an article entitled “Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India” with Anup Kumar and Holli A. Semetko. The article is published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Neyazi, who is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, and also India’s Coordi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-piece-indian-election-studies - 2025-09-29

Soumi Banjeree, 28, is currently doing a PhD at Lund University’s School of Social Work and occupied the coordinator position at SASNET during the autumn. Alongside organising and making sure panellists make their way to Lund for our seminars, she has drafted research articles and worked on her PhD thesis this past semester. However, Banerjee's position as coordinator in 2022 was not her first ass

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/soumi-banerjee-shrinking-civic-spaces-india-ngos-are-attempting-shift-away-activism - 2025-09-29

Professor Meera Chakravorty from the Dept. of Cultural Studies at Jain University, Bangalore, India, visited Sweden in the first week of April 2016. Meera Chakravorty gave two interesting lectures. The main function was at Sigtunastiftelsen (the Sigtuna Foundation) in the small town of Sigtuna, outside Stockholm. Here, she was invited to to speak on ”Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet of Joy” in connec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/bangalore-professor-toured-lund-university-and-sigtuna - 2025-09-29

Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. In the article, which was published in the journal Peacebuilding in late December 2022, Svensson analyses the Partition Museum in Amritsar as a rare opportunity to, in an agonistic manner, challenge and undo the antagonism that was ena

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-09-29

Together with Department of Political Science we are are organizing a talk with Assistant Professor Nitasha Kaul from the University of Westminister, UK on Thursday, May 19 at 3.15-5.00 pm in the large conference room (room 367) at the Political Science Department. Dr. Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Politi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetpolitical-science-seminar-neoliberal-nationalism-india - 2025-09-29

Are you a student enrolled in the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University? Then you are eligible to apply for our grant to conduct fieldworkd in South Asia. Applicants for this grant must be students within the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. Most importantly, your fieldwork must take

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students - 2025-09-29

Are you planning to write your thesis topic related to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already defended your thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The Award has been awarded since 2022 and is given to an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-our-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20222023 - 2025-09-29

In the coming four years Mine Islar, Senior lecturer at LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies), will lead projects working on sustainable development, political ecology and social justice in the intersection of climate change and biodiversity in the Himalayas.  The funding was granted for two projects by the Swedish government research council for sustainable development FORMAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/mine-islar-receives-funding-studying-climate-change-and-biodiversity-himalayas - 2025-09-29

Soumi Banerjee, Tabita Rosendal and Sunny Gurumayum were all chosen to receive this semester's SASNET Doctoral travel grant. Read more about their individual projects here. SASNET has decided to award travel grants to three doctoral students at Lund University. They will use the grant to fund their fieldwork in India and Sri Lanka during the coming months. Soumi Banerjee: "Performing legitimacy in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/three-doctoral-students-receive-sasnet-travel-grant - 2025-09-29