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Published 10 August 2016 Chair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren and J R Jishnu VENUE: Sångsalen, AF Borgen, Sandgatan 2, Lund Schedule panel 8. DAY 1: 20 September (Tuesday)Slot 1 Time: 14.30 – 16.30Venue: SångsalenChair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren Public Spheres and Private Lives30 min./paper including discussion. Mohammad Tareq Hasan, University of Bergen:“Becoming Garment Workers: Social Reproduction i
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Published 12 August 2016 Chair: Dr Anindita Datta and Ajay Bailey VENUE: VD-rummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundTwor sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.002. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00 1. Introductory remarks by Dr Anindita Datta 2. Lovitoli Jimo:Staging Love or Power? Materiality of Weddings in India’s North East RegionThe South East Asian market and the easy accessibilit
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-no-4-staging-marriage-and-modernity-among-middle-classes-south-asia - 2025-03-07
Published 12 August 2016 Chairs: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Anand Vaidya TWO sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.004. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Ombudsmannarummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundABSTRACTS: The Subaltern as a Political Voyeur? The landscape of shifting political allegiances in an Indian slum – An Ethnographic AccountTripta ChandolaConsid
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-2-mapping-subaltern-modernities-neoliberal-india - 2025-03-07
Published 12 August 2016 Chair: Ulrika Andersson, Lund University, Anna Lindberg, Lund University, Nishi Mitra vom Berg, TISS VENUE: Tornrummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, Lund Session 1: Femininity, Concepts and NotionsSeptember 20, 2016 Time: 14.30-16.30 Paper presenters: Soibam Haripriya, Rachna Chaudhary, EM Varughese, Sheba Saeed Session 2: Contesting Practices and NegotiationsS
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-7-women-and-gender-south-asian-modernity-vulnerabilities-and-violence - 2025-03-07
Published 12 August 2016 Chair: Clemens Cavallin, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden VENUE: Kerstins rum, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundDay 1: 20 September 2016, 14.30-16.301. Clemens Cavallin2. Åke Sander3. Sudha SitharamanDay 2: 21 Sept., 10.00–12.004. Ruben Elsinga5. Daniela Bevilacqua6. Manoj ParameswaranDay 3: 22 September, 09.00–1
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-1-religion-and-modernity-south-asia - 2025-03-07
Published 20 September 2016 The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen invites all Nordic colleagues in Asian studies for a conference entitled ”NORDIC Asian studies in the 21st century - Stocktaking for the future” to be held 7-9 December 2016. (actThe reason behind the conference is, according to NIAS Director Geir Helgesen, is the paradox that even though the importance of Asia
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-conference-nordic-asian-studies-21st-century - 2025-03-07
Published 2 October 2016 According to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17 five Nordic universities appear among the top 100 in the world. Three of them are Swedish – Karolinska Institutet as No. 28 (same position as last year in spite of recent research scandal news), Uppsala University ranked as No. 93 (down by 12), and Lund University ranked as No. 96 (down by 6).
