Published 11 May 2017 Apply for the SUPRA Nordic scholarship before 1 June 2017. The SUPRA Nordic scholarship is one of the most important features of NIAS' Support Programme for Asian Studies. It is designed to make NIAS’ digital library and other resources accessible to PhD candidates and MA students in the Nordic countries. The scholarship covers inexpensive travel to and from Copenhagen and ac

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-supra-nordic-scholarship - 2025-04-25

Published 11 May 2017 SASNET's One Month Position to prepare a research application at Lund University goes to PhD scholar Shveta Soam. Shveta Soam will apply for a collaborative research project entitled: "Comparative environmental and economic analysis of biomass waste utilization strategies for biofuel production in Sweden and India". For the third year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-s-one-month-position-2017-goes-shveta-soam-0 - 2025-04-25

Published 13 May 2017 For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grant to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, for the fieldwork for his Master thesis. The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. The thesis has now been published. During his fieldwork in the Indian capital, Harju interviewed ten young middle-class femi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-student-published-paper-domestic-workers-delhi - 2025-04-25

Published 15 May 2017 On May 11, 2017 at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies organized a networking day focusing on Asia. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson attended the one-day event. The motive for the conference was to “finding everyone in Sweden focusing on Asia for a network event”. The focus

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asia-networking-day-stockholm - 2025-04-25

Published 17 May 2017 Call for papers for the eighth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies - ACT 2017 will be held 18-19 August, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Last date of paper submission is 15 June 2017. ACT 2017, aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Computer Science, Control Engin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-act-conference-2017 - 2025-04-25

Published 17 May 2017 The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme. The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017. The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-eurias-fellowship-programme - 2025-04-25

Published 17 May 2017 Did you know that SASNET has a Twitter account ? Follow and join discussions on hashtag #SASNET. Go to the Twitter account. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-has-twitter-account - 2025-04-25

Published 29 May 2017 An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish).  Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2025-04-25

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 12 May 2017 McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2025-04-25

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 17 May 2017 Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Sout

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2025-04-25

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 19 May 2017 Call for papers for the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) Conference 2017. The Conference will be held 27-29 November in Dunedin, New Zealand. Deadline for papers submission is 30 June 2017. In line with NZASIA's key objectives, their biennial conference is multidisciplinary and aims at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-studies - 2025-04-25

Published 20 May 2017 Call for papers for publication in Asia in Focus - A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers- Issue 5, Winter 2017. Deadline for paper submission is 21 August 2017. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Asia in Focus was initiated by NIAS to provide Master students and Ph.D. students affi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus - 2025-04-25

Published 21 May 2017 Habib University invites paper and panel submissions for the Questioning South Asia Conference to be hold 22-24 November 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2017. The geopolitical significance of South Asia has been a well-known fact in policy and security studies for the last several decades. In academic circles too, the logic of South Asia

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-south-asia-conference-karachi-pakistan - 2025-04-25

Published 14 May 2017 On Tuesday 9 May 2017, Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg held a lecture entitled: "Child marriages in India: Human Rights Violations that go unchecked" at LUX B152. The lecture was jointly organized by Human Rights Studies and SASNET at Lund University. The lecture was recorded and has been published at SASNET's Youtube Channel. Abstract: Child marriages even when they have cult

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-human-rights-violations-go-unchecked - 2025-04-25

Published 30 May 2017 The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations based in London (AKU-ISMC) is inviting experienced scholars to join the Institute as a visiting scholar within the 2017-2018 academic year. Deadline to submit application is 15 June 2017. The Institute is looking to host two categories of visiting scholars. Between September and December 2017 the Instit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-visiting-scholars-aga-khan-university - 2025-04-25

Published 2 June 2017 The 5th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Indian Interdisciplinary Studies AEEII will be held 29 November - 1 December 2017, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Deadline to submit paper is 20 June 2017. Acts of injustice in or with the Indian subcontinent have been committed by previous generations in institutional, social, political or familiar contex

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-aeeii-conference-barcelona - 2025-04-25

Published 8 June 2017 The University of Sydney invites applications from qualified individuals for appointment to two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in nineteenth and/or twentieth century international history, as part of Professor Glenda Sluga’s ARC Laureate Research Program in International History. Applications should be submitted before 21 June 2017. The Postdoctoral Fellows will be working

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-post-doctoral-fellow-university-sydney - 2025-04-25

Published 13 June 2017 An article on SASNET's researcher Admir Skodo, written by Elina Vidarsson, has been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish). The article is on Admir’s research, which draws on conceptual history, critical theory of race, historical sociology, and global history in order to examine how the concept of the Afghan refugee/imm

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-concept-afghan-refugee - 2025-04-25

Published 20 June 2017 The Himalayan Studies Conference V will be held 1-4 September 2017 at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. The conference is organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Intiative at CU Boulder. Participation is restricted to members of the ANHS. Keynote speakers for HSC V will be the author Manjushree Thapa, whose

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/himalayan-studies-conference-colorado - 2025-04-25

Published 20 June 2017 Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute invites applications for a part-time, nine-month, teaching position in Sanskrit starting on August 15, 2017 at its campus in Boudhanath, Nepal. The instructor will teach two undergraduate courses in Sanskrit each semester: Sanskrit I and III in Fall, and Sanskrit II and IV in Spring. Total teaching

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-sanskrit-instructor-kathmandu-university - 2025-04-25