Published 16 January 2025 We are thrilled to announce the Department's Spring 2025 Seminar Series, featuring an exciting lineup of speakers from across the globe. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 13:15 in the Blue Hall in the Ecology Building. After the talks, there will be time for fika and mingling.Here is the complete schedule for spring 2025:All links, except the one to BLAM, lea

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/spring-2025-seminar-series-announced - 2025-04-25

Published 13 January 2025 We have launched a new web page about how to take precautions when you work with stinging insects. On the new web page, you will find instructions for managers/team leaders as well as for people working directly with the insects. Among other things, you learn what is a must in the emergency medicine kit, how to write a risk assessment and what to do if you get stung. Chec

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-resource-available-guidelines-working-stinging-insects - 2025-04-25

Published 11 February 2025 A new webpage is now available with comprehensive information about the relocation of Biology Buildings B, C, and D to the Ecology Building. On the page, you will find important details about timelines, workflows, and contact persons, as well as updates on the project's progress.The relocation is part of the department’s densification project, aimed at creating a more in

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-webpage-relocation-ecology-building - 2025-04-25

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 14 February 2025 Three projects have been awarded funding under the Sustainability Fund's call for proposals to test solutions to sustainability challenges in the organization, Sustainable Proposal Testbed. The focus is on mental health for students and reducing climate emissions from academic travel. Emma Kritzberg

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/biologists-onboard-prize-winning-project-sustainable-workplace - 2025-04-25

Published 24 February 2025 We have started to exchange locks to rooms we no longer rent in Biology building C and D.

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/lock-changes-biology-building - 2025-04-25

By Henrik [dot] Wendel [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Henrik Wendel) - published 3 March 2025 LU Bygg and Akademiska Hus have signed an agreement to remodelling the upcoming P2 lab in the Ecology House. They have also agreed on the conditions for rooms for freezers in the basement and future undergraduate education facilities in the E-D1 corridor.

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/now-agreement-new-p2-lab-has-been-signed - 2025-04-25

By inger [dot] ekstrom [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Inger Ekström) - published 20 March 2025 A new webpage is now available for anyone planning to organise a scientific conference. It provides all the resources you need to begin planning, along with practical tools to help streamline the process. Please note that the conference must be approved before you can start organising.Visit the new confere

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-page-organising-conferences - 2025-04-25

By Joakim [dot] Nilsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Joakim Nilsson) - published 25 March 2025 Summer is approaching and with it vacations at the department as well as the faculty and Statens servicecenter which affects our recruitment opportunities. Do ​​you need to advertise over the summer?Send a requirements profile to HR by 1 June to get the ad out.Employees starting this fall? Documents for

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/plan-recruitment-summer - 2025-04-25

Published 27 March 2025 The Head of the Department Jessica Abbott has decided to establish a new Research Council to strengthen the department's strategic research work. The council serves as an advisory body to the Head of Department and includes five faculty members with broad representation from across the department’s research areas. Deputy Head of Department Fredric Carlsson chairs the counci

https://www.biology.lu.se/internal/article/new-research-council-department - 2025-04-25

Published 26 November 2020 Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I Am Sheikh Mujib depicts the twentieth century freedom

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2025-04-25

Published 22 April 2016 Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M, Lund. This is an ethnographic stu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetgender-studies-seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2025-04-25

Published 21 December 2020 The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper research in area studies in times when we cannot be mobi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2025-04-25

Published 23 April 2016 Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at University of Copenhagen on 27 April 2016, 9.00-11.00. The

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2025-04-25

Published 29 December 2020 Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below). For many years, her research has been focusing on int

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2025-04-25

Published 4 February 2021 The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a wide range of activities carried out to bolster knowledg

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2025-04-25

Published 5 February 2021 In the third episode of SAI's "Climate Lens" podcast, Julia Wiraeus talks to three experts on South Asia's water crisis and the way forward. South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, will see their homes disappear with rising water levels

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2025-04-25

Published 10 February 2021 Researcher Orwa Ajjoub explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, resea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2025-04-25

Published 17 February 2021 The report was written by former SASNET intern Maliha Shir Mohammad and is a summary of her MA thesis. In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated Afghan women and investigates their perspectives on ed

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2025-04-25

Published 23 April 2016 SASNET and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF) jointly organized a seminar on “Tibet as an (Inter)National Problem” – focusing on China’s and India’s respective roles in Tibet, on Wednesday 20 April 2016, at 19.00. The speaker was Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor in International Relations and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2025-04-25

Published 22 February 2021 Dr. Amrita Ghosh, currently visiting researcher at SASNET, released her report "Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves" as part of a preliminary pilot project focusing on questions of identity and space across the complex Bengal borderlands. The full report is now available on our website. Abstract: This is a preliminary pil

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2025-04-25