Published 24 August 2017 The Department of History at Salisbury University is accepting applications for the position of Assistant Professor of History (South Asian History specialization).  This is a full-time tenure-track position. Teaching load is 3-3 to include World Civilizations, upper-division undergraduate, and graduate courses for our M.A. in History program. Salisbury University faculty

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Published 24 August 2017 The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, has been authorized to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Tamil Studies at the level of Assistant Professor. The expected start date is July 1, 2018. The Department seeks candidates with native or near-native ability in written and spoken Tamil and who can ideally work with both c

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Published 29 August 2017 Between 2004 and 2005 Lund University published the Swedish journal Chakra: tidskrift för indiska religioner. The journal published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on religions on the Indian subcontinent. The founding editors of Chakra were Associate Professor Kristina Myrvold and Dr. Katarina Plank. The four issues of the journal are now republished on our website

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Published 31 August 2017 On Thursday 14 September at 19.00 director Sarah Singh comes to Skissernas Museum (Museum of Sketches for Public Art) in Lund to screen "A Million Rivers".  A Million Rivers - a contemporary black and white surrealist film work exploring Bertolt Brecht’s ‘alienation effect’ and the notion of expanded cinema. Radically re-inventing the geo-political narrative through themes

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Published 6 September 2017 Photo: Kennet Ruona SASNET already has experience in funding research projects after having funded the South Asia Media Project, coordinated by Andreas Mattsson. SASNET has now renewed its commitment to help develop exciting research projects at Lund University. The main goal with this initiative is to help researchers secure external funding for projects on South Asia a

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Published 6 September 2017 Photo from: https://religion.fsu.edu The Department of Religion at Florida State University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure track Assistant Professor in Religions of South Asia to begin on August 7, 2018. Specialization is open, but preference is for competency in Hindu and/or Buddhist traditions in India with an excellent command of Sanskrit and/or

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Published 11 September 2017 On Thursday 21 September 2017, 15-17 a Higher Seminar in Linguistics with the title "Language documentation and revitalization in northern Pakistan" was held at Stockholm University. Speakers were Fakhruddin Akhunzada, Naseem Haider and Muhammad Zaman Sagar (Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI) at Islamabad, Pakistan). The three seminar speakers work with a regional lan

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Published 11 September 2017 The Exeter South Asia Centre will host the 2018 British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference from Wednesday 18th April to Friday 20th April 2018 at the University of Exeter. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and practitioners involved with the cultu

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Published 11 September 2017 Northwestern University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor of modern South Asian history. Candidates must have their Ph.D. in hand before the start date of September 1, 2018. A letter of application, CV, writing sample (no longer than an article or dissertation chapter), and three letters of recommendation (sent separately) must be submitted electronica

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Published 14 September 2017 Photo: Jonas Andersson On Friday 15 September, Lund University celebrated its 350th anniversary together with staff and students. To start off the festivities, the USV Centres had a pre-party where SASNET researchers Admir Skodo and Maria Tonini, amongst other USV researchers, held mini talks to highlight the work and research of the USV. The pre-party and mini talks to

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Published 14 September 2017 Photo: lnu.se A one year Postdoc fellowship in colonial history is available at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Sweden. The last day of application is 15 October 2017. Context of position: The project ‘Huseby in the world’ (‘Huseby i världen’) engages with the unique collection of historical documents, the Joseph Stephens Archive, that encomp

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Published 14 September 2017 Photo: soscbaha.org The Seventh Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya organised by Social Science Baha, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council, Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS & Nepal Academic Network (Japan) will be hold 25-27 July 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Proposals are invited for stand-alone papers or three-pape

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Published 18 September 2017 On the 14th of September SASNET and the Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art in Lund, screened the movie "A Million Rivers". The event was well attended and the audience showed great interest at the Q&A session with the award-winning film artist Sarah Singh.

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Published 22 September 2017 If you are working on a MA or PhD thesis during Spring 2018 and need some inspiration, literature or simply just time to write on your thesis, then NIAS has something to offer: the Nordic Scholarship! The deadline for application is 1 October 2017. The Nordic Scholarship covers inexpensive travel to Copenhagen, two weeks board and accommodation plus a working place at N

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Published 22 September 2017 Photo from https://iias.asia/page/about-iias The Collège d’études mondiales of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden are glad to announce their partnership for a joint post-graduate fellowship, which includes a maximum number of ten months at IIAS, immediately followed by a stay of two mo

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Published 22 September 2017 Photo: https://www.ubc.ca/about/ The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in the history of the art, architecture and visual culture of South Asia. Applicants' research interests may include any hi

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Published 22 September 2017 Photo: https://www.utexas.edu/about/overview The Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track position in Hindi at the rank of Assistant Professor, anticipated to start in Fall 2018. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain a strong research profile while teaching a variety of courses at the underg

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Published 22 September 2017 Photo: https://www.bucknell.edu The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for the Josephine Hildreth Detmer & Zareen Taj Mirza Professorship in Islamic Studies, to begin in August 2018. The position can be filled at any rank from tenure-track assistant professor to full professor. The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell serv

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Published 26 September 2017 Photo from https://itu.edu.pk IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its interdisciplinary Centre for History and Politics and its think tank, the Centre for Governance and Policy. The centres complement the IT focus of the university through research cutting across various academic

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Published 26 September 2017 Photo: Mehrangarh Trust, Jodhpur, Rajasthan The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Ashoka University, India invites you to submit organized panels and roundtable proposals (no individual paper proposals accepted) to be presented at the fifth AAS-in-ASIA Conference to be held between the 5th and 8th of July, 2018 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. The

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