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SASNET currently has one affiliated researcher: » Andreas Johansson Find our latest publications

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers - 2025-12-21

Dr. Henrik Chetan Aspengren has a background in international studies and historical sociology, and holds since 2010 a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. His doctoral thesis concerned the formation and implementation of social policy in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Aspengren has continued to work at the intersection between mod

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/henrik-chetan-aspengren - 2025-12-21

  On 14-15 April 2018, SASNET hosted a workshop on Nationalisms in South Asia. The workshop was generously funded by the Crafoord Foundation. Professor Frank Korom (Boston University), Associate Professor Jan Magnusson (Lund University) and the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson took the lead in organizing the workshop.  The core idea of the workshop builds on a generation of scholarship arguing

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/workshop-nationalisms-south-asia-2018 - 2025-12-21

Anna Lindberg earned her Ph.D. in history from Lund University in 2001. She is the author of an interdisciplinary book of class, caste, and gender in the Indian state of Kerala from the 1930s to 2000. She has lived in India for many years and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvanathapuram. Her research combines qualitative life histories with archival sources to examin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/anna-lindberg - 2025-12-21

SASNET promotes educational and research collaborations between Lund University and partners in South Asia. Click in the left menu to find useful information. Education related news

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/education-and-research - 2025-12-21

Linnaeus-Palme is an Swedish exchange programme, introduced in May 2000, for teachers and students at undergraduate and master's level of higher education and aims at strengthening co-operation between institutions of higher education in Sweden and developing countries and thereby increasing global contacts in the world of higher education. The programme is administered by the International Progra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/exchange-programmes/linnaeus-palme-international-exchange-programme - 2025-12-21

SASNET invites students to apply for an internship. SASNET is a network at Lund University that promotes and encourages research and education on South Asia. SASNET organizes seminars, conferences, and offers grants to students who want to conduct fieldwork in South Asia. SASNET also offers grants to researchers who want to write an application for research projects on South Asia. As an intern at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/students/internship-sasnet - 2025-12-21

Manpreet K. Janeja holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India). Her work so far has focused on three major concerns that straddle the ‘public’ and ‘private’ domains: (1) normality/not-normality; (2) trust/mistrust/distrust; (3) waiting. Through the lens of ethnograph

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/manpreet-k-janeja - 2025-12-21

Parama Sinha Palit is a scholar of international relations based in Singapore. She holds a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India and specializes in study of foreign policies of India, China and other rising powers with particular focus on soft power, diplomacy, culture and communication in shaping foreign policies. Her book Analysing China’s Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/parama-sinha-palit - 2025-12-21

Vibodh Parthasarathi maintains a multidisciplinary interest in media policy and creative industries, his most recent work being the edited double-volume The Indian Media Economy (Oxford University Press 2018). Parthasarathi has been at the forefront of media policy research in India and a winner of numerous grants including from the Ford Foundation, Canada’s IDRC, Social Science Research Council,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/staff/sasnet-affiliated-researchers/vibodh-parthasarathi - 2025-12-21

SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during the fall 2016. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-12-21

On the behalf of the South Asia Initiative Jakob Hernborg Axelson did a report on the Swedish knowledge production on Asia over the last 10 years. The South Asia Initiative builds on a collaboration with the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). The initiative  brings out research and analysis on the countries of So

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/publications/sasnet-reports/report-asia-studies-sweden - 2025-12-21

SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars. After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking place June 11-12 at the Swedis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/south-asia-across-nordic-region-conference-2019 - 2025-12-21

SASA announces travel grants to Lund University students for fall semester 2016. The South Asian Students Association (SASA) at Lund University, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning for fieldwork in South Asia during the fall semester of 2016. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/sasa-announces-travel-grants-lund-university-students-fall-semester-2016 - 2025-12-21

Read Lars Eklund's report from the Media and Innovation Days After successfully organizing a first explorative workshop in the Sweden–South Asia Media Project at Lund University 19–20 October 2015, SASNET again arranged a similar explorative workshop this time in New Delhi, India during 7–9 December 2015. Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. A large crowd of Indian media researchers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/successful-media-workshop-new-delhi - 2025-12-21

Read Lars Eklund's report from the first workshop in the Sweden–South Asia Media Project SASNET is currently launching its South Asia Media Project. During 2015, the South Asia Media Project focuses on Indian media. Two explorative workshops are held, the first one at Lund University, Sweden, on 19–20 October; and the second in New Delhi, India, to be held 7–9 December. The aim is to highlight the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/media-workshop-lund-attracted-large-audience - 2025-12-21

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) organized a conference entitled “Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future of Everyday Life in South Asia” at Lund University on 20-22 September 2016. The conference attracted more than 60 researchers, many from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. South Asia has been described as in a state of flux. While it is part of the soaring ‘Asian

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/activities/previous-sasnet-events/conference-modernity-2016 - 2025-12-21

Handel Helsingborg (Retail Helsingborg) is a research project and its main purpose is to improve our understanding of consumers’ experiences and practices within retail contexts. The project is centered on Helsingborg and concerned with exploring opportunities and challenges in regional retail trade and urban environments.  The project is multidisciplinary and combines insights from economic, geog

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/research/research-groups/handel-helsingborg - 2025-12-21

Being a doctoral student at the department of service studies Doctoral education in Service Studies is interdisciplinary and focuses on services as an object of study. But what is it like being a doctoral student at our department, what can a normal working week look like and what kind of research areas are our doctoral students interested in? Read about our doctoral students research and every da

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/research/doctoral-studies/meet-our-doctoral-students - 2025-12-21

Marte Nehl, Doctoral student "My research is rather a niche at the department and addresses processes and practices of organizing in the cultural sector. " “SES is so many things and first of all a group of very different people with different disciplinary backgrounds, research areas and experiences. As for now, that has been very enriching and, despite the communication being mainly digital at th

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/research/doctoral-studies/meet-our-doctoral-students/job-lets-me-grow-many-ways - 2025-12-21