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Former Professor emeritus in sociology at Lund University From 2000 to 2007, Lindberg founded and coordinated the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University. During this time, a number of collaborative research projects were stimulated, including support for meetings of South Asian sociologists in 2005.   In the fall of 1966 he studied Tamil at Annamalai University in Tamil Na

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/about-sasnet/brief-history-sasnet/former-directors/staffan-lindberg - 2025-12-23

Here SASNET puts up information about upcoming South Asian Conferences outside Lund. Read more in the left menu. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018 - 2025-12-23

22-23 September in New York, USA The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) on September 22-23, 2017 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, 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/nycas-annual-conference - 2025-12-23

STVP30 – European Governance (15 credits). Master course in Political Science. Autumn term. The aim of the course is (a) to convey a theory-based understanding of European governance, that is, the political system of the EU and its processes of policy-making and (b) encourage independent in-depth analysis of current key issues in European governance. The course is divided into two parts: an overvi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/programmes-and-courses/freestanding-courses/european-governance - 2025-12-23

UNDD01 – Intelligence Analysis, 3 credits, First Cycle. Do you want to try something new outside your main field of study or further deepen your knowledge? Lund University’s new x-courses are short, flexible, credit-earning courses that you can study in parallel with your programme. The course covers international intelligence cooperation between different states, as well as intelligence cooperati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/programmes-and-courses/freestanding-courses/intelligence-analysis-intelligence-cooperation-uncertain-world - 2025-12-23

STVD01 – Political Science, 3 Credits, First Cycle. Do you want to try something new outside your main field of study or further deepen your knowledge? Lund University’s new x-courses are short, flexible, credit-earning courses that you can study in parallel with your programme. Artificial intelligence (AI) is related to democracy in several respects. The characteristics of the technology, the glo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/programmes-and-courses/freestanding-courses/political-science-ai-and-democracy - 2025-12-23

Congratulations and welcome to the course STVD01! We are happy to welcome you to the Department of Political Science at Lund University. In order to accept and secure our offer please read the information below carefully. Secure your place Do not forget to accept our offer before December 15 midnight (Swedish time)! If you miss to reply by this date, the offer will be revoked.Accept our offer by l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/new-student-admission-information/political-science-ai-and-democracy - 2025-12-23

Congratulations and welcome to the course UNDD01! We are happy to welcome you to the Department of Political Science at Lund University. In order to accept and secure our offer please read the information below carefully. Secure your place Do not forget to accept our offer before December 15 midnight (Swedish time)! If you miss to reply by this date, the offer will be revoked.Accept our offer by l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/new-student-admission-information/intelligence-analysis-intelligence-cooperation-uncertain-world - 2025-12-23

STVM24 - (One Year) Master's Thesis in European Affairs (15 credits) The course implies that the students design and execute a scientific inquiry on their own.The students should identify a relevant research problem in the field of European Affairs, select an appropriate method, process a comprehensive theoretical and empirical material, and report the findings in the form of a written text.The wo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/masters-thesis-european-affairs-15-credits - 2025-12-23

4 February 2026 12:00 to 12:45 | Lecture/talk Traditionella fredsprocesser bygger ofta på idén om att parter ska nå samförstånd. Men inom fredsforskningen växer nu ett alternativt perspektiv fram – där fred inte förutsätter enighet, utan erkännande av den andre. Isabel Bramsen, docent i freds- och konfliktvetenskap vid Lunds universitet, berättar om begreppet "agonistisk fredsteori"  som är ett ny

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/crafoords-vetenskapsluncher-fred-utan-enighet - 2025-12-23

21 January 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science. The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cancelled-higher-research-seminar-sonia-bussu-birmingham-university-be-announced - 2025-12-23

Here we collect information about South Asian related conferences. Select the event you want to know more about in the left column.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/conferences - 2025-12-23

On 20–22 May 2015, SASNET successfully organised an international conference on ”South Asia in Transformation: World of Slums, Global Power Houses or Utopias?" with the sub-title ”Migration, Labour, and Family Changes in a Dynamic Region”. The three-day conference, generously funded by the Crafoord Foundation, Forte and the Swedish Research Council, was held in Lund. More than 70 researchers from

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/conference-structural-transformation-2015 - 2025-12-23

2017-2018 in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and UK Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/international-conference-comparative-peacebuilding - 2025-12-23

8 September in Edinburgh On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the past few years in South Asia. In India, critics argue t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-12-23

26-28 September 2017 in Perth, Australia The 2017 Women in Asia (WIA) conference will be held at the University of Western Australia on 26-28 September. Deadline for submissions is 31 March. The Women in Asia (WIA) Conference continues a tradition started by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Women’s Caucus (now Women’s Forum) in 1981.This will be the first time this Conference has

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/women-asia-conference-western-australia - 2025-12-23

The Sweden-South Asia Media Project aims to study and report on the growing digital media landscape in South Asia and link these results together with the development of the Swedish media landscape.   The project is carried out by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) in collaboration with the School of Journalism at Lund University in Sweden.  The project's objectives are: To create a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/former-research/former-projects/sweden-south-asia-media-project - 2025-12-23

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sweden-south-asia-media-project - 2025-12-23

24-27 July 2018 in Paris, France The 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) is scheduled for 24-27 July 2018 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. It is organized by the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud. The call for panels is now open and will close on 30 April 2017. If you would like to convene a panel at this conference, please submit your proposal v

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasnet-conferences/international-conferences-20172018/european-conference-south-asian-studies-ecsas - 2025-12-23

Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in IndiaBritta Ohm, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Per Ståhlberg(2019) Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 2019 10(3): 322-331Debunking False News : Inside and Outside the ClassroomVibodh Parthasarathi, Andreas Mattsson(2019) IIC Quarterly, 45 p.137-145A pop-up newsroom to fight fake news: a view from Swedish electionsAndreas Matts

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/current-research-projects/sweden-south-asia-media-project/articles - 2025-12-23