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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 engagement with Islamic traditions, examining their origin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/neh-summer-institute-honolulu - 2025-12-13

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 with dynamic teaching skills (especially

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professorship-it-university-punjab - 2025-12-13

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 one SA-related language and fluency in English; and mu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-fellowship-south-asian-studies-yale-university - 2025-12-13

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 tenure before the expiry of a second three-year

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professor-asian-urban-silk-road - 2025-12-13

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 Asia. Sydasien has existed on paper since 1977. I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-talks-about-her-research-sydasien - 2025-12-13

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 findings from his book Political Tolerance in the G

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-seminar-political-tolerance - 2025-12-13

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, Islamist militancy and the marginalization of Pakis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-seminar-religious-belonging-pakistan - 2025-12-13

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 theology of Ṭipū Sultān, a Muslim ruler in South India du

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-lecture-political-religious-transgression - 2025-12-13

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 that is constituted by many

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/7th-sseasr-conference-ho-chi-minh-city - 2025-12-13

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 in marginalising theory fr

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-global-social-theory-delhi - 2025-12-13

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 diversity unmatched by any other

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kolkata-conference-south-asia - 2025-12-13

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 aspects of Asian and Asian-Am

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nycas-annual-conference - 2025-12-13

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 knowledge and development of cross

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sargodha-conference-social-sciences - 2025-12-13

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 CHAM in 2016.CHAM invites s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/iii-cham-international-conference-lisbon - 2025-12-13

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 between the two rising powers a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/international-conference-india-and-china-contemporary-times - 2025-12-13

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 policy. Traditionally, inter

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/delhi-workshop-social-policy-developing-contexts - 2025-12-13

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 one of the world's largest c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/worlds-best-morning-digital-dos-and-donts - 2025-12-13

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 biases enable a continuou

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetcmes-lecture-counter-extremism-pakistan - 2025-12-13

Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda, PhD Scholars from School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, visited SASNET's office. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda are Erasmus + Visiting Doctoral Fellows at School of Social Work, Lund University from Jan, 2017 till May, 2017.Rishi Jha's doctoral thesis is on undomiciled migrants in urban spaces and it aims to explore negotiated citi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-scholars-tiss-visited-sasnet - 2025-12-13

The South Asia Collective produces the annual South Asia State of Minorities Report, on the condition of minorities in each country in the region and the quality of state provisioning for them. The South Asia Collective released their inaugural 2016 report regionally in Kathmandu in November last year and are releasing it globally at UN Human Rights Council's upcoming meet in Geneva in March '17.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-state-minorities-report - 2025-12-13