By andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas Johansson) - published 22 November 2021 The SASNET director, Andreas Johansson, published an article on Islam in South Asia in the book Islam -En religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei. Read more about the book here (In Swedish).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-published-article-islam-south-asia - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 25 January 2022 Ted Svensson is, since January 2022, taking over the position as director of SASNET. Former director Andreas Johansson will continue to be affiliated with SASNET, mainly through a research project on the theme religion and politics in Sri Lanka. In 2000, the Swedish development agency (SI

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/organisational-changes-and-new-director - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 17 February 2022 A Nation and its Fault Lines, workshop February 25, 2022 SASNET will host a one-day workshop – A Nation and its Fault Lines – on February 25, 2022. Jointly conceptualised and organised by SASNET-affiliated researchers Amrita Ghosh and Isha Dubey, the workshop constitutes the culminating

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-nation-and-its-fault-lines-organised-isha-dubey-and-amrita-ghosh-0 - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 21 February 2022 During 2021 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through webi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2021-published - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 14 March 2022 Photo: Pixabay During the year 2022, SASNET organizes a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. The digital lecture series is one of the projects fu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-lectures-indian-religions - 2025-01-13

Published 21 March 2022 Liminal Urban Dwelling captures Mumbai’s most significant resettlement program and exemplifies the racialized housing forms for the poor population in the urban zones that are deemed unfit for human habitation. The exhibition comprises ten photographs, as seen and suggested by the community, that captures photographic representation of everyday encounters of environment, sp

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/exhibition-lund-liminal-urban-dwelling - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 3 May 2022 From this year onwards, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) will award an annual Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/best-south-asia-thesis-award-20212022 - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 5 May 2022 Photo: David Peterson In a new article, published in The Conversation, SASNET affiliated researcher Andreas Johansson writes about the recent protests in Sri Lanka. -The article tries to analyse the possible implications of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka with a focus on the recent ethnic ten

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-about-protests-sri-lanka - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 10 November 2022 SASNET invites Lund University PhD students to apply for two travel grants. The deadline is the 31st of January 2023. Each grant amounts to a maximum value of 25 000 SEK (direct costs) and shall be used to cover travel expenses such as flight tickets, accommodation, and visa fees. Eligibility crit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-travel-grants-lund-university-phd-students - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 15 June 2022 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 researc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2025-01-13

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 22 June 2022 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 fram

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/planning-grants-submission-major-research-application - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 20 September 2022 Karl Gustafsson, Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Catarina Kinnvall at the seminar. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-seminar-semester-how-will-russias-invasion-ukraine-affect-geopolitics-asia - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 7 October 2022 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 orga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-symposium-2022 - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 Professor Ruwanpura presenting at the panel debate. Photo. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/they-gave-their-perspectives-what-happening-sri-lanka - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 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 insec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/catarina-kinnvall-receives-sasnets-planning-grant - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 10 November 2022 Photo: Annika Persson 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/manisha-anantharaman-circular-economy - 2025-01-13

Published 29 November 2022 Shruti Kapila presenting at a roundtable in Lund. Photo. 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 Politi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-shruti-kapila - 2025-01-13

By Sandra Jakobsson - published 30 November 2022 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 Li

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/directors-visit-bangladesh - 2025-01-13

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 21 December 2022 A Hindu temple. Photo. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-01-13

Published 2 May 2016 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 th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-01-13