Published 17 January 2017 Photo from studyinnorway.no At MF two Ph.D. research fellowships are now available. The starting date for the fellowships is September 1st 2017. PhD research fellowships are temporary research engagements which shall lead to a completed degree of PhD. MF Norwegian School of Theology offers several PhD stipends, which are open-ended, including studies of religion and socie

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo from Wikipedia Call for History Internships at IIM-Ahmedabad, India The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has played a pioneering role in the field of business history in India and wishes to extend this legacy by engaging with a new generation of students and researchers. Interns are expected to assist history related research projects and also develop

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo from East-West Center An NEH Summer Institute "Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformation" will be held on June 12 to July 7, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Summer Institute, hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), is now calling for papers. This multidisciplinary NEH-supported summer institute will offer four weeks of context-rich and critical enga

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Published 19 January 2017 Photo from ITU IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its newly established Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consideration begins immediately and open until filled. The Department aims to not only complement the IT focus of the university but also develop a strong faculty

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Published 24 January 2017 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The South Asian Studies Council (SASC) at the MacMillan Center invites applications for post-doctoral position at Yale University for AY 2017-2018. Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to modern and contemporary South Asia, in the humanities or social sciences. All applicants should have in-depth knowledge of at least

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Published 24 January 2017 Photo from Wikipedia University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for t

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Published 26 January 2017 Photo from Sydasien.se SASNET's new researcher Maria Tonini talks about her research in "Sydasien". Read the article (in Swedish). Read Maria Tonini's dissertation "The Ambiguities of Recognition Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India" as pdf. Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region of South

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Published 27 January 2017 Photo from www.hf.uio.no On Thursday 15 February 2017, 16.15-18.00, Professor Sten Widmalm will hold a seminar entitled: "Political Tolerance in India, Pakistan and Uganda" at University of Oslo. Venue: Blindern, PA Munchs hus seminar room 9 in Oslo. What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? Sten Widmalm presents the main

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Published 20 January 2017 Photo: Paul Rollier On Friday 10 February 2017, 10.15-12.00 Adjunct Professor Paul Rollier will hold a seminar entitled: "Religious Belonging in Pakistan: Ritual, language, and the production of ‘minorities’" at University of Oslo. The seminar is organised by the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies. Venue: Eilert Sundts hus, aud. 6 in Oslo. Sectarian attacks, Islam

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Published 13 January 2017 Photo from www.hf.uio.no On Wednesday 1 February 2017, 16.15-18.00 Professor Caleb Simmons will hold a lecture entitled: “Rascally Infidels:” Political-religious transgression in international correspondences of Ṭipū Sultān" at University of Oslo. Venue: P.A. Munchs hus: Seminar room 6 in Oslo. In his talk, he will discuss “religious transgression” in the political theolo

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Published 15 January 2017 South and Southeast Asian Association for Culture and Religion (SSEASR) is organizing the 7th SSEASR Conference "ASEAN Region by the end of 21st Century: A Dialogue with Past or Present?"at the Vietnam Buddhist University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 9-12 July, 2017. Modern South and Southeast Asia is an idea as much as it is a place in time and space. It is an idea th

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Published 11 January 2017 A workshop entitled "Towards Global Social Theory? Possibilities and Tensions" will be held at Linnaus University in New Delhi, India on 18-20 April 2017. This workshop is addressing current debates regarding the dominance of Northern thought in social theory. The role of modern European Empire and European modernity, as well as the structure of current knowledge systems

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Published 24 January 2017 On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 10.00 an international multidisciplinary conference entitled ”South Asia: Past, Present and Future" will be held at the Department of History, Presidency University Kolkata in India. Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium. Home to one quarter of the world’s population, one of the most ancient civilizations, with religious, cultural and linguistic divers

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Published 30 January 2017 The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) with the theme: “Consuming Asia” on September 22-23, 2017 in Geneva, USA. NYCAS is a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies.The NYCAS 2017 program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on all asp

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Published 29 January 2017 The University of Lahore together with a support from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) announces that the International Conference on Social Sciences in Service of Humanity 2017 is going to be held 12-13 April 2017 at the Sargodha Campus (The University of Lahore) in Sargodha, Pakistan. International Conferences promote international dissemination of knowledg

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Published 10 January 2017 The III CHAM International Conference will be held in Lisbon 12-15 July 2017, and its main theme is "Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environment". The call for papers and posters is now open. The call will close on 1st February at midnight (in Portugal). This third edition is part of CHAM's programme within the UNESCO Chair "The Oceans Cultural Heritage", won by C

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Published 30 January 2017 Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is holding an International Conference on Changing World Order: India and China in Contemporary Times 14-15 April 2017. Conference Venue: JNU, New Delhi, India. The aim of the two day Conference is to relook at the current relations betwe

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Published 30 January 2017 A Three Day PhD and Early Career Academic Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Contexts will be hold in New Delhi on 24th -26th May 2017. Venue: Willow, Habitat World, at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The workshop aims to encapsulate some of the most recent cutting-edge discussions emerging in the fields of international development studies and social po

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Published 1 February 2017 On Friday 10 February 2017, 8.00-9.30 SASNET together with Media Evolution invites you to a morning with conversation about how professional roles and workplace is reshaping and how we can find ways to work toward a kinder Internet. Venue: Media Evolution City, Stora Varvsgatan 6A, 211 19 Malmö. What can one of the world's most connected countries - Sweden - learn from on

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Published 6 February 2017 On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarised world where-in stereotypes, broad generalizations and

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