Published 11 July 2016 On Monday 20 June 2016, Assistant Professor Khalid Wasim from the School of Rural Development at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India, met with SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund. Wasim had come to Europe for a month long stay at University of Münster in Germany, but took a chance also to visit Lund University and SASNET with an aim to search for researc

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Published 11 July 2016 In early June 2016, Professor J B Prajapati, Head of the Dairy Microbiology Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India, again visited Lund University and its Food for Health Science Centre. Prajapati has had a long collaboration with Prof. emeritus Baboo Nair, and during this visit discussions were held with Prof. Richard Öste and

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Published 11 July 2016 One of the stated aims of the European Association for South Asian Studies is to encourage and support young scholars working in the field of South Asian Studies. In pursuit of this aim, the Association is offering awards linked to its biennial conference. Awards are to be made for the most outstanding papers by currently registered research students presenting at the confer

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Published 11 July 2016 The Norwegian Network for Asian Studies' coming NORASIA conference, the seventh, will focus on 'Maritime Asia' and takes place in Oslo 12-13 January 2017. Abstracts and panel suggestionsare now invited. In keeping with its tradition, the NORASIA conference aspires to be a meeting and networking point for scholars in the Nordic region working on Asia more broadly. Therefore t

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Published 10 October 2016 The 45th Annual Madison Conference on South Asia is held 20–23 October 2016. This year's theme is DECAY. The conference, sponsored by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year has attracted over 750 scholars and specialists on South Asia, coming from countries all over the world and much of the United States. This year the Joseph W. Elder

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Published 11 July 2016 Uppsala University announces a 4-year PhD position in Indology starting 1 January 2017 or earlier, during which the PhD student will receive a salary as an employee of the department. Doctoral students are expected to engage in full-time study and research, and contribute to and participate in the department’s activities. Teaching and/or administrative tasks may be involved

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Published 11 July 2016 The 2016 World Water Week in Stockholm is held 28 August - 2 September 2016. World Water Week in Stockholm is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues.It is organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). This year, the theme is "Water for Sustainable Growth". It is also the 20th jubilee of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. In 2015, over 3,000 individ

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Published 11 July 2016 University of Copenhagen Emilija Zabiliute from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Living with Others: Subjectivity, Relatedness and Health among Urban Poor in Delhi' on 29 June 2016.  ‘Living with Others’ is an ethnographic study of everyday lives and health-seeking practices among urban poor liv

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Published 29 July 2016 The 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies – ECSAS 2016 was successfully held at the University of Warsaw, Poland from 27 to 30 July 2016. The biannual conference, organised by the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) was hosted by the Faculty of Oriental Studies at University of Warsaw. The chief convener was Prof. Danuta Stasik.  A total number of

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Published 6 August 2016 KIIT University in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha State, India, announces KIIT University Scholarships Program for academically inclined yet financially challenged international students for pursing higher professional education at KIIT with full scholarships. Date of final admission is 20 August 2016. Date of final admission is 20 August 2016. Full details. 

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Published 18 August 2016 NoFSA is a network linking Nordic resources on South Asia within research, culture, business, public administration, NGOs, the media, etc. The idea is to help people across sectors draw on each other´s experience and expertise, primarily though its mailinglist.NoFSA is an independent organisation hosted by the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the Uni

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Published 18 August 2016 NIAS is now offering two guest-researcher positions in late 2016 for the duration of 1 to 3 months. NIAS academic aim is to promote inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural and thus comparative research. Its focal point is the role and impact of Asia in a globalizing world. Of special interest is the growing importance that Asia has for the Nordic region, including Asia and the

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Published 18 August 2016 Sten Widmalm Professor Sten Widmalm published a book entitled: "Political Tolerance in the Global South – Images from India, Pakistan and Uganda". The book deals with the question “What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike?” It is based on a study that combines large scale survey data with in-depth interviews in each nationa

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Published 18 August 2016 The Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Plant Biomass - Bioproducts, Biocatalysts, and Biorefinery (SUTB4) will be held in Coimbatore, India on November 17-18th 2016. The Conference is organised by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in association with Indian Biomass Association (IBA), Phycospectrum Environmental  Research Centre (PERC), L

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Published 19 August 2016 Photo: From http://asianprimates.wixsite.com/ The 5th Asian Primate Symposium will be held on the 18th until the 20th of October 2016, at University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to exchange knowledge concerning primates, introduce newly developed methodologies of study and their applications, and construct

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Published 25 August 2016 Dea Busk Larsen, Masters student in Social Anthropology at Lund University; and Nashfa Hawwa, Masters student at the at the Environmental Management and Policy programme, also Lund University, have been selected by SASNET for a scholarship to be carried out in South Asia with the assistance of CREST, Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation, in Kozhikode

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Published 25 August 2016 Photo: SI The 31 selected candidates for the Swedish Institute’s 2016 Young Connectors of the Future Programme (YCF) arrives to Sweden in the end of August and stay for three weeks. The YCF intercultural leadership programme aims to lay a foundation for dialogue and knowledge sharing among young leaders, promising professionals, social workers and entrepreneurs aged betwee

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Published 25 August 2016 Photo: Uppsala University PhD candidate Florian Krampe at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, defends his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Building Sustainable Peace: Understanding the Linkages between Social, Political, and Ecological Processes in Post-War Countries” on Saturday 10 September 2016 at 13.00. Venue: Auditorium Minus, Museum Gust

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Published 29 August 2016 Erika Bergman and Niklas Lindberg, two Masters students from the Journalism programmme at Lund University, have been awarded the SASA travel grants for the Fall 2016. The grants, covering travel expenses for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country, are provided by the South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET. The

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Published 30 August 2016 Center for Global South Asian Studies at University of Copenhagen invites to a research symposium and a film screening on ”Ways of Overlooking” on 8–9 September 2016. This symposium, organized by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, is an invitation to focus on the multiple ways of looking and overlooking that entangle and make everyday life. The eminent

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