Published 26 September 2016 Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) is an intercultural leadership programme initiated by the Swedish Institute, 2016 run for the third or fourth time. The programme is directed towards young people with leadership talents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who represent different sectors of society and are visionaries in positions to make a di
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-swedish-institute-leadership-programme-young-southasians - 2025-03-07
Published 6 October 2016 On 23 September 2016, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University held its traditional graduation ceremony for the MSc students at its graduate Programme in Environmental Management and Policy, a programme attracting students from all over the World. In September 2016, Hawwa Nashfa from the Maldives graduated from the progr
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/hawwa-nashfa-first-maldivian-student-graduate-iiiee - 2025-03-07
Published 1 October 2016 The Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University organized an Open Seminar entitled ”Reinventing Social Democracy - Implications for the Global South and Scandinavia” on Wednesday 5 October 2016, 18.00-20.00. Venue: Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2, Stockholm. Among the speakers were Niraja G. Jayal (photo) from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/stockholm-seminar-social-democracy-and-its-implications-global-south - 2025-03-07
Published 1 October 2016 On September 23, 2016, SASNET and School of Journalism at Lund University jointly organized a workshop day entitled: “The Digital Transition of Media” in the LUX building in Lund. The workshop got very good reviews. Watch all sessions from the workshopThe workshop day consisted of five interesting presentations. First out were Vibodh Parthasarathi, Associate Professor in C
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-2016-sasnet-media-workshop-lund-university - 2025-03-07
Published 3 October 2016 On 19-21 April 2017, the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) will hold its annual conference in Nottingham. The conference is hosted by Nottingham University’s Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre. The keynote speaker is Urvashi Butalia, sponsored by IAPS. Panel and paper submissions are n
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/basas-annual-conference-2017-nottingham - 2025-03-07
Published 1 October 2016 Indian tabla player Abishek Mishra from Varanasi, curently on Europe tour performs in Malmö on Sunday 16 October 2016, at 12.00. Mishra is one of India's most promising tabla player and despite his young age played with several of the most prominent musicians in Indian classical music such as Shahid Parvez, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and brothers Rajan and Sajan Mishra. In Septemb
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tea-tabla-indian-brunch-concert-malmo - 2025-03-07
Published 10 October 2016 The Fourth Conference on Bengal Related Studies for Students and Young Scholars will be held in Halle (Saale), Germany, 28-30 October 2016. It is being organised by the South Asia Seminar of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary venue for students and young scholars who focus on the Bengal regions in th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fourth-conference-bengal-related-studies-young-scholars-halle - 2025-03-07
Published 10 October 2016 The India-China Corridor Spring School will be held in Guwahati, Assam, India, on 25-26 March 2017. The theme for the spring school will be ”Modern Empires, Flows, Environments and Livelihoods”, and it is jointly organised by Prof. Gunnel Cederlöf, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the Linnaeus University, Sweden (lead faculty member); Prof
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/swedish-support-guwahati-spring-school-india-china-corridor - 2025-03-07
Published 12 October 2016 In collaboration with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) has announced a joint call for collaborative research projects in the field of ageing and health. Ewa Ställdal, Director General of Forte, along with Indian Ambassador Banashri Bose Harrison sign the MoU on 1 July 2015. Behind th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/forte-announces-research-project-grants-field-ageing-and-health - 2025-03-07
Published 13 October 2016 Structural Transformation and Agrarian Change in India, by Prof. Göran Djurfeldt, and PhD candidate Srilata Sircar, both at Lund University. Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 2016. The landlord and his emaciated labourer are symbolic of Indian agriculture. However, this relationship has now changed as large landowners have fallen from their superior position. Th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-researchers-analyses-agrarian-change-india - 2025-03-07
Published 13 October 2016 The Muslim South Asia Research Forum (MUSA) at SOAS, University of London, UK, arranges a Workshop on Negotiating Technologies, 14-15 October 2016. The MUSA Workshop is organized in collaboration with CEIAS, Paris & the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, and will be held at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.One session is devoted to South Asian Muslims & th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/cambridge-musa-conference-negotiating-technologies - 2025-03-07
Published 11 October 2016 Dr. Sujit Kumar Paul, Head, Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension, Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Visva-Bharati University in Shantiiketan, West Bengal, India, has been conferred Mother Teresa Sadbhawana Award with Medal for his outstanding achievement in individual contribution for National Economic and Social Development. The award was presented to him in a
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/mother-teresa-sadbhawana-award-shantiniketan-researcher - 2025-03-07
Published 12 October 2016 The Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is looking to fill the position of a Researcher (PhD or postdoctoral) working in the 'Media and Public Spheres' Research Cluster. This position should be filled by 15 January 2017. The position is offered within the framework of the DFG Priority Program "Proper Times of the Aesthetic. Time and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/researcher-field-media-and-public-spheres-wanted-gottingen - 2025-03-07
