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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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
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 - 2025-12-23
On the 16th of December 2016, Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Murad Altamash is from Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine Karachi in Pakistan and his thesis is entitled: "Periodontal conditions and treatment outcomes for subjects with diabetes mellitus : special emphasis on HbA1c levels and T-cells". Go for the thesis.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/murad-altamash-defended-his-phd-thesis-karolinska - 2025-12-23
The scholarship application period has now started for The Lund University Global Scholarship and the deadline to apply is 15 February. Are you a non-EU/EEA student who applied to autumn 2017 Bachelor’s or Master’s studies? Check if you are eligible to apply for the Lund University Global Scholarship. The scholarship is merit-based and selective and can cover a part of or the entire tuition fee fo
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-global-scholarship - 2025-12-23
The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment and transfer of knowledge/
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2025-12-23
❔ Who is best positioned for mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine? ❔ When should such diplomatic efforts be launched? ❔ How should the processes of peace talks be designed? These are some of the questions examined in a new article by Isabel Bramsen from our department and Isak Svensson from Uppsala UniversityThe study examines the dynamics of the initial peace
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-when-who-and-how - 2025-12-23
In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change, Transition risks from pha
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-how-imf-addresses-climate-change - 2025-12-23
Associate Professor Julie Hassing Nielsen's and Associate Professor Agustin Goenaga's findings indicate that exposure to the economic costs of pandemic strategies was not only associated with more critical views towards public health measures, but that it also made citizens more likely to see them as violations to democratic rights. Popular science summary: Business owners in Denmark, experiencing
Political parties in Western Europe are more responsive to voters than you might think. Across seven key political issues, Ibenskas and Polk found that parties adjust their positions to better match public opinion. Using data from the Chapel Hill Expert Surveys, European Social Survey, and the European Election Study, the study reveals that parties listen to both their core supporters and the broa
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/do-political-parties-western-europe-listen-their-voters - 2025-12-23
Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-suggestion-of-clearing-out-gaza-adds-another-risk-to-an-already-fragile-ceasefire-248334Karin Aggestam’s website: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/karin-aggestam
How should the Russian war against Ukraine reshape the way we teach International Relations (IR) and European Union (EU) studies? In a groundbreaking new article, Professor Ian Manners argues that Ukraine serves as a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift—one that moves beyond traditional IR frameworks to embrace planetary politics. Published as the lead article in a special issue of the Journal of
The article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors that are organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry. This industry links states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Employing concepts from organizational theory and the study of legitimation in global governance, the article identifies discursive, institutional, and behavioral self-legiti
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-investment-citizenship-industry - 2025-12-23
Maysam Behravesh has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Political Psychology of Revisionist Behavior in World Politics: State Subjectivity, Ontological (In)Security, and Iranian Foreign Policy'. Congratulations Doctor Maysam! AbstractDriven by a core curiosity about the political psychology of change and change-seeking as opposed to continuity and status quo-keeping in world politics, this
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/maysam-behravesh-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-23